#2 Vicente del Bosque