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Vanderlei Luxemburgo
Full name	Vanderlei Luxemburgo da Silva
Date of birth	May 10 1952 (1952-05-10) (age 55)
Place of birth	Nova Iguaçu, Brazil
Playing position	Wingback
Club information
Current club	Palmeiras
Youth clubs
1968-1970	Botafogo
Senior clubs¹
Years	Club	App (Gls)*
1971-1978 1978 1979-1980	Flamengo Internacional Botafogo
Teams managed
1983 1983 1984 1984 1985 1987 1989-1990 1991 1991 1992-1993 1993-1995 1995 1995 1995-1996 1997 1998 1998-2000 2001 2002 2002-2004 2004 2005 2006-2007 2008-	Campo Grande Rio Branco Friburguense Al Ittihad Democrata América Bragantino Guarani Flamengo Ponte Preta Palmeiras Paraná Clube Flamengo Palmeiras Santos Corinthians Brazil Corinthians Palmeiras Cruzeiro Santos Real Madrid Santos Palmeiras
¹ Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of June 4 2006. ² National team caps and goals correct as of June 4 2006. * Appearances (Goals)

Vanderlei Luxemburgo da Silva (born May 10, 1952, in Nova Iguaçu) is a Brazilian football (soccer) coach, he is currently head coach at Palmeiras after leaving Santos. He has managed 23 clubs in total.

1 Coaching career
2 Real Madrid
3 Assistant Coach
4 U-20 Coach
5 Titles
6 External links

Coaching career

Luxemburgo coached Brazil following the 1998 World Cup until the end of 2000 Olympics. Most notably, he is known for centering his play around Rivaldo. However, he is also notoriously remembered for the disastrous performance at the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney, where his team lost 1-2 in overtime to gold medal winners Cameroon despite having a two men advantage in that game. He is often blamed at this tournament for leaving out Romario, who had gone on national television, pleading his case to play in the tournament. Luxemburgo also stirred a controversy by having transmission devices on his forward for his club team in a match. He claimed that the Cameroon match inspired him this device so that he can tell his players where and when to attack. The CBF ruled days later that such electronic devices were illegal, but did not penalize him for using it in that match. In 2003, he led Cruzeiro Esporte Clube to win the Triple Crown of Brazilian Football, a feat that remains unparalleled to this day. Even more impressively, the club managed to win two of the three competitions (the Campeonato Mineiro and the Copa do Brasil) without losing a single match.

Real Madrid

Luxemburgo was assigned as Real Madrid's coach from Santos in the second half of the 2004/2005 season when Mariano García Remón was dismissed from the job. Luxemburgo arrived to the Spanish team from the hand of the legendary Arrigo Sacchi, who had been hired as Director of Football in December of 2004. Upon his arrival, Luxemburgo lead Real Madrid to 7 consecutive league wins, putting them back in the title race but ended up losing it 4 points behind Barcelona. In the following season, Real Madrid started brightly. However, the introduction of a new formation (the Magic Rectangle, a 4-2-2-2 formation), combined with multiple injury issues and poor performances began Luxemburgo's downfall. Calls for him to resign were intensified by a humiliating 0-3 home defeat to their rivals, Barcelona. Upon resigning, Real Madrid announced Juan Ramón López Caro would be his successor.

Assistant Coach

1981: América
1981 - 1982: Vasco da Gama
1984: Al Ittihad
1987-1988: Al Shabab

U-20 Coach

1986-1988: Fluminense

Titles

5 Brazilian Série A (1993, 94, 98, 2003 and 04)
1 Brazilian Série B (1989)
1 Brazilian Cup (2003)
7 São Paulo State Championship (1990, 93, 94, 96, 2001, 2006 and 2007)
1 Espírito Santo State Championship (1983)
1 Minas Gerais State Championship (2003)
1 Guanabara Cup (1995)
2 Rio-São Paulo Tournament (1993 and 97)
1 Copa América (1999)
1 Pre-Olympic Tournament (2000)

Sporting positions
Preceded by Zagallo	Brazilian national football team manager 1998 – 2000	Succeeded by Émerson Leão

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