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Why Brazilian players are far more successful than Brazilian managers

Dorival Junior, Brazil's latest men's national team coach, is taking on his 26th managerial job in the past 22 years. That's right: 22 seasons, 26 different gigs. And guess what? He's not really an outlier, either.

His Selecao predecessor, Fernando Diniz, who split the job with coaching club side Fluminense, had 17 in 13 seasons. Before him, Ramon Menezes had 11 in 10 years. Even the guy before him, Tite, who guided Brazil in two World Cups and was the national team's longest-serving manager in history (6 years and 3 months), had a whopping 17 different jobs in 25 years before being appointed.