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{{Short description|Argentine-French footballer and manager (1910–1997)}}
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{{family name hatnote|Herrera|Gavilán|lang=Spanish}}
{{Infobox football biography
| name = Helenio Herrera
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| caption = Herrera with [[Inter Milan]] during the 1973–74 season
| fullname = Helenio Herrera Gavilán
| birth_date = {{birth date|1910|4|10|df=y}}
| birth_place = [[Buenos Aires]], Argentina
| death_date = {{death date and age|1997|11|9|1910|4|17|df=y}}
| death_place = [[Venice]], Italy
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| position = [[Centre-back|Central defender]]
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| clubs1 = Roches Noires
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| years2 = 1931–1932
| clubs2 = [[Racing de Casablanca]]
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| years3 = 1932–1933
| clubs3 = [[CASG Paris]]
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| years4 = 1933–1935
| clubs4 = [[Stade Français (association football)|Stade Français]]
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| years5 = 1935–1937
| clubs5 = [[OFC Charleville|Charleville]]
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| years6 = 1937–1939
| clubs6 = [[Excelsior AC (France)|Excelsior Roubaix]]
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| years7 = 1940–1942
| clubs7 = [[Red Star FC|Red Star Olympique]]
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| years8 = 1942–1943
| clubs8 = [[Stade Français (association football)|Stade Français]]
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| years9 = 1943–1944
| clubs9 = EF Paris-Capitale
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| clubs10 = Puteaux
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| manageryears1 = 1944–1945
| managerclubs1 = Puteaux
| manageryears2 = 1945–1948
| managerclubs2 = [[Stade Français (association football)|Stade Français]]
| manageryears3 = 1948–1949
| managerclubs3 = [[Real Valladolid]]
| manageryears4 = 1949–1952
| managerclubs4 = [[Atlético Madrid]]
| manageryears5 = 1952
| managerclubs5 = [[CD Málaga|Málaga]]
| manageryears6 = 1953
| managerclubs6 = [[Deportivo de La Coruña]]
| manageryears7 = 1953–1957
| managerclubs7 = [[Sevilla FC|Sevilla]]
| manageryears8 = 1957–1958
| managerclubs8 = [[C.F. Os Belenenses|Belenenses]]
| manageryears9 = 1958–1960
| managerclubs9 = [[FC Barcelona|Barcelona]]
| manageryears10 = 1959–1960
| managerclubs10 = [[Spain national football team|Spain]]
| manageryears11 = 1960–1968
| managerclubs11 = [[Inter Milan]]
| manageryears12 = 1966–1967
| managerclubs12 = [[Italy national football team|Italy]]
| manageryears13 = 1968–1970
| managerclubs13 = [[A.S. Roma|Roma]]
| manageryears14 = 1971–1972
| managerclubs14 = [[A.S. Roma|Roma]]
| manageryears15 = 1973–1974
| managerclubs15 = [[Inter Milan]]
| manageryears16 = 1978–1979
| managerclubs16 = [[Rimini Calcio F.C.|Rimini]]
| manageryears17 = 1979–1981
| managerclubs17 = [[FC Barcelona|Barcelona]]
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'''Helenio Herrera Gavilán''' ({{IPA|es|eˈlenjo eˈreɾa ɣaβiˈlan}}; 10 April 1910  – 9 November 1997) was an Argentine-French [[association football|football]] player and [[Manager (association football)|manager]]. He is best remembered for his success with the [[Inter Milan]] team known as ''[[Inter Milan#Grande Inter (1960–1967)|Grande Inter]]'' in the 1960s.

