Abel, from Palmeiras, is voted 13th best coach in the world by an English magazine; Tite is in 40th | palm trees

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Multi-champion and record holder for Palmeiras, coach Abel Ferreira is in 13th place in the ranking of the 50 best coaches in the world, published by the English magazine FourFourTwo, this week.

The Portuguese appears ahead of names like Thomas Tuchel, from Bayern, Didier Deschamps, from the French team, and Xavi, from Barcelona. He is the first of two coaches working in Brazilian football, alongside Tite, who is at Flamengo and appears 40th on the list.

In the magazine’s assessment, Abel Ferreira is seen as a coach who has the energy of a Duracell rabbit on the edge of the field and who transformed Palmeiras’ mentality into serial winners.

– So the comparisons with José Mourinho are appropriate, to say the least… But he is rooted in empathy and academy football – says an excerpt from the text.

Since October 2020 at Palmeiras, Abel Ferreira has won ten titles and was crowned the greatest champion among Verdão coaches at the beginning of this year, alongside Osvaldo Brandão.

There were three Paulistas (2022, 2023 and 2024), two Brazilians (2022 and 2023), one Copa do Brasil (2020), one Supercup do Brasil (2023), one Recopa Sul-Americana (2022) and two Libertadores (2020 and 2021 ).

Individually, in 2024 he also achieved a milestone that he pursued as a personal goal: the trophy for best coach in the Campeonato Paulista, which he had lost in the 2022 and 2023 editions, despite the titles won with the team.

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Ranked 40th and the only Brazilian on the list, Tite is seen as a coach capable of finding “harmony with samba stars” and says that his time as Brazil’s coach shows this. He has been at Flamengo since October last year and has 22 wins, six draws and seven defeats in 35 matches.

1. Pep Guardiola
2. Jurgen Klopp
3. Xabi Alonso
4. Carlo Ancelotti
5. Unai Emery
6. Mikel Arteta
7. Simone Inzaghi
8. Luis Enrique
9. Diego Simeone
10. Julian Nagelsmann
11. Eddie Howe
12. Roberto DeZerbi
13. Abel Ferreira
14. Thomas Tuchel
15. Sebastian Hoeness
16. Ruben Amorim
17. Ange Postecoglou
18. Didier Deschamps
19. Michel (Miguel Angel Sanchez)
20. Arne Slot
21. Imanol Alguacil
22. Vincenzo Italiano
23. Thiago Motta
24. Andoni Iraola
25. Gian Piero Gasperini
26. Xavi Hernandez
27. Marco Rose
28. Gary O’Neil
29. Edin Terzic
30. Ivan Juric
31. Eric Roy
32. Addi Hutter
33. Roger Schmidt
34. Thomas Frank
35. Massimiliano Allegri
36. Erik ten Hag
37. Marco Silva
38. David Moyes
39. Ernesto Valverde
40. Tite
41. Luciano Spalletti
42. Peter Bosz
43. Gareth Southgate
44. Mauricio Pochettino
45. Sergio Conceição
46. Frank Schmidt
47. Kieran McKenna
48. Stefano Pioli
49. Roberto Martinez
50. Christian Streich

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