SI.com · Jul 15, 2019
Mario Zagallo: Velho Lobo's All-Time Best XI
Mario Zagallo is number 25 in 90min's Top 50 Great Managers of All Time series. Follow the rest of the series over the course of the next five weeks. You can find Ross Kennerly's Zagallo career overview here.
A habitual winner, Mario Zagallo will long be remembered for becoming the first man to lift the World Cup trophy both as a player and as a manager.
He has since been joined by two other managers, but not before etching his name into the record books for doing it first. A wonderful player in his own right, if you ask a football fan to select the greatest ever footballing side, few would look past Zagallo's 1970 Brazil team.