A few weeks before the transition to 2025, the website
Goal.com has produced its top 25 of the best coaches of the 21st century. The choices of the English media have caused discussion on social networks and rightly so as there are serious errors of assessment. Journalists from other countries would have published a very different top 25. In France, Zinédine Zidane would perhaps not be ranked as high and, above all, Didier Deschamps would never appear outside the top 10. “La Dèche” finds himself 14th “best coach” of the quarter century!
It’s a fact, Deschamps, if he is contested by the latter for his unattractive football (and less modern than other national coaches), is one of the best national team coaches in history. Quite simply. However, the winning coach of the 2018 World Cup, 2022 world vice-champion and unfortunate finalist of Euro 2016 in no way deserves to go behind Roberto Mancini (13th), Unai Emery (12th), Antonio Conte (10th) and even Luis Enrique, who is in a staggering 9th place!
Deschamps behind Scaloni
Placing Luis Enrique in the top 10 at the expense of “La Dèche” clearly demonstrates the inaccuracy of the ranking proposed by
Goal.comeven with the 9 titles gleaned by the current PSG coach when he led MSN Barça (Lionel Messi/Luis Suarez/Neymar). Luis Enrique failed at the head of the Spanish team and has not yet won the Champions League with the Rouge et Bleu. Lionel Scaloni is also ahead of Didier Deschamps by appearing in 14th position, thanks to his World Cup won in Qatar and his two consecutive coronations in the Copa América.
At the top of his ranking, we find Pep Guardiola, the greatest strategist in modern football, at the head of a Barça record then author of a historic hat-trick in 2023 with Manchester City. Carlo Ancelotti is his runner-up, the winner of five C1s. Sir Alex Ferguson, with his three LDC finals for a coronation (in 2008), is ahead of José Mourinho, holder of a “triple crown” C1-C3-C4 as well as Jürgen Klopp, also a triple LDC finalist. “Zizou” ranks 6th thanks to his hat-trick in
Championsahead of Diego Simeone and Vicente del Bosque, the coach of the Real Galacticos then world and European champion with the Spanish Seleccion.
