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Difficult to find right coach for Real, says Perez
(Reuters)
Updated: 2005-12-14 08:59
COACHED BRAZIL
Luxemburgo won the championship with Corinthians in 1998
and later the same year fulfilled his dream of coaching Brazil when he was
appointed after the World Cup in France.
However, his spell in charge of the national team ended after two years which
mixed poor results and performances with scandal over his financial affairs.
Brazil lost their way as an indecisive Luxemburgo chopped and changed his
side, losing World Cup qualifiers to Paraguay and Chile in 2000.
The final straw came when the under-23 team, also coached by Luxemburgo, lost
to nine-man Cameroon in the quarter-finals of the Sydney Olympics.
Luxemburgo, already swamped by allegations from a former business associate
about unethical behaviour earlier in his career, was dismissed before being
grilled by a Congressional commission inquiry.
The investigators, probing Brazilian football's finances, questioned
Luxemburgo over his tax returns in a session broadcast live on television.
But Luxemburgo, a bitter personal rival of Brazil's other internationally
well-known coach Luiz Felipe Scolari, waited for the storm to die down and
bounced back by winning the championship with Cruzeiro in 2003.
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