Marcelo Bielsa, among the best recruiters of 2009

As I commented yesterday on the best coaches in 2009, according to the IFFHS, today it is the turn to the national team rankings.

Brazil's Dunga, who after a solid qualifying led to Scratch the World Cup, is located on the third. Marcelo Bielsa, coach of Chilean selected are fourth, thanks to great play made by his team and for having achieved a classification World Cup event after 12 years.

Other technical Latinos are included Mexican Javier Aguirre (position 20 °), along with Argentina's Gerardo Martino and Diego Maradona, who had the "honor? to close the list (position 22 °, shared with Shaibu Amodu, Nigeria, and Richard Lloyd Herbert, New Zealand)

The full list is:

1) Vicente del Bosque (Spain) 185
2) Fabio Capello (England) 151
3) Dunga (Brazil) 149
4) Marcelo Alberto Bielsa (Chile) 82
5) Robert Bradley (USA) 32
6) Bert van Marwick (Netherlands) 28
7) Ottmar Hitzfeld (Switzerland) 23
8) Otto Rehhagel (Greece) 18
9) Radomir Antic (Serbia) 17
10) Guss Hiddink (Russia) 17
11) Vladimir Weiss (Slovakia) 16
12) Matjaž Kek (Slovenia) 15
13) Marcello Lippi (Italy) 14
14) Joachim Löw (Germany) 11
15) Jong-Hun Kim (North Korea) 9
Rabah Saadane (Algeria) 9
17) Miroslav Blažević (Bosnia Herzegovina) 8
Morten Olsen (Denmark) 8
Giovanni Trapattoni (Ireland) 8
20) Javier Aguirre (Mexico) 7
Reinaldo Rueda Rivera (Honduras) 7
22) Shaibu Amodu (Nigeria) 5
Diego Armando Maradona (Argentina) 5
Daniel Gerardo Martino (Paraguay) 5
Richard Lloyd Herbert (New Zealand) 5

Photo: Half Time