Fifa World Cup 2018: If football coaches were Russian dolls, who would be the biggest?
June 14, 2018
Marco HernandezRussian stacking dolls are known in their homeland as matryoshka, which means “little matrons”. Here, the coaches of each of the national sides in soccer’s World Cup are transformed into little matrons to show their record as managers
The matryoshkas explained
The waistline of each matryoshka is set according to the percentage of wins a coach has enjoyed since taking charge of his team
WINNING PERCENTAGE
What the decorations mean
This data is from the evening before the start of the World Cup. The decorations represent various types of footballing experience of each coach. Toggle the section to find out everything you need to know about each national coach
MATCHES MANAGED
Coaches as players
Positions the coaches occupied as professional players
Players used
Diagonal lines represent the number of players a coach has fielded during his tenure
Open dolls
Each stack depicts the national teams a coach has managed
Click the doll coach to get details, or look for a team in the menu above
54.5% Jorge Sampaoli 6 -
3 -
2
50.0% Bert van Marwijk 2 -
1 -
1
70.0% Roberto Martinez 14 -
5 -
1
81.0% "Tite" Adenor Bacchi 17 -
3 -
1
55.4% Jose Pekerman 41 -
17 -
16
46.5% Oscar Ramirez 20 -
10 -
13
57.1% Zlatko Dalic 4 -
1 -
2
52.2% Age Hareide 12 -
7 -
4
57.1% Hector Cuper 20 -
6 -
9
57.1% Gareth Southgate 8 -
4 -
2
61.8% Didier Deschamps 47 -
14 -
15
66.7% Joachim Loew 108 -
29 -
25
50.0% Heimir Hallgrimsson 11 -
3 -
8
61.5% Carlos Queiroz 48 -
20 -
10
33.3% Akira Nishino 1 -
0 -
2
64.6% Juan Carlos Osorio 31 -
9 -
8
59.3% Herve Renard 16 -
6 -
5
50.0% Gernot Rohr 8 -
3 -
5
36.2% Hernan Gomez 25 -
19 -
25
47.6% Ricardo Gareca 20 -
11 -
11
55.3% Adam Nawalka 26 -
13 -
8
66.7% Fernando Santos 34 -
7 -
10
25.0% Stanislav Cherchesov 5 -
6 -
9
33.3% Juan Antonio Pizzi 3 -
2 -
4
57.1% Aliou Cisse 16 -
8 -
4
50.0% Mladen Krstajic 2 -
0 -
2
31.3% Shin Tae-yong 5 -
6 -
5
0% Fernando Hierro 0 -
0 -
0
47.8% Janne Andersson 11 -
6 -
6
62.5% Vladimir Petkovic 25 -
6 -
9
50.0% Nabil Maaloul 5 -
4 -
1
45.9% Oscar Tabarez 62 -
32 -
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