The famous magazine FourFourTwo included Mircea Lucescu in the list of the best managers who did not win the Champions League, and the Romanian technician is in a better position than Didier Deschamps (winner of the World Cup with France in 2018).

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Mircea Lucescu, 6th in the list of the best coaches who did not win the Champions League

The Romanian coach ranks 6th in the top of the British. At the age of 77, Lucescu is currently coaching Dynamo Kyiv and has also participated in the most important European tournament with Galatasaray, Shakhtar, Inter, Besiktas and Rapid Bucharest.

“Only six managers have reached 100 Champions League appearances and Lucescu is one of those elite group. “The fact that he hasn’t even come close to winning the competition – he reached the quarter-finals with Galatasaray and Shakhtar Donetsk, the best figures in this chapter – is in no way a reflection of his coaching ability.

Apart from a brief spell at Inter Milan, Lucescu hasn’t coached teams you’d expect to win this competition. However, it was a resounding success.

A multi-national champion with various clubs, the 77-year-old technician enjoyed the best period of his career at Shakhtar, where he formed an amazingly cohesive team of Ukrainian defenders and Brazilian forwards, winning eight national championship titles and the club’s first European trophy, the UEFA Cup , in 2009″, sheet music FourFourTwo.

Mircea Lucescu also coached Corvinul Hunedoara, Dinamo Bucharest, Pisa, Brescia, Regiana and Zenit St. Petersburg. He was also the coach of Romania and Turkey.

The best coaches who did not win the Champions League

1. Diego Simeone (“Atletico” Madrid)

2. Arsene Wenger (“Monaco”/”Arsenal”)

3. Valery Lobanovskyi (Dynamo Kyiv)

4. Bobby Robson (Porto, Newcastle)

5. Massimiliano Allegri (Milan, Juventus)

6. Mircea Lucescu (Galatasaray, Shakhtar, Inter, Besiktas, Rapid, Dynamo Kyiv)

7. Kenny Dalglish (Newcastle)

8. Otto Rehagel (“Werder”, “Kaiserslautern”)

9. Didier Deschamps (Monaco, Marseille)

10. Unai Emery (Spartak Moscow, Valencia, Sevilla, PSG, Arsenal, Villarreal)

11. Antonio Conte (“Juventus”, “Chelsea”, “Inter”, “Tottenham”).