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When you hear that music, you know something wild is about to happen. When they rebranded the European Cup as the Champions League in 1992, they created a sporting competition that was as much hype as it was excellent football. The chance and chaos of a cup competition self-styled as the biggest and best club competition around.

The Champions League has delivered on memorable moments over the years. Incredible scenes of drama and tragedy, and central to all this has been the managers. The players get all the glory on the pitch, but managers are just as important (sometimes even moreso) than they are. So we’ve had a look at all the managers since the Champions League’s rebranding and come up with the top 7.

7. Jupp Heynckes
Clubs: Real Madrid and Bayern Munich
W/D/L: 41/16/20
Win Percentage: 70%
Trophies Won: 1998 (Madrid), 2013 (Bayern)

Heynckes was a journeyman coach with a fairly impressive UEFA Cup record when Real Madrid took a shot on him in 1997. A year later and he helped them capture their first Champions League for 32 years, reigniting Los Blancos’ love affair with the European Cup. He was still sacked, though, for finishing fourth in La Liga.

6. Sir Alex Ferguson




Clubs: Manchester United
W/D/L: 105/50/39
Win Percentage: 54%
Trophies Won: 1999, 2008

Sir Alex Ferguson loses the head-to-head with Del Bosque but ranks above him through the fact that he battered just about everyone else at least once during his phenomenally long run in the Champions League (no one can match the 194 matches he’s taken charge of). Sir Alex was, of course, the man behind the miracle minute in 1999, and he was also at the helm for the radically different 2008 juggernaut of a side.

5. Louis van Gaal




Clubs: Ajax, Barcelona, Bayern Munich, Manchester United
W/D/L: 57/16/22
Win Percentage: 60%
Trophies Won: 1995 (Ajax)

Sometimes it’s not just how many you win but how you win them. Louis van Gaal’s Champions League career spanned 10 seasons but he was never more brilliant than in his first three with Ajax. Specifically his first two, where he made the final both times, winning it once and only being denied by a doped-up Juventus the year after.

4. José Mourinho




Clubs: Porto, Chelsea, Inter, Real Madrid, Manchester United, Totteham Hotspur
W/D/L: 80/36/25
Win Percentage: 56.74%
Trophies Won: 2004 (Porto), 2010 (Inter)

José Mourinho is a bit like Game of Thrones in that when he first showed up he was brutal, charming and instantly hypnotic but by the end, he was incoherent, contradictory and just plain annoying. The Portuguese shook up the world by winning the Champions League with Porto before moving to Chelsea and almost overnight turning them into one of the best teams in Europe.

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Marcello Lippi is regarded as one of the greatest and most successful managers in football history, and in 2007, The Times included him on its list of the top 50 managers of all time.Throughout his career as a manager he won one World Cup title, five Serie A titles, three Chinese Super League titles, one Coppa Italia, one Chinese FA Cup, four Italian Supercups, one UEFA Champions League, one AFC Champions League, one UEFA Supercup and one Intercontinental Cup. He is the first and to date the only coach to win both the UEFA Champions League and the AFC Champions League.

He was named the world's best football manager by the International Federation of Football History & Statistics (IFFHS) both in 1996 and 1998, and world's best National coach in 2006.He is the first coach to have won the most prestigious international competitions both for clubs in different continents, and for national teams (the UEFA Champions League and the Intercontinental Cup in 1996 with Juventus; the AFC Champions League in 2013 with Guangzhou; and the FIFA World Cup in 2006 with Italy).

Marcello Lippi won the Serie A title and the Coppa Italia in his first season at the club, also reaching the 1995 UEFA Cup Final, with a team that included players who would play an important role in the club's future successes, including Gianluca Vialli, Fabrizio Ravanelli, Roberto Baggio, Alessandro Del Piero, Angelo Peruzzi, Angelo Di Livio, Moreno Torricelli, Didier Deschamps, Paulo Sousa, Antonio Conte, Alessio Tacchinardi and Giancarlo Marocchi, as well as Ciro Ferrara, a player Lippi had previously coached at Napoli and who later acted as his assistant with the Azzurri. The following season, Lippi guided Juventus to 1995 Supercoppa Italiana and the 1995–96 UEFA Champions League titles. With the arrival of several new key players which included Zinedine Zidane, Edgar Davids, Filippo Inzaghi, Mark Iuliano, Paolo Montero and Igor Tudor, these victories were followed by consecutive league titles, the 1996 UEFA Super Cup, the 1996 Intercontinental Cup and the 1997 Supercoppa Italiana, as well as two more consecutive Champions League finals and another semi-final.

Regarded as one of the best and most successful managers of all time,in 2013, James Horncastle, while writing for ESPN, described Marcello Lippi has a coaching style and tactical prowess with the following words: "[His] coaching education is broader than most. He worked before, during and after the revolution brought by Arrigo Sacchi. So think of him as a bridge between the old gioco all’italiana and the new, a blend of the traditional and the modern. His teams knew how to man-mark and to play zone. They invited opponents onto them and counterattacked but could also take the game to whoever they were playing and press them in their half of the pitch. Balance was everything. Lippi's starting XIs were never fixed. They were always in discussion and would be adapted according to the opposition."

In 1999, several journalists of La Gazzetta dello Sport praised Lippi for his charismatic leadership during his time with Juventus. Several of the club's former midfielders under Lippi went on to become managers, and have cited Lippi as an influence; these include Didier Deschamps, Paulo Sousa, Antonio Conte, and Zinedine Zidane.

That Juventus had four consecutive European Finals and if you think back, that was an exceptional achievement.

RECORDS OF MARCELLO LIPPI
First Coach to win both UEFA Champions League and World Cup.
First Coach to win both UEFA Champions League and AFC Champions League.
Lippi and Vicente del Bosque are the only two Coaches to have won both World Cup and UEFA Champions League.

Vicente Del Bosque On 9 June 2009, in a friendly against Azerbaijan in which Spain won 6–0, became the first manager in all of football history to win his first ten games as debut manager of a national team,the previous record being nine held by João Saldanha of Brazil. The record currently stands at 13 successive victories,[citation needed] with the last winning match being a 2–0 win against South Africa in the 2009 Confederations Cup.

At 60years of age, he became the oldest coach to win the World Cup in 2010.

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