Luis Felipe Scolari
Luis (Luiz) Felipe Scolari is a World Cup winner with Brazil and a veteran manager with over 20 years in club and international football management. He has done extremely well with Portugal in Euro 04 and World Cup 06 and will officially become Chelsea manager after Portugal’s current Euro 08 campaign ends.
Scolari Speaks, Chelsea Bleeds, Becks and Giggs Learn Their Fates and More!
Luiz Felipe Scolari shed some insight into his situation at Chelsea right before he was given the pink slip by Roman Abramovich on Monday. He admitted that he had no relationship with his players off the pitch, and took several players (their initials are D.D. and F.M.) to task for not playing well. Oh, and…
Clueless Chelsea Hit ‘Reset’ Button, Hope For Miracle-Worker
Football fans can be fickle, the media even more so but the Chelsea board has taken knee-jerk reactions and impossible expectations to Real Madrid-like proportions. While the white-clad prima donnas have a rich history to point to as an excuse, Chelsea have…let’s see…two back-to-back league titles (sandwiched between two 2nd-place finishes), a handful of domestic…
Creativity, Scolari and The 3-5-2
The esteemed Mr. Scolari has encouraged his players to “find their creative spark”. A 2-nil win over a dismal West Brom and a somewhat unfortunate 2-2 draw with Fulham may have resulted from Big Phil’s slight alteration in formation, but certainly it is time for LFS to be bold himself. It is time for Chelsea…
Chelsea To Sign Middlesbrough’s Tuncay?
Premier League giants Chelsea seem to have made Middlesbrough striker Tuncay Sanli their top target for January as manager Luiz Felipe Scolari seems to be eager to sign a striker next month. According to The Daily Mail, Chelsea are ready to spend as much as £8 million to sign the Turkish international striker who arrived…
Football to Abramovich – only points win titles
What would fans prefer to see and pay to watch: entertaining, attacking football which might result in their team losing the odd game, or a defensive, effective game that brings trophies and titles? Chelsea seem to be struggling with this dilemma this season. Jose Mourinho was delivering titles and trophies to Stamford Bridge but Roman…
Scolari’s rants not the answer for fallible Chelsea
Prior to Saturday’s 2-1 defeat against title rivals Arsenal, ‘Big’ Phil Scolari had avoided controversy during the opening six months of his reign as Chelsea manager. Scolari let his Chelsea team do their talking on the pitch, and with some fabulous football along with some good results, the Brazilian had adapted to life in England…
Safe or Not? The 08-09 Manager Sack Race
Last season the manager sack race got a bit ridiculous with many managers under severe pressure and some getting fired despite being backed in the transfer window and a few dismissed without being given a full season to show what they could do at the club. New owners and heightened expectations (both a product of…
Should Scolari give Sheva a chance?
It’s been a good month for Chelsea and Luiz Felipe Scolari. The new manager of the Blues has overseen a successful preseason campaign including a morale-boosting 19 goals in 5 matches, while off the pitch Felipao has brought in Deco as the club’s second signing of the summer behind Jose Bosingwa, whilst also seemingly retaining the…
Have Chelsea got a calm and quiet manager or will the ‘wild man’ appear?
Scolari made a great first impression… You have to give credit where credit is due. Luiz Felipe Scolari was absolutely brilliant in his first press conference as Chelsea manager last week. Not only was he friendly, charming and humorous, he also conducted the whole thing in English. He certainly responded in the best way possible…
Euro 2008 Manager Ratings
We’ve looked at the players, now it’s time to look at the managers involved at Euro 2008 and find out how they got on:
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