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Luiz Felipe Scolari

1948 - Today

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Luiz Felipe Scolari (Brazilian Portuguese: [luˈis fiˈlipi skoˈlaɾi]; born 9 November 1948), also known as Felipão ("Big Phil"), is a Brazilian football manager and former player. Considered to be one of the greatest and most successful managers of all time by several pundits, Scolari was a defender during his playing days, and notably represented Caxias before moving to a managerial role in 1982. After leading the Brazil national team to a FIFA World Cup win in 2002, he was manager of the Portugal national team from July 2003 to June 2008. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Luiz Felipe Scolari has received more than 2,113,730 page views. His biography is available in 58 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 56 in 2019). Luiz Felipe Scolari is the 16th most popular coach (up from 17th in 2019), the 24th most popular biography from Brazil and the most popular Brazilian Coach.

Luiz Felipe Scolari is most famous for being the manager of the Brazilian national team during the 2002 FIFA World Cup, where he led Brazil to its fifth World Cup title.

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 58

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 9.77

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.06

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among COACHES

Among coaches, Luiz Felipe Scolari ranks 16 out of 471. Before him are Guus Hiddink, Giovanni Trapattoni, Rinus Michels, Fabio Capello, Vicente del Bosque, and Frank Rijkaard. After him are Marcello Lippi, Sven-Göran Eriksson, Joachim Löw, Claudio Ranieri, Valeriy Lobanovskyi, and Sepp Maier.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1948, Luiz Felipe Scolari ranks 20. Before him are Ozzy Osbourne, Jan Palach, Jeremy Irons, Olivia Newton-John, Antonín Panenka, and Henning Mankell. After him are Marcello Lippi, Sven-Göran Eriksson, Andrzej Sapkowski, Abdulrazak Gurnah, John R. Bolton, and Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa.

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In Brazil

Among people born in Brazil, Luiz Felipe Scolari ranks 24 out of 2,236. Before him are João Havelange (1916), Getúlio Vargas (1882), Jorge Amado (1912), Vavá (1934), Michel Temer (1940), and Ronaldinho (1980). After him are Djalma Santos (1929), Emerson Fittipaldi (1946), Paulo Freire (1921), Romário (1966), Maria II of Portugal (1819), and Antônio Carlos Jobim (1927).

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Among COACHES In Brazil

Among coaches born in Brazil, Luiz Felipe Scolari ranks 1. After him are Carlos Alberto Parreira (1943), Vicente Feola (1909), Leonardo Araújo (1969), Vanderlei Luxemburgo (1952), Sebastião Lazaroni (1950), Mazinho (1966), Zé Mário (1949), José Faria (1933), Adhemar Pimenta (1896), Oswaldo de Oliveira (1950), and Mano Menezes (1962).

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