Who could coach Portugal?

I think he said the exact opposite. If Portugal does well he stays. If Portugal fails he walks. Anyway I hope to see him back to us by 2010.

Scolari, I mean.

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Posted from  United States

heh. i think scolari would stay, at least till the next euros. If he leaves, jose would the best option. We need some portuguese blood!

Posted from  Singapore

LP…you name some good coaches (except Luxemburgo..he’s an idiot, he’s messed up more teams than he’s helped..as Luis said, very inflexible)

But what about some home grown talent like Jaime Pacheco. Remember Boavisata?

My selection => the 23 players :

- Goalkeepers : Ricardo and Quim
- Defenders : Ricardo Carvalho, Fernando Meira, Nuno Valente, Miguel and Paulo Ferreira, Caneira, Ricardo Rocha, José Nunes
- Midfielders : Deco, Luis Figo, Cristiano Ronaldo, Maniche, Petit and Rui Costa, Hugo Viana, Quaresma, Luis Boa Morte, Tiago
- Strikers : Pauleta and Postiga, Nuno Gomes

Posted from  Brazil

This is the million dollar question…

As a portuguese, who’s lived most of his life in Portugal, I see things in a different way…

1) The people, federation, lobbie power, etc, are NOT used to a foreign coach. Scolari, being brazilian, having won a world tittle, being charming and smart and etc, conquered the people. The resulst also helped, although he actually had more credit with the people before the EC started.

2) The portuguese coaches so far, have been either “lobbie-sucking” or gave it up after 1 run. Successfull or not. I mean, still in the qualifies for 1994, Carlos Queiroz – now nr 2 in Man Utd; the “designer” of the golden generation, as he was the master mind coaching those kids to win everything they could, as kids – after the defeat against Italy, which kicked us out from the US, already said “there’s a lot of sh#t in the Federation and POR will never go anywhere till things start changing”. H Coelho did brilliantly in 2000 and refused the job after.

3) Other names… Well, I believe the people would not favour Jaime Pacheco as they don’t believe he has “the stuff”. Manuel Jose, doing brilliantly for the Egypcian team (whose name I forgot), never had much friends in the power circles and people also don’t like him much. I do, but that’s just me. Fernando Santos, the guy in Greece doing good and in FC Porto before Mourinho (actually the guy who put DECO in the pitch and who taught him that if you play in the midfield, you should also learn to defend and be versatile), is never mentioned.

4) Mourinho… When Scolari started, he made the ever sensitive comment: “How easy can it be to coach any National Team”. Didn’t make a good friend in Scolari with this statement. I believe the guy won’t go to Portugal unless he doesn’t have anything better to do.

5) Sven… I wouldn’t say no. Knows a lot about portuguese football (took Benfica to the final of the Champs League) and can even speak portuguese. Had too much “image destruction” due to staying so long in England and beeing involved in too many scandals. If he’s asked for the job, he’ll ask a ridiculous amount of $. That’s my guess.

Posted from  Netherlands

And who says politics has nothing to do with football.

Soze, I’m not an expert… This is what I see and read. Anybody can make 2+2, right? Problem is, I’ve got a good memory and, like so many others, wonders sometimes if having some of the best players in the world, how come we never even qualified, SO OFTEN…?

Posted from  Netherlands

I don’t know about Sven?? If his handling of Englands NT is a true indication of his talents, then they can keep him.
He’s tactically weak. Look at EC04 when he pulled his offence off to early and then lost because he needed scoring but had nobody on the pitch that could score.
Secondly he seems to suffer from the same “I have to include players based on reputation, not form” mentality.
How can you save a spot for Owen (who I happen to like allot) when he’s not even close to fit and when you have a couple of guys in top form and scoring liek crazy that should go?? He’s basically got Rio Ferdinand penciled in along with Campbell I think, and both these guys do not belong there. Rio because he’s playing really really poorly and Campbell because he’s mentally and physically not there. An arguement could be made that Beck’s should maybe make room also.
So as far as Sven goes, we have plenty like him at home.. Don’t need him.

Posted from  Canada

OK Ceaser… Out with Sven…

If indeed it’s this way, than we DO have a lot like him at home… But I don’t know so much in detail what he’s actually done.

Posted from  Netherlands

I believe England have the most talented team they have ever assembled in this WC but, I don’t see them going far. Only because I don’t think they believe in Sven or have confidence in him and you can’t win unless you buy into a coaches phylosophy 100%.
They will not admit it publically, but it’s there and it will hurt their chances.
Been there, done that, as far as our team is concerned.
We need to concentrate on the task at hand. It starts tough and only gets tougher as we move forward for us in this WC. Other than not having the toughest group, we get no other breaks from then on. Tough opponents waiting on first round, tougher still in second and if we get that far then maybe Italy or Brasil or someone like that waiting.
Hell, the final might be the easiest game.. haha

Posted from  Canada

You’re right, all the way, dude!

