Start the year with a good joke!

Dunga was ranked the best National Coach in 2007 by the IFFHS - International Federation of Football History & Statistics. I didn’t find the criteria they used to reach this conclusion, but if that is based purely on results and numbers, well, ok they may have a point. But as a coach he still has a long way to go. He is still a rookie compared to “Big Phil” Scolari, for an example, which was ranked only in 10th place along with Argentinean Alfio Basile.

There are other big names in the list, but even so Jorvan Vieira, a completely unknown (at least here) Brazilian coach, is in third place. Of course after reading about Jorvan I could understand why he can be considered a great coach, after all he won the Asian Cup with Iraq, a country ravaged by war. In 2007, under Jorvan’s command, the Iraq’s National Team won not only the AFC Asian Cup, but was also chosen as the AFC team of the year, Al-Ahram’s Arab team of the year, World Soccer Magazine’s World team of the year and nominated for the Prince of Asturias Award.

At the other hand, Dunga’s job behind a team like Brazil isn’t that hard so, to see him at the top of the ladder was kind of funny.