During his managerial career, Herrera won four [[La Liga]] titles in Spain (with [[Atlético Madrid]] and [[FC Barcelona|Barcelona]]) and three [[Serie A]] titles in Italy with Inter. He also guided Inter to European glory, winning two consecutive [[UEFA Champions League|European Cups]], among several other honours. He is regarded as one of the greatest managers of all time.<ref name="espn">{{cite web|url=http://www.espnfc.com/atletico-madrid/story/1511247/greatest-managersno-5-helenio-herrera|title=Greatest Managers, No. 5: Herrera|date=8 August 2013|publisher=ESPN FC|access-date=7 February 2015}}</ref>

Herrera was arguably the first manager to collect credit for his teams' performances,<ref>[https://punditfeed.com/long-reads/helenio-herrera-legacy/ Helenio Herrera: Perfector of Catenaccio and Architect of La Grande Inter] ''Punditfeed.com'', 7 April 2020</ref><ref>[https://cultofcalcio.com/helenio-herrera-the-wizard-of-grande-inter Throwback Thursday: Helenio Herrera, The Wizard of Grande Inter] ''Cultofcalcio.com'', Abdullah Bashiti 3 June 2020</ref> in the process becoming a superstar in the world of football. Up to that time, managers were more marginal figures in a team. All teams throughout Europe were known for their headline-grabbing individual players, e.g. ''[[Alfredo Di Stéfano|Di Stéfano]]'s [[Real Madrid CF|Real Madrid]]'', whereas Inter during the 1960s is still referred to as ''Herrera's Inter''.

==Early life and playing career==
Herrera was born in 1910 in [[Buenos Aires]], Argentina, to immigrant parents from Spain. His father Francisco, who worked as a carpenter, was an exiled [[anarchist]] originally from [[Andalusia]]. His mother, Maria Gavilán Martínez, was a cleaner.<ref name="legacy">{{Cite web|url=http://thesefootballtimes.co/2015/12/17/the-incomparable-legacy-of-helenio-herrera/|title = The incomparable legacy of Helenio Herrera|date = 17 December 2015}}</ref> In 1920, Herrera's family left Argentina for [[Casablanca]], in what was then [[French protectorate in Morocco|French Morocco]], in search of a better life. In Casablanca, Herrera started his career as a footballer.<ref name="legacy"/>

Playing as a [[central defender]], in 1932 the 22-year-old Herrera earned a transfer from [[Racing de Casablanca|RC Casablanca]] to mainland France, to CASG in Paris.
Before the onset of [[World War II]], Herrera (or "H.H." as he was known) had spells at several French clubs. From 1933 to 1935 he was at [[Stade Français Football|Stade Français]], from 1935 to 1937 at [[FCO Charleville]] (where he was called up for the [[France national football team|France national team]] twice), and at [[Excelsior Roubaix]] from 1937 to 1939.

During the war, he played for five years at [[Red Star F.C.|Red Star Paris]], Stade Français, EF Paris-Capitale and Puteaux, where he started his managing career in 1944 as a player-manager, before retiring from playing in 1945, at 35 years of age. While he spent his career playing for established French clubs, Herrera did not win any notable silverware. His managing career, which coincided with the early beginnings of [[UEFA]] competitions, had a marked effect on the game's tactical development.

==Managing career==
After his first season in Puteaux, Herrera rejoined Stade Français for a third time, now as manager. After three seasons with no trophies collected, the club's president opted to sell the club. Herrera moved to Spain, where he spent the next six years with [[Real Valladolid]], [[Atlético Madrid]] (where he won [[La Liga]] in 1950 and 1951), [[CD Málaga|Málaga]], [[Deportivo de La Coruña]] and [[Sevilla FC|Sevilla]], before moving to [[Portugal]] and a two-year tenure with [[Lisbon]] side [[CF Os Belenenses|Belenenses]]. Later, returning to Spain, he managed giants [[FC Barcelona|Barcelona]], where he won various titles (including La Liga, twice), but several problems, including disagreements between him and star player [[Ladislao Kubala]], forced him to leave the club in 1960.<ref name=Obituary>{{cite news|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/obitaury-helenio-herrera-1293412.html |title=Obituary: Helenio Herrera – Obituaries, News |work=The Independent |location=UK |first=Norman |last=Fox |date= 11 November 1997|access-date=22 April 2011 }}</ref>

