Carlos Alberto Gomes
Parreira (born February 27, 1943, in Rio de Janeiro
) is a Brazilian
football manager.
Coaching Career
Parreira supports
Fluminense, and he has won two
important League titles for the club: The First Division
Brazilian Championship in 1984 and
the Third Division in 1999. About the latter title, Parreira has
said that this was personally the most important trophy of his
career, even more so than Brazil's World Cup triumph, as the club
he loved was facing near-bankruptcy and became very close to
extinction at the time. He is regarded as a hero by Fluminense's
supporters.
Parreira is noted for having been one of only two coaches that has
led four national teams to the
World
Cup:
Kuwait in
1982,
United Arab
Emirates in
1990, Brazil
in
1994 and
2006, and
Saudi Arabia in
1998. The other coach,
Bora Milutinovic, surpassed this
record when he led a fifth team in 2002. He was also involved to
some extent with the
1970
championship team for Brazil, which he claims was an inspiration
for him to aspire to be a national football coach.
In 1997,
Parreira coached the MetroStars of the
American
Major League
Soccer. He also coached Fenerbahçe
in Turkey
and won a
Turkish League Championship. Parreira was also in charge of
Corinthians in 2002,
which gave him two of the most important national trophies of 2002:
The
Brazilian Cup and the
Torneio Rio-São Paulo, besides
being runner up at the
Brazilian League.
When coaching Saudi Arabia at the
1998 World Cup in France, he was
fired after two matches, one of two managers to be sacked during
the tournament.
Parreira repeatedly turned down offers to coach Brazil again
between 1998 and 2002 World Cups. In end of 2000, when the team was
in turmoil after firing
Vanderlei
Luxemburgo, he refused the post, stating that he did not want
to relive the stress and pressure of winning the World Cup again.
There were
public cries again to replace Luiz
Felipe Scolari for Parreira in July 2001 when Brazil lost two
matches to Mexico and
Honduras in its
title defense at the 2001 Copa
America in Colombia
, specially
after the last minute invitee (replacing Argentina who dropped out
one day before the kickoff) Honduras defeated 2-0 and eliminated
the favorite Brazil in
quarterfinals round on July 23, 2001. Through this time
period, Parreira, only stated that he would indirectly assist
Scolari in 2002 campaign. After the
2002 World Cup, Parreira took part
in drafting a technical report of the tournament. He was named
coach along with
Mario Zagallo as
assistant director in January 2003, with the goal of defending
their World Cup title in
Germany
2006, but on July 1, 2006 the favorite Brazil was defeated and
eliminated 0-1 by
France in quarterfinals.
After Brazil's exit from the World Cup, Parreira was heavily
criticisized by the Brazilian public and media for playing an
outdated brand of football and not using the players available to
him properly. Parreira subsequently resigned on July 19, 2006. He
coached
Brazil to
victory in the
1994 FIFA World
Cup and was the coach of the
South Africa national
football team until resigning in April 2008. On October 22,
2009 it was announced he will return as head coach of the
South Africa national
football team. He announced a verbal agreement with the
South African
Football Association on October 23, 2009.
Fitness Coach
Assistant Coach
FIFA World Cup Matches
Parreira has coached national squads in 21 games in
FIFA World Cup competition. Parreira's
coaching record is 10-4-8 (Wins-Draws-Losses). His teams have
scored 27 goals and conceded 29. Below is a list of all matches,
along with their outcomes:
1 - 1
4 - 1
1 - 0
2 - 0
1 - 5
4 - 1
2 - 0
3 - 0
1 - 1
1 - 0
3 - 2
1 - 0
0 (3) - (2) 0
0 - 1
4 - 0
1 - 0
2 - 0
1 - 4
3 - 0
0 - 1
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