Carlos Alberto Parreira

Carlos Alberto Parreira
Personnel
Surname	Carlos Alberto Gomes Parreira
birthday	February 27, 1943
place of birth	Rio de Janeiro ,  Brazil
Stations as a trainer
Years	station
1967-1968	São Cristóvão FR
1967	Ghana
1968	Asante Kotoko
1975-1988	Fluminense
1978-1983	Kuwait
1983-1984	Brazil
1984-1985	Fluminense
1985-1988	United Arab Emirates
1988-1990	Saudi Arabia
1990-1991	United Arab Emirates
1991	CA Bragantino
1991-1994	Brazil
1994-1995	Valencia CF
1995-1996	Fenerbahçe
1996-1997	Sao Paulo FC
1997-1998	MetroStars
1998-1999	Saudi Arabia
1999-2000	Fluminense
2000-2001	Atlético MG
2001-2002	Internacional
2002-2003	Corinthians
2003-2006	Brazil
2007-2008	South Africa
2009	Fluminense
2009-2010	South Africa

Carlos Alberto Gomes Parreira (born February 27, 1943 in Rio de Janeiro ) is a former Brazilian football coach . He was the national coach of his country three times, with whom he won the soccer World Cup in 1994, by far his greatest success , and was also employed as a coach for other clubs and national teams. From November 2012 to July 2014 Parreira was the technical director of the Seleção .

Carlos Parreira took part in soccer World Cups six times as a coach : with Kuwait in 1982 , the United Arab Emirates in 1990 , Brazil in 1994 and 2006, and with Saudi Arabia in 1998 and South Africa in 2010 . In 1970 he was already there as a fitness trainer for the Brazilians.

In 1997 Parreira coached the MetroStars in Major League Soccer . In his career he coached two well-known Brazilian clubs: Fluminense FC and Corinthians , and he won two awards with his teams, the Brazilian Cup and the 2003 São Paulo State Cup. In 1991 he was also surprisingly Brazilian runner-up with the provincial team CA Bragantino . He also coached Valencia CF in 1994/95 and Fenerbahçe Istanbul in 1995/96 , where he won the Turkish championship straight away.

From January 8, 2003, he was the national coach of the Brazilian national team for the third time, with which he became soccer world champion in 1994. In 2005 he won the Confederation Cup in Germany with Brazil . At the 2006 World Cup, however, he was eliminated with Brazil in the quarter-finals. The early failure of the defending champion was considered the biggest surprise of the tournament. On July 19, 2006 Parreira resigned from his position as national coach, his successor was Carlos Dunga .

Parreira became the coach of the South African national team in 2007 . After he had announced his early resignation on April 21, 2008, he returned in October 2009 to the post he held as coach of the host country until the end of the 2010 World Cup.

At the beginning of 2009 Parreira took over the training again at Fluminense FC in Rio de Janeiro - his fourth coaching contract with the club. After a series of defeats, however, he was released a few months later.

Parreira coached six different national teams in the course of his career. It is also unusual that he had multiple contracts with five different employers. He was twice national coach for South Africa, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates and even three times Brazilian national coach and four times at Fluminense. However, 19 of his total of 25 terms of office lasted a maximum of around one year - between 1994 and 2003 alone, he had nine different posts.

On November 29, 2012 Parreira was appointed technical director of the national team. He was to lead this together with the new and old coach Luiz Felipe Scolari to the 2014 home World Cup . After the Brazilian national team had only achieved fourth place in the 2014 World Cup, the Brazilian Football Association CBF ended their cooperation on July 14, 2014.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ fifa.com: Scolari is the new trainer of the "Seleção" ( Memento from January 27, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
2. ↑ ^{a b} Disappointing home World Cup: Out for Brazil coach Scolari. In: Spiegel Online from July 15, 2014 (accessed July 15, 2014).
3. ↑ South Africa team boss Parreira now World Cup record coach
4. ↑ KICKER ONLINE
5. ^ Carlos Alberto Parreira - A Life for Football . RP Online. February 27, 2013. Retrieved August 21, 2014.