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Contranos
26 Jul 2006, 11:41 AM
I can't think of a time a foreign coach took a team to WC glory. Has a foreign coach even made it to the final game?
spoonman
27 Jul 2006, 11:48 AM
Ernst Happel was close losing the final in '78
mexicano
27 Jul 2006, 07:59 PM
I can't think of a time a foreign coach took a team to WC glory. Has a foreign coach even made it to the final game?
Never. i've heard it on a sports show that a coach has never won a WC for a country thats not his own . i dont know if they've made it to the final though
AllWhitebeliever
29 Jul 2006, 10:19 AM
mmm... not the finals.
Im not sure of the recent WC but i did noticed one time during 1994 and in some previous WCs, that outside the major soccer nations, there was heaps of UK (mainly English) and Brazilian coaches coaching the second tier nations that had upsets or advance to an extra stage that they would have never been before. Although in the last two WCs there has been some Dutch coaches that have made a strong impression.
:cool:
Hang Loose Guys
Excape Goat
30 Jul 2006, 11:24 AM
Never. i've heard it on a sports show that a coach has never won a WC for a country thats not his own . i dont know if they've made it to the final though
Ernst Happel was Austrian as mentioned above. He took Holland to WC 1978 Final.
Gregoriak
30 Jul 2006, 11:49 AM
Britishman George Raynor managed Sweden when they reached the 1958 World Cup final.