[[File:1973–74 Inter Milan - Sandro Mazzola and Helenio Herrera.jpg|thumb|left|250px|[[Sandro Mazzola]] and Herrera with Inter Milan in 1973]]
He immediately emigrated to Italy and signed with [[Inter Milan]] (where he was to remain until 1968), winning three [[Serie A]] titles and two [[UEFA Champions League|European Cups]] during his stay with the club, where he used a 5–3–2 formation, and modified a tactic known as the ''Verrou'' (door bolt) – used by [[Karl Rappan]] – to include larger flexibility for counter-attacks; thus, the ''[[Catenaccio]]'' system was born. The side was later nicknamed ''Grande Inter'', due to the club's successes under Herrera's eight–year spell, which saw the team win back–to–back [[UEFA Champions League|European Cup]] titles in [[1964 European Cup Final|1964]] and [[1965 European Cup Final|1965]], as well as three [[Serie A]] titles, and two [[Intercontinental Cup (football)|Intercontinental Cup]] titles.<ref name=Obituary/><ref name="Profilo: Helenio Herrera">{{cite web |url=https://it.uefa.com/uefachampionsleague/news/0231-0e94dc2f87d8-92b9107d1dd6-1000--profilo-helenio-herrera/ |title=Profilo: Helenio Herrera |publisher=UEFA.com |language=it |date=4 September 2016 |access-date=22 May 2020 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.si.com/soccer/2019/08/07/helenio-herrera-innovator-who-single-handedly-changed-beautiful-game |title=Helenio Herrera: The Innovator Who Single-Handedly Changed the Beautiful Game |publisher=Sports Illustrated |date=7 August 2019 |access-date=22 May 2020 }}</ref> During this time he was also coaching [[Spain national football team|Spain]] (between 1959 and 1962) and [[Italy national football team|Italy]] (1966–67).<ref name=Obituary/>

In 1968, Herrera moved to [[A.S. Roma|Roma]], where he became the highest paid manager in the world, with a contract worth an estimated £150,000 per year. He won the [[Coppa Italia]] in his first season, but relations with club president Alvaro Marchini had already soured over the tragic death of his centre-forward [[Giuliano Taccola]] in the team dressing room at an away game against [[Cagliari]]. The following season, 1969–70, erratic results in the league gave Marchini the excuse to sack him.

He returned to management for a one-year stint with Inter for the 1973–74 season. Herrera then suffered a heart attack, did not want to coach full-time any more and retired in Venice, where he lived the rest of his life. While inactive between 1974 and 1978, Herrera returned briefly during the end of the decade, managing [[Rimini Calcio|Rimini]], and finally ending his career with a return to Barcelona for one-and-a-half seasons in 1980 and 1981.

==Manager profile==
===Influence===
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[[File:Monzon herrera lorenzo.jpg|thumb|right|250px|Herrera (center) along with boxer [[Carlos Monzón]] (left) and colleague [[Juan Carlos Lorenzo]]]]
He pioneered the use of psychological motivating skills – his pep-talk phrases are still quoted today, e.g. "he who doesn't give it all, gives nothing", "with ten our team plays better than with eleven" (after his team had to face the second half of a game with only ten players on the field) and "Class + Preparation + Intelligence + Athleticism = Championships". These slogans were often plastered on billboards around the ground and chanted by players during training sessions.

He also enforced a strict discipline code, for the first time forbidding players to drink or smoke and controlling their diet – once at Inter, he suspended a player after telling the press "we came to play in Rome" instead of "we came to <u>win</u> in Rome". He also sent club personnel to players' homes during the week to perform '"bed-checks."{{citation needed|date=December 2015}} He introduced the ''ritiro'', a pre-match remote country hotel retreat that started with the collection of players on Thursday to prepare for a Sunday game.

He was also one of the first managers to call on the support of the "twelfth player" – the spectators. While indirectly, this led to the appearance of the first ''[[Ultras]]'' movements in the late 60s. While defensive in nature, his understanding of the ''[[Catenaccio]]'' was slightly different from that practised by other Italian teams and the original ''Verrou'', as he often used the [[Left back|full back]]s (particularly [[Giacinto Facchetti]]) as [[Wing-half|half backs]] (defensively supported by the [[Libero (football)|libero]]) to launch faster counter-attacks, a staple of Italian tactics – yet, he never denied the heart of his team relied on defence.

