Diego the 'Cholo' Simeone was chosen like the best trainer of clubs of the last decade (2011-2020) by the International Federation of History and Statistical of Football (IFFHS). The technician of the Athletic of Madrid obtained a total of 152 points, what sufficed him to surpass to his escorts Pep Guardiola and Jürgen Klopp with 144 and 105 points, respectively. In this vote took into account so much the 'Top-20' of every year, like the punctuations.
The 'Cholo' great 502 duels contested to the control of the bench of the team 'colchonero', the second with the highest figure afterwards of Luis Aragonese, with a bagaje of 302 victories, 118 ties and 82 defeats. They subtract him 110 to equalise to the legend of the institution rojiblanca, that comandó to the Athletic in 612 parties.
Until the moment, Simeone has conquered seven titles with the Athletic: A League, a Glass of Rey, two Europe League, two Supercopas of Europe and one of Spain. Besides, it carried to the team to two finals of the Champions League in 2014 and 2016.
With his particular style of game, Simeone has been signalled and praised by the rigorous defensive game implemented in the Athletic of Madrid, that has resulted him to carry to the club to the highest of the maximum competition to level of clubs of the world, although the 'Orejona' has escaped him in both opportunities.
The big technicians that remained left behind
The result surprises when noticing that technicians that have won it everything with his respective clubs during his career, remained left behind in the table. Pep Guardiola, considered by many like the best trainer, remained in the second place, and in the third square situated the strategist that carried to the European cusp to the Liverpool, Jürgen Klopp.
José Mourinho, Maximiliano Allegri, Unai Emery, Zinedine Zidane, Carlo Ancelotti, Mauritius Pochettino and the trainer of River Plate of Argentina, Marcelo Gallardo, conform the Top 10 of the Federation that stood out to the best technicians of the decade.
THE TOP-20 OF THE DECADE
- Diego Pablo Simeone 152 points
- Pep Guardiola 144 points
- Jürgen Klopp 105 points
- José Mourinho 91 points
- Massimiliano Allegri 77 points
- Unai Emery 70 points
- Zinedine Zidane 59 points
- Carlo Ancelotti 57 points
- Mauritius Pochettino 56 points
- Marcelo Gallardo 56 points
- Antonio Conte 53 points
- Claudio Ranieri 36 points
- Alex Ferguson 35 points
- Luis Enrique 35 points
- Jupp Heynckes 34 points
- Ernesto Valverde 26 points
- Arsene Wenger 25 points
- Leonardo Jardim 25 points
- Jesse Marsch 22 points
- Laurent Blanc 21 points