Vanderlei Luxemburgo

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Vanderlei Luxemburgo
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Personal information
Full name Vanderlei Luxemburgo da Silva
Date of birth May 10, 1952 (1952-05-10) (age 57)
Place of birth Nova Iguaçu, Brazil
Playing position Wingback
Club information
Current club Atlético-MG (head coach)
Youth career
1968–1970 Botafogo
Senior career*
Years Team Apps† (Gls)†
1971–1977 Flamengo
1978 Internacional
1979–1982 Botafogo
Teams managed
1983 Campo Grande
1983 Rio Branco
1984 Friburguense
1984 Al-Ittihad
1985 Democrata
1987 América
1989–1990 Bragantino
1991 Guarani
1991 Flamengo
1992–1993 Ponte Preta
1993–1995 Palmeiras
1995 Paraná
1995 Flamengo
1995–1996 Palmeiras
1997 Santos
1998 Corinthians
1998–2000 Brazil
2001 Corinthians
2002 Palmeiras
2002–2004 Cruzeiro
2004 Santos
2004–2005 Real Madrid
2006–2007 Santos
2008–2009 Palmeiras
2009 Santos
2010– Atlético-MG
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of July 18, 2009.

† Appearances (Goals).

‡ National team caps and goals correct as of July 18, 2009

Vanderlei Luxemburgo da Silva (born May 10, 1952, in Nova Iguaçu, Rio de Janeiro state), better known as Vanderlei Luxemburgo, is a Brazilian football manager and former football player. He holds the distinction of being the most successful manager in the history of Brazil's Série A, with 5 wins. He currently signed a contract to manage Atlético Mineiro in the Série A.

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[edit] Coaching career

Luxemburgo coached Brazil following the 1998 World Cup until the end of 2000 Olympics. Most notably, he is known for centering his play around Rivaldo. However, he is also notoriously remembered for the disastrous performance at the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney, where his team lost 1-2 in overtime to gold medal winners Cameroon despite having a two men advantage in that game. He was often blamed at this tournament for leaving out Romário, who had gone on national television, pleading his case to play in the tournament.

Luxemburgo also stirred up controversy by having transmission devices on his forward for his club team in a match. He claimed that the Cameroon match inspired him to create a device in order to tell his players where and when to attack. The CBF ruled days later that such electronic devices were illegal, but did not penalize him for using it in that match.

Luxemburgo started to be recognized as a top tier coach when he led Bragantino to be the winner of the 1990s Campeonato Paulista (São Paulo State Championship). Bragantino had always been a minor team in the State's league and the victory in the championship was perceived as a major achievement. In 1994 and 1995 he led Palmeiras to win the both the São Paulo State and Brazilian championships. When he left in 1995, Palmeiras performance was visibly reduced, and when he came back in 1996 the team won the São Paulo State championship again. In 2003, he led Cruzeiro Esporte Clube to win the the Brazilian National League. Even more impressively, the club managed to win two of the three competitions (the Campeonato Mineiro and the Copa do Brasil) without losing a single match. The following year he led Santos to win the Brazilian Championship.

[edit] Real Madrid

Luxemburgo was hired as Real Madrid's coach from Santos in the second half of the 2004/2005 season when Mariano García Remón was dismissed from the job.[1] He led Real Madrid to seven consecutive league wins, putting them back in the title race but ended up losing it 4 points behind FC Barcelona.


In the following season, Real Madrid started brightly. However, the introduction of a new formation (the Magic Rectangle, a 4-2-2-2 formation), combined with multiple injury issues and poor performances began Luxemburgo's downfall. Calls for him to resign were intensified by a humiliating 0-3 home defeat to their rivals, Barcelona. He was sacked on 5 December 2005 [2] ,Real Madrid announced Juan Ramón López Caro would be his successor.

[edit] Santos

Luxemburgo left Real Madrid to sign for the third time a contract with Santos, he did pretty good job and Santos won in 2006 the São Paulo State Championship, later finished 4th in the Série A.

He continued with Santos in 2007 and won the São Paulo State Championship again. He also managed Santos to reach the semi-finals in the Copa Libertadores 2007, winning all the matches in the group stage and eliminating strong teams, such as Caracas in the round of 16 and América in the quarter-finals, before losing to Grêmio in the semis. Later Luxemburgo finished 2nd in the Série A. In both years, 2006 and 2007, he achieved a place for Santos in the Copa Libertadores for 2007 and 2008.

[edit] Palmeiras

In the end of 2007, Luxemburgo left Santos. He signed with Palmeiras in 2008, and won for the third time consecutively the São Paulo State Championship in the beginning of the year defeating in the final Ponte Preta by 5-0 in the aggregated score.

With Palmeiras he was eliminated from the Sudamericana by Argentinos Juniors and from the Brazilian Cup by Sport Recife the eventual champions. In the 2008 Série A he achieved the 4th place with Palmeiras in a very competitive season and achieved a place in the Libertadores for the following year.

Luxemburgo remained with Palmeiras in 2009. He managed the team to a victorious campaign in the São Paulo State Championship but lost to Santos in the semi-finals. In the Copa Libertadores he conquered a place in the Round of 16 by defeating Colo-Colo 1-0 in Santiago, with Cleiton Xavier scoring a last minute long-range goal in the angle of Colo-Colo's Goalkeeper. Palmeiras defeated Sport Recife on penalties in the Round of 16, but were eliminated by an away goal from Nacional from Uruguay drawing both matches, by 1-1 at home and 0-0 away.

In the 2009 Série A Luxemburgo started well in the competition, but after an incident involving young striker Keirrison, Luxemburgo was dismissed from Palmeiras in the 7th round of the competition.

He was re-signed as Head Coach of Santos after a one and a half year absence on July 17, 2009[3] and on 07 December 2009 the coach has quit Santos, finishing 12th in the league, to sign with Atlético-MG [4].

[edit] Assistant coach

[edit] U-20 coach

[edit] Honors

[edit] References

  1. ^ "Luxemburgo named Madrid coach". BBC Sport. 2004-12-30. http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/football/europe/4134721.stm. Retrieved 2009-08-20. 
  2. ^ "Real Madrid sack coach Luxemburgo". BBC Sport. 2005-12-04. http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/football/europe/4497208.stm. Retrieved 2009-08-20. 
  3. ^ Luxemburgo coacht Santos
  4. ^ Vanderlei Luxemburgo estuda propostas de três times

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