In 2004, Herrera's widow Fiora Gandolfi (his third wife) released a book called ''Tacalabala''. In it, were collected sayings, sketches and notes from Herrera's notebooks and journals.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.fioragandolfi.it/books/tacal.htm |title=Fiora Gandofi – books |language=it |publisher=Fioragandolfi.it |date=29 April 2010 |access-date=22 April 2011}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://fourfourtwo.com/blogs/championsleague/archive/2010/01/20/herrera-s-creative-engine-room-god-freud-and-yoga.aspx |title=Herrera's creative engine room: God, Freud and Yoga – Professor Champions League |publisher=FourFourTwo |date=20 January 2010 |access-date=22 April 2011 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110718064126/http://fourfourtwo.com/blogs/championsleague/archive/2010/01/20/herrera-s-creative-engine-room-god-freud-and-yoga.aspx |archive-date=18 July 2011}}</ref>

===Tactics and style of management===
Herrera's standard formation at Inter was the [[Formation (association football)#5.E2.80.933.E2.80.932|5–3–2]] system, which almost always included a [[Sweeper (association football)|sweeper]] (usually the team's [[Captain (association football)|captain]], [[Armando Picchi]]), as well as four man-marking defenders.<ref name=Mago>{{cite web|url=http://www.sempreinter.com/2012/10/15/la-grande-inter-helenio-herrera-1910-1997-il-mago/|title=La Grande Inter: Helenio Herrera (1910-1997) – "Il Mago"|date=15 October 2012|publisher=Sempre Inter|language=it|access-date=10 September 2014}}</ref> He was openly dismissive of teams that had an obsession for dominating [[ball possession]], declaring that "the ball always moves further, and more quickly, when there isn't a player behind it".<ref name="legacy"/>

Although Herrera's Barcelona side was known for playing a fluid, attacking brand of football, his pragmatic ''Catenaccio'' tactics at Inter were often criticised for producing few goals, and for being dull, overly defensive, or even destructive;<ref name=Obituary/> Herrera and several of Inter's players at the time refuted these claims, however,<ref name=Obituary/> with Herrera later stating: "The problem is that most of the ones who copied me copied me wrongly. They forgot to include the attacking principles that my ''Catenaccio'' included. I had Picchi as a sweeper, yes, but I also had Facchetti, the first full-back to score as many goals as a forward".<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.italianfootballdaily.com/arrigo-sacchi-is-right-only-italy-accepts-defensive-football/ |title=Arrigo Sacchi is right, only Italy accepts defensive football {{!}} IFD |website=www.italianfootballdaily.com |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160307194027/http://www.italianfootballdaily.com/arrigo-sacchi-is-right-only-italy-accepts-defensive-football/ |archive-date=7 March 2016}}</ref>

Aside from the team's defensive strength and organisation when defending behind the ball, some of the key elements of Herrera's ''Grande Inter'' side of the 1960s were the use of vertical football and very quick, efficient [[counter-attacks]], which allowed the team to score with few touches.<ref name="Helenio Herrera: More than just catenaccio">{{cite web|url=https://www.fifa.com/fifa-tournaments/players-coaches/people=61622/profile.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170116143638/http://www.fifa.com/fifa-tournaments/players-coaches/people=61622/profile.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=16 January 2017|title=Helenio Herrera: More than just catenaccio|website=www.fifa.com|publisher=FIFA.com|access-date=10 September 2014}}</ref> This was made possible due to Herrera's use of very quick and energetic, attacking full-backs, such as [[Giacinto Facchetti]], and [[Tarcisio Burgnich]], who would often detach themselves from the back-line, and catch their opponents by surprise with their overlapping runs.<ref name="Helenio Herrera: More than just catenaccio"/> Furthermore, the team's main creative force, Spanish deep-lying playmaker [[Luis Suárez (footballer, born 1935)|Luis Suárez]], played a fundamental part in Inter's success during this period, due to his outstanding work-rate, technical skills, vision and passing range; these attributes enabled him to aid the team to win back possession, and subsequently launch quick attacks with accurate long balls out to the on-running full-backs, who would often go on either to score or assist the strikers.<ref name="Helenio Herrera: More than just catenaccio"/><ref>{{cite web|url=http://bleacherreport.com/articles/1606149-great-team-tactics-breaking-down-helenio-herreras-la-grande-inter|title=Great Team Tactics: Breaking Down Helenio Herrera's 'La Grande Inter'|publisher=Bleacher Report|access-date=10 September 2014}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.fifa.com/world-match-centre/news/newsid/707/431/index.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140222165048/http://www.fifa.com/world-match-centre/news/newsid/707/431/index.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=22 February 2014|title=Mazzola: Inter is my second family|publisher=FIFA.com|access-date=11 September 2014}}</ref>

After successive European Cups in 1964 and 1965,<ref name=Obituary/> Helenio Herrera's ''Catenaccio'' style of play suffered a massive blow in the [[1967 European Cup Final|1967]] final in Lisbon, when they came up against Scottish champions [[Celtic F.C.|Celtic]] of [[Glasgow]], – nicknamed the [[Lisbon Lions]] – who consisted of a group of players who were all born within 30 miles of Celtic's home ground, [[Celtic Park]]. Celtic won the game 2–1 after coming back from a seventh-minute [[Sandro Mazzola|Mazzola]] penalty, with many pundits claiming this was a "victory for football" against the defensively-destructive ''Catenaccio''.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/football/1967/may/25/championsleague.sport |title=Relentless attack captures European Cup |work=The Guardian |date=25 May 1967 |access-date=28 November 2011 |location=London |first=Albert |last=Barham }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/competitions/scottish-premier/3005452/Murdoch-the-true-Lionheart.html |title=Murdoch the true Lionheart |publisher=The Telegraph |date=15 May 2001 |access-date=7 April 2012 |location=London |first=Roddy |last=Forsyth }}</ref><ref name="Chris Hunt">{{cite news |url=http://www.chrishunt.biz/features40.html |title=LOCAL HEROES: THE LISBON LIONS |publisher=Chris Hunt |date=June 2007 |access-date=13 November 2011 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/scotland/sportscotland/asportingnation/article/0045/print.shtml |title=Celtic win European Cup 1967 |publisher=BBC Sport |access-date=21 May 2020 }}</ref>

==Trivia==
{{Trivia section|date=June 2020}}
Helenio Herrera was nicknamed ''il Mago'' (the Wizard) and ''H.H.'' (from the initials of his name) by Italian sports journalists (who recognised him as one of the finest coaches in Italian football history), due to his success and tactical prowess, and because on occasion he would provocatively announce the results of Sunday's games, and often his prediction turned out to be correct.<ref name=Mago/><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.inter.it/it/societa/storia2005-2.html |title=La leggenda della Grande Inter|trans-title=The legend of the Grande Inter|publisher=Inter.it|language=it|access-date=10 September 2014 |url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121019213304/http://www.inter.it/it/societa/storia2005-2.html|archive-date=19 October 2012}}</ref>

==Personal life==

Herrera had 8 children, while also being married to 3 wives. His children are Francis (1937), Hélène (1938), Linda (1941), Daniéle (1942), Helenio Angel (1952), Rocío (1957), Helios (1972) and Luna (1974), with the latter one being adopted. Herrera had 3 sons and 5 daughters. 5 were born in [[France]], 2 in [[Spain]] and one of them in [[Italy]].

==Managerial statistics==
{{updated|match played on 24 March 2023}}

{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center"
 |+ Managerial record by team and tenure
|-
!rowspan="2"|Team
!rowspan="2"|Nat
!rowspan="2"|From
!rowspan="2"|To
!colspan="8"|Record
|-
!{{Tooltip|G|Games managed}}
!{{Tooltip|W|Games won}}
!{{Tooltip|D|Games drawn}}
!{{Tooltip|L|Games lost}}
!{{Tooltip|Win %|Winning percentage}}
|-
|align=left|[[Stade Français Paris (football)|Stade Français]]
|{{flagicon|FRA}}
|align=left|5 August 1945
|align=left|30 June 1948
{{WDL|122|70|22|30}}
|-
|align=left|[[Real Valladolid]]
|{{flagicon|Spain}}
|align=left|4 July 1948
|align=left|22 June 1949
{{WDL|26|10|2|14}}
|-
|align=left|[[Atlético Madrid]]
|{{flagicon|Spain}}
|align=left|23 June 1949
|align=left|28 December 1952
{{WDL|115|55|19|41}}
|-
|align=left|[[Deportivo de La Coruña]]
|{{flagicon|Spain}}
|align=left|19 January 1953
|align=left|19 July 1953
{{WDL|21|9|3|9}}
|-
|align=left|[[Sevilla FC|Sevilla]]
|{{flagicon|Spain}}
|align=left|1 August 1953
|align=left|28 July 1957
{{WDL|138|72|16|50}}
|-
|align=left|[[C.F. Os Belenenses|Belenenses]]
|{{flagicon|Portugal}}
|align=left|13 August 1957
|align=left|25 April 1958
{{WDL|19|9|4|6}}
|-
|align=left|[[FC Barcelona|Barcelona]]
|{{flagicon|Spain}}
|align=left|25 April 1958
|align=left|30 May 1960
{{WDL|94|71|10|13}}
|-
|align=left|[[Inter Milan]]
|{{flagicon|ITA}}
|align=left|9 July 1960
|align=left|30 June 1968
{{WDL|343|194|86|63}}
|-
|align=left|[[Spain national football team|Spain]]
|{{flagicon|Spain}}
|align=left|13 March 1959
|align=left|21 April 1960
{{WDL|6|5|0|1}}
|-
|align=left|Spain
|{{flagicon|Spain}}
|align=left|26 May 1962
|align=left|7 June 1962
{{WDL|3|1|0|2}}
|-
|align=left|[[Italy national football team|Italy]] (Technical Commission)
|{{flagicon|ITA}}
|align=left|1 November 1966
|align=left|2 March 1967
{{WDL|4|3|1|0}}
|-
|align=left|[[A.S. Roma|Roma]]
|{{flagicon|ITA}}
|align=left|9 July 1968
|align=left|5 April 1971
{{WDL|114|37|47|30}}
|-
|align=left|Roma
|{{flagicon|ITA}}
|align=left|29 August 1971
|align=left|10 April 1973
{{WDL|62|23|20|19}}
|-
|align=left|Inter Milan
|{{flagicon|ITA}}
|align=left|19 July 1973
|align=left|5 February 1974
{{WDL|24|12|7|5}}
|-
|align=left|[[Rimini Calcio F.C.|Rimini]]
|{{flagicon|ITA}}
|align=left|5 March 1979
|align=left|30 April 1979
{{WDL|8|1|3|4}} 
|-
|align=left|Barcelona
|{{flagicon|Spain}}
|align=left|6 March 1980
|align=left|18 June 1980
{{WDL|13|6|4|3}}
|-
|align=left|Barcelona
|{{flagicon|Spain}}
|align=left|6 November 1980
|align=left|12 June 1981
{{WDL|36|24|6|6}}
|-
!colspan="4"|Total
{{WDLtot|1148|602|250|296}}
|}

==Honours==

===Manager===
'''Atlético Madrid'''
*[[La Liga]]: [[1949–50 La Liga|1949–50]], [[1950–51 La Liga|1950–51]]
*[[Copa Eva Duarte]]: 1951

'''Sevilla'''
*[[La Liga]] runner-up: [[1956–57 La Liga|1956-57]]
*[[Copa del Rey]] runner-up: [[1955 Copa del Generalísimo final|1954-55]]

'''Barcelona'''
*[[La Liga]]: [[1958–59 La Liga|1958–59]], [[1959–60 La Liga|1959–60]]
*[[Copa del Rey]]: [[Copa del Rey|1958–59]], [[Copa del Rey|1980–81]]
*[[Inter-Cities Fairs Cup]]: [[1958–60 Inter-Cities Fairs Cup|1958–60]]

'''Inter Milan'''
*[[Coppa Italia]] runner-up: [[1965 Coppa Italia final|1964-65]]
*[[Serie A]]: [[Serie A 1962–63|1962–63]], [[Serie A 1964–65|1964–65]], [[Serie A 1965–66|1965–66]]
*[[UEFA Champions League|European Cup]]: [[1963–64 European Cup|1963–64]], [[1964–65 European Cup|1964–65]]
*[[Intercontinental Cup (football)|Intercontinental Cup]]: [[1964 Intercontinental Cup|1964]], [[1965 Intercontinental Cup|1965]]

'''Roma'''
*[[Coppa Italia]]: [[1968–69 Coppa Italia|1968–69]]
*[[Anglo-Italian Cup]]: [[1972 Anglo-Italian Cup|1972]]

'''Individual'''
*[[Italian Football Hall of Fame]]: 2015<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.gazzetta.it/Calcio/27-10-2015/hall-of-fame-vialli-mancini-facchetti-ronaldo-herrera-agnelli-tardelli-ferlaino-130676725232.shtml|title=Hall of fame, 10 new entry: con Vialli e Mancini anche Facchetti e Ronaldo|trans-title=Hall of fame, 10 new entries: with Vialli and Mancini also Facchetti and Ronaldo|publisher=La Gazzetta dello Sport|language=it|date=27 October 2015|access-date=27 October 2015}}</ref>
*Greatest Manager of All Time – one of 5 managers<ref>Along with [[Alex Ferguson]], [[Rinus Michels]], [[Valeriy Lobanovskyi]] and [[Arrigo Sacchi]]</ref> ranked top 10 by [[France Football]], [[World Soccer (magazine)|World Soccer]] and [[ESPN]]<ref name="fakty">{{cite web|url=https://fakty.ua/412785-valerij-lobanovskij-popal-v-kompaniyu-luchshih-trenerov-vseh-vremen-na-kakom-meste-legenda-dinamo|title=Валерій Лобановський потрапив до компанії найкращих тренерів усіх часів: на якому місці легенда "Динамо"|publisher=[[Fakty i Kommentarii]]|access-date=25 December 2022|language=uk}}</ref>
**4th place ([[World Soccer (magazine)#Greatest Managers of All Time|World Soccer]]): 2013<ref>{{cite web|title=The Greatest Manager of all time|url=http://www.worldsoccer.com/features/the-greatest-manager-of-all-time-341473|publisher=World Soccer|author=Jamie Rainbow|date=4 July 2013}}</ref><ref name="Greatest XI">{{cite web|title=The Greatest XI: how the panel voted|url=http://www.worldsoccer.com/features/the-greatest-xi-how-the-panel-voted|publisher=World Soccer|author=Jamie Rainbow|date=2 July 2013|access-date=5 December 2017|archive-date=1 January 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150101233404/http://www.worldsoccer.com/features/the-greatest-xi-how-the-panel-voted|url-status=dead}}</ref>
**5th place ([[ESPN]]): 2013<ref name="espn" />
**7th place ([[France Football]]): 2019<ref name="Top6FF">{{cite web |url=https://www.francefootball.fr/magazine/?prov=W-HP-LBMU|title=Top 50 des coaches de l'historie|publisher=France Football |date=19 March 2019 |access-date=19 March 2019}}</ref>

==References==
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==External links==
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* {{Webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071219231127/http://www.futbolfactory.futbolweb.net/index.php?ff=personajes&f2=00001&idpersonaje=8 |date=19 December 2007 |title=Helenio Herrera: Personal Website (Italian) }}
*[http://www.lfp.es/historico/primera/entrenadores/historial.asp?ent=057 La Liga manager stats]
*{{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071219231127/http://www.futbolfactory.futbolweb.net/index.php?ff=personajes&f2=00001&idpersonaje=8 |date=19 December 2007 |title=Futbol Factory profile }} {{in lang|es}}
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20140911103050/http://www.fifa.com/classicfootball/coaches/coach=61622/ Helenio Herrera: FIFA Profile]

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