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With the return of King Kenny to Liverpool and the success Sir Roberto has been having with City, a question
has popped into my head: How many successful players at elite level clubs have also gone on to have similar
success managing at the highest level of play? (Either club or country is fine)

Here are a few from my own limited sports knowledge: (Wikipedia)

[Including the above]

Franz Beckenbauer: Bayern-Munich (Bundeslegia) 1994 (UEFA Cup) 1996 West Germany (WC) 1990

Johan Cryuff: Ajax (KNVB Cup) 1986, 1987 (UEFA Cup Winner's Cup) 1987

Barcelona (La Liga) 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994 European Cup: 1992


(Although Mancini didn't feature in as much international competition as the others: I doubt this was because of his lack of talent. more an unfortunate run-in with national team politics.) Remember if a player repeats his elite level of success coaching for high club play or at international level, that is all I am looking for.

Guardiola

Ahhhh!!! Can't believe I forgot that one. Forgot he played on the 1992 Barca team.

Van Gaal
Capello
Dunga
Ancelotti

Reijkard

Kladze wrote:Van Gaal
Capello
Dunga
Ancelotti

Dunga? Hardly had success as a manager.

the_georgian_genius wrote:

Kladze wrote:Van Gaal
Capello
Dunga
Ancelotti

Dunga? Hardly had success as a manager.

True enough - for some reason I was thinking he'd managed a world cup winning team - he only skippered one :-D
I'm more tired than I think I am

Kladze wrote:

the_georgian_genius wrote:

Kladze wrote:Van Gaal
Capello
Dunga
Ancelotti

Dunga? Hardly had success as a manager.

True enough - for some reason I was thinking he'd managed a world cup winning team - he only skippered one :-D
I'm more tired than I think I am

Was going to add Ancellotti myself until i read again that it was an elite player, otherwise you could add Rikyard in there aswell.

One that always amazed me is Brian Clough, what a record he had as a goalscorer, his success as manager overshadowed his stunning career that was cut short by injury.

Steve Bruce

Ian Holloway

Alan Ball

Hoddle ... he did well at Chelsea before getting the England job

CitizenYank wrote:With the return of King Kenny to Liverpool and the success Sir Roberto has been having with City, a question
has popped into my head: How many successful players at elite level clubs have also gone on to have similar
success managing at the highest level of play? (Either club or country is fine)

Here are a few from my own limited sports knowledge: (Wikipedia)

[Including the above]

Franz Beckenbauer: Bayern-Munich (Bundeslegia) 1994 (UEFA Cup) 1996 West Germany (WC) 1990

Johan Cryuff: Ajax (KNVB Cup) 1986, 1987 (UEFA Cup Winner's Cup) 1987

Barcelona (La Liga) 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994 European Cup: 1992


(Although Mancini didn't feature in as much international competition as the others: I doubt this was because of his lack of talent. more an unfortunate run-in with national team politics.) Remember if a player repeats his elite level of success coaching for high club play or at international level, that is all I am looking for.

mancini's certainly wasnt lack of talent [youtube]KtyYzVefeRc[/youtube]

Current spanish national team manager vicente del bosque-what about this for a record
As a player he won 5 spanish league titles in a row with real madrid also 4 copa del ray titles
As manager of real he won -the intercontinental cup (1)
the champions league (2)
the uefa super cup (1)
La liga (2)
the spanish super cup (1)
Copa iberoamericana (1)
and as spanish national team coach-1 world cup i dont think hes done a bad job really

nice youtube clip but at 3 13 is that jay leno in the left hand corner!

Matt Busby.

Ted Hughes wrote:Matt Busby.

Yep the dirty cunt also achieved greatness in my book by gettin that plane to fuck up whilst sneakily getting out ok job well done you could learn from this lad Fergiescum are you watchin? You get your own statue n everythin

Ruthless wrote:

Ted Hughes wrote:Matt Busby.

Yep the dirty cunt also achieved greatness in my book by gettin that plane to fuck up whilst sneakily getting out ok job well done you could learn from this lad Fergiescum are you watchin? You get your own statue n everythin

???
What kind of shit is that?

Chinners wrote:Hoddle ... he did well at Chelsea before getting the England job

He did well at Swindon too. In fact when I've seen him on telly lately he talks sound, common sense.

It just went a bit wrong with England, Gazza and all that Eileen Drury nonsense.

With regard to the Hoddle issue, it wasn't football reasons that caused him to lose the England job.
For whatever reason, it was the media that dictated what happened to Hoddle.
...and for the record, his spiritual beliefs were well known and had been reported quite non judgementally, on many occasions previously. The media just chose the time and the vehemence to have him hanged, drawn and ridiculed.