Posted from  Netherlands

Soze, the world don’t know Luxemburgo enough. Portuguese people may not like him after he sacked Figo from the team but he is no idiot. He came back to Brazil and just won another title here last week with a very limited Santos. I believe that Europe should give him another chance.

I don’t know him at all. Didn’t follow his Real Madrid “soap opera”.

But did follow the guy before him, Carlos Queiroz. Who got sacked. At the time, it was clear to me Figo was the obvious scape goat. Moreover, he was the first galactico, he was a direct menace to the “million dollar making baby face almost new comer” galactico. I also believe Figo wasn’t playing good enough at the time.

If Luxemburgo is as good as you say, he’s got my vote. Only… I just wish Scolari to stay.

Posted from  Netherlands

I tell you that for a club, there is fewer better options. However i’m not sure about how he would do in a national team. When coaching Brazil he failed once. There are rumors that he will replace Parreira on the Brazilian NT. I’m not quite sure if I want this or not.

H. Coelho or F. Santos were not even considered – the author of the blog knows more about brasilian soccer than Portuguese soccer. Do more research, believe in the team and the country and stop looking to brasilians because you know little to nothing about portuguese soccer. I hope scolari stays but if he doesn’t there are other options . To suggest Luxemburgo is ridiculous.

Posted from  Canada

I gave you my favorites. You are welcome to give us yours.

Yeah Kennedy, I’m portuguese and I’d like to know who you’d choose. Also why you seem so angry with our friend here Luis Paolo, who has done a much better job than you (and me) in this blog for OUR team.

Posted from  Netherlands

Another thing, true that H Coelho and F Santos weren’t even considered. WHY?

Not good enough? Who’s good enough? A Oliveira (AGAIN)? Manuel Cajuda (who’s actually now also in Egypt)? Artur Jorge (AGAIN), if they put the brain back in? Jose Couceiro? C’mon…

Why do I get the feeling Manuel Jose will NEVER be asked? Why do I get the feeling nobody will ever ask Carlos Queiroz and Nelo Vingada, to coach together AGAIN?

What’s wrong with a foreigner coach? You see plenty of portuguese coaches doing well abroad, why not the other way around?

Posted from  Netherlands

Pedro, you nailed it on the head. None of our past “donkeys” did the job right so it’s got to be somebody new Portuguese or otherwise. Kennedy, your welcome to put forward your candidates and or justify why they are worthy.

Posted from  Canada

I don’t get this choach xenophobism. I would gladly have a foreign coach on my team. Actually, if Parreira really leave Brazil after WC I would prefer Mourinho, Hiddink or even Advocaat then any brazilian. I would also dream to see Karel Brukner coaching Brazil. Actually, I would even wish to see the serbian Dejan Petkovic playing with the yellow t-shirt.

For those who don’t know who is Petkovic, read here:
http://serbiamontenegro.worldcupblog.org/1/unleash-the-pet.html

I have nothing against a foreign coach. If he’s better. Portuguese or not, quality should be the criteria. I guess this is what everybody really wants.

In Portugal it’s not xenofobia. But I understand if you see it like that. I believe it’s just tradition. In everybody’s hearts, the coach is also part of the team, which is supposed to be national.

It was already an issue having Deco playing for us. I mean, I imagine most of the people were glad and/or actually waiting for a long time for us to do what so many others have done: use a guy with a national passport, born somewhere else. Still, the “voices” emerged… I’m glad (I’d be stupid not to) to have Deco in our team.

About Luxemburgo, again, I must say I know nothing relevant about him. But I do know that european football is much, much, different than brazilian at club level. In Portugal there’s a good TV access to brazilian games.

Posted from  Netherlands

there are different traditions in the selection of national coaches by the federations; for example, in holland and germany, they tend to select former international players, which even without coaching experience, know what it is to represent the national side; england or portugal tend to go for coaches with great international reputation, manifesting a good curriculum and the specific temperament for the job, even if they need not be national citizens; france goes differently, priveleging coaches which come from the youth sides, and have profound historical knowledge of the players; brazil, on the other hand, selects coaches from their national league, and which command general support of the population. so, in sum, we have different paradigms of selection. if the portuguese federation maintains theirs, then we should find a coach with great international reputation, irrespective of citizenship. this would mean a very wide range of possible names. personally, given this trajectory of decision-making, i would suggest the name: johan cruyff.

Posted from  United States

Scolari took Portugal to the finals in Euro2004 and 4th place in World Cup. So I would like to see the results in Euro2008 and then decide. But if I had a choice, I would like to see Scolari stay with Portugal for one more World Cup. But if he does decide to coach another National team (most likey he will coach Mexico) then I would like to see Jose Mourinho with Portugal. He is a great coach no doubt about it.