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Jose Mourinho and Pep Guardiola.
- France Football, a soccer magazine in Europe, has ranked the top coaches in the sport's history.
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A French soccer magazine has published a list of the best coaches in the history of world soccer.
France Football used a criteria of trophies won, personality, and how the manager influenced the sport and other coaches in order to produce the ranking.
As some managers at the top of the list have won fewer major trophies than those at the bottom, it appears that influence - whether that be through nutrition, tactics, or soccer ideology - is the favored way of ranking the coaches.
Manchester City manager Pep Guardiola, Real Madrid boss Zinedine Zidane, and the currently unemployed coach Jose Mourinho all feature prominently in France Football's list, but in what order?
Keep scrolling to to see the top 22, ranked in ascending order.