The best managers of all time

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by Rahat Jain @TheRahat

• Opinion
• 28 Jul 2016, 16:17 IST
• Updated : 29 Sep 2016, 18:35 IST
  

Legendary Manager Series

Football management can often be a thankless task, more so in today’s times. Win and your players walk away with most of the credit. Lose and your tactics are immediately blamed and questioned. With massive funds flowing into the game, and expectations sky high, patience seems to run thin at clubs, even though at the end of the day only one team can win any given competition. A lot is on the line, and the top coaches are expected to implement their strategies with immediate effect and bring success. The demands are high, but achievements of a few managers in the game far exceed their peers and sets them apart.

The men that we will be looking at, have changed the way the game is played. They have extracted the last ounce of sweat and drive from their personnel and defied the odds to emerge with a resounding array of success, to leave a mark in the history of the beautiful game.

The list of the 25 best managers of all time is full of extraordinary individuals, men who have left behind a legacy, an inspiration and an ethos that will remain long after they’ve retired. Our primary considerations have been trophies won, modernism brought to the game and consistency.

#25 Arsene Wenger

#24 Johan Cruyff

#23 Udo Lattek

#22 Aime Jacquet

#21 Fabio Capello

#20 Ernst Happel

#19 Jock Stein

#18 Bill Struth

#17 Miguel Munoz

#16 Valeri Lobanovskiy

#15 - Ottmar Hitzfeld

#14 - Giovanni Trapattoni

#13 - Jose Mourinho

#12 - Carlo Ancelotti

#11 Vicente Del Bosque

#10 Marcello Lippi