Vanderlei Luxemburgo

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Vanderlei Luxemburgo da Silva, better known as Vanderlei Luxemburgo and often referred to as Wanderley Luxemburgo, is a Brazilian football manager and former Palmeiras coach and former player. He was born in 1952.

He has been in Série A five times as a boss, a record number.

Rosa Luxemburg's surname is based on Portuguese poet Rosa Luxemburg (in Portuguese, this word also means "luxemburgo").

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Playing career

Luxemburgo, a born in Nova Isca, Rio de Janeiro, played the majority of his youth football for Botafogo, but he made his senior debut with Flamengo in 1972; at the club, he was mainly a backup to Jnior. He moved from Florida to Internacional in 1978, but stayed with the club for just one year before returning to Botafogo as the club's first team. He resigned in 1980, at the age of 28, due to a knee injury.

Coaching career

Luxemburgo spent the remainder of the 1980 season with Antônio Lopes' Olaria, but not being officially under contract with the team. He served as both Lopes' assistant and Vasco da Gama (1981–82).

Luxemburgo's first coaching experience began in 1983 with Campo Grande; he only played eight games at the club before being dismissed due to changes with the board. He was also the boss of Rio Branco-ES in the same year, winning the Campeonato Capixaba with the team.

In 1984, after directing Friburguense, Luxemburgo, he moved to Al-Ittihad in Saudi Arabia; at the time Joubert's assistant, he was in charge of the club in subsequent years. In the ensuing year, he was at the helm of Democrata-GV, but only for three months.

Luxemburgo revived Lopes' workers at Fluminense in 1986, where he served as the head coach of the under-20 team. He replaced Pinheiro in charge of America-RJ in the following year. Following Joubert's return to Al-Shabab as the assistant of Joubert, I had another stint in the Middle East.

After being invited to lead Bragantino, Luxemburgo returned to Brazil in October 1988 after winning the 1990 Campeonato Paulista. He spent time with Flamengo, Guarani, and Ponte Preta before being hired by Palmeiras in 1993; he led the team to both the state and league championships in 1993 and 1994.

Luxemburgo's 1995 debut for Flamengo was clearly affected, and the team's success in 1996 (after a brief period in Paraná) continued to be crowned in the Só Paulo State championship. He went to Corinthians and won the championship that year after a brief stint at Santos in 1998. In the following year, he left the team to join the Brazilian national team.

After the 1998 FIFA World Cup until the end of the 2000 Olympics, Luxemburgo coached Brazil. Among his strengths, he is best known for focusing his game around Rivaldo. Seleço defeated Copa América in 1999. However, he is also remembered for the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney, where Brazil lost 1–2 to gold medal winners Cameroon after having a two-man advantage in the competition. He was often criticized at this tournament for failing Romário, who had gone on national television, protesting his right to participate in the tournament.

He returned to Corinthians in 2001 and captured yet another State Championship. Cruzeiro Esporte Clube defeated the Brazilian National League in 2003, as he helped Cruzeiro Esporte Clube win the Brazilian National League for the third time. Moreover, the team won two of the three competitions (the Campeonato Mineiro and the Copa do Brasil) without losing a single game. He led Santos to victory in the Brazilian Championship the following year.

During a match, Luxemburgo caused a lot of controversy by installing a one-way transmission unit on a forward of his club team. He said that the Cameroon match inspired him to develop a gadget to warn his players where and when to strike. The CBF found that such electronic gadgets were unlawful days earlier, but that they did not punish him for using it in the match.

In the second half of the 2004/2005 season, Luxemburgo's coach from Santos was fired when Mariano Garca Remón was fired from the position. He led Real Madrid to seven straight league victories, bringing them right back to the title chase, but they lost by four points over FC Barcelona.

Real Madrid's season began brightly in the following years. Luxemburgo's demise began with the introduction of a new form (the Magic Rectangle, a 4–2–2–2) formation), but not only did it come as a result of multiple injuries and poor results, but it was also responsible for Luxemburgo's poor results. After a humiliating 0-3 home loss to long-time rivals Barcelona, calls for him to resign were amplified.

Juan Ramón López Caro, who was fired on December 5, was fired by Real Madrid on December 5, 2005.

Luxemburgo has signed a three-year deal with Santos, leading the team to the 2006 Série A Championship and fourth place in the Série A.

In 2007, he played for Santos and captured the So Paulo State Championship for the second time. He also saw Santos in the semi-finals of the 2007 Copa Libertadores, winning all the matches and excluding strong teams, such as Caracas, in the quarter-finals before losing to Grêmio in the semis. In the Série A, Luxemburgo came in second place. He led Santos to a Copa Libertadores berth in both 2006 and 2007.

Luxemburgo left Santos at the end of 2007. For the third time in a row, he signed with Palmeiras in 2008 and won the So Paulo State Championship.

He was barred from the Sudamericana by Argentinos Juniors and from the Brazilian Cup by Sport Recife, the eventual champions. In the 2008 Série A, he reached fourth place with Palmeiras in a very competitive season, earning the club a spot in the Libertadores.

In 2009, Luxemburgo joined Palmeiras for the remainder. He led the team to a fruitful season in the So Paulo State Championship, but Santos lost in the semi-finals to Santos. He won a place in the Round of 16 by beating Colo-Colo 1–0 in Santiago, with Cleiton Xavier scoring a last-minute goal in the direction of Colo-Colo's goalkeeper. Palmeiras beat Sport Recife on penalties in the Round of 16, but Nacional from Uruguay's away goal ended them both matches, 1–1 at home and 0–0 away.

Luxemburgo's 2009 Série A Luxemburgo started well in the competition, but Luxemburgo was barred from Palmeiras in the seventh round of the tournament after an incident involving young striker Keirrison.

After a one and a half years absence, he was recalled as Santos' Head Coach on July 17, 2009, and the coach left Santos, finishing 12th in the league, to Atlético Mineiro on December 7, 2009.

Vanderlei Luxemburgo was appointed as the Flamengo's new head coach on October 5th and led the team until February 2012.

Luxemburgo had been handling Grêmio Foot-Ball Porto Alegrense until December 2012. Luxemburgo was suspended for six games in this competition after being involved in a brawl between Grêmio and Huachipato for the Libertadores Cup on April 29th.

Luxemburgo was fired by the Grêmio's directors on June 29, 2013.

Luxemburgo joined Fluminense FC, a carioca team that had been dismissed Abel Braga one day before. Luxemburgo defended his predecessor, calling him "winner" and remarking on his departure, a "brazilian football" tradition. To return, the coach intends that his players be "wretched with losses." After a long winning streak, Fluminense FC fired Luxemburgo on November 12th. Fluminense was ranked 18th in the Brazilian Série A at the time and was under relegation threat.

Luxemburgo was appointed as the Flamengo's new head coach on July 23, 2014, with the intention of lowering a historic low point record at the start of the Brazilian national league (Brasileiro). Luxa was ultimately successful in steering the club's fight against relegation, winning coveted points in the tournament and advancing the team to the top half of the table.

Vanderlei Luxemburgo was appointed as the next head coach of Cruzeiro Esporte Clube on June 2, 2015, but the club was fired after poor results on August.

Vanderlei Luxemburgo was appointed as a new head coach of Tianjin Songjiang on September 23rd, 2015. He was fired the following June 5th, with the club now in the eighth position, and Fabio Cannavaro was subsequently named in his place.

Luxemburgo was appointed as the new head coach Recife on May 29th, 2017 and the team won the Campeonato Pernambucano of the year. He was dismissed from his duties on October 26th, after a poor run of form.

Luxemburgo was appointed head coach of Vasco da Gama on May 8, 2019, committing to a deal until the year's end. He left the club on December 13 after helping the team prevent relegation.

Luxemburgo signed a two-year deal with Palmeiras on December 15, the club's first game in 11 years after 11 years. He won the 2020 Campeonato Paulista with the club for the fifth time and ninth overall, beating Lula as the tournament's best head coach.

Luxemburgo was fired on October 14, 2020, after a 1–3 home loss to Coritiba.

Luxemburgo was recalled to Vasco da Gama in 2020, according to a deal that will continue until the end of the Campeonato Brasileiro Série A season, which will run until the end of the 2020 Campeonato Brasileiro Série A season.

Luxemburgo returned to Cruzeiro on August 3rd, 2021, with the team now in the Série B.

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