Winning World Cup Managers, Collect them all! Quiz

Answer:

Firstly, the winners, in chronological order: Alberto Suppici has a special place in history, being the first manager to lead a country to victory in a Final (1930 - Uruguay). Following him, another history-making manager in Italian Vittorio Pozzo, who won back to back finals in 1934 and 1938. Sepp Hepberger was in charge of West Germany when they won in 1954, and in 1966 Alf Ramsay brought football home for England. There are rumours he was even seen to smile!

Mario Zagallo led the wonderful Brazilians to victory in 1970 and Helmut Schon followed him four years later with West Germany's title on home soil. Cesar Luis Menotti saw Argentina to a home victory in 1978 and eight years later Carlos Bilardo repeated the feat for the same country. Aime Jacquet guided France to their first title in 1998, whilst Luiz Felipe Scolari oversaw Brazil's fifth win in 2002.

Marcello Lippi led Italy to title number four in 2006 and Joachim Löw was in charge when (the now unified) Germany won in 2014. Didier Deschamps made it title number two for the French in 2018 and finally, Lionel Scaloni was Argentina's manager when they won in 2022.

But I think we should focus now on the losers, after all, the winners have had their glory! George Raynor was the English manager of Switzerland, whose team were beaten by Brazil and 17-year old Pele on home soil in 1958. Rudolf Vytlacil was in charge of Czechoslovakia four years later when also beaten by Brazil in Chile. Rinus Michels was the Dutch boss who was on the losing side to hosts West Germany in 1974.

Austrian-born Ernst Happel followed the same path for The Netherlands in 1978 when defeated by the hosts, Argentina. Bert van Marwijk made it three losses from three Final appearances when the Dutch lost to Spain in South Africa in 2010. And lastly we come to Zlatko Dalic, who was in charge of Croatia who surprised a lot of people by getting to the Final in Russia in 2018, before losing 4-2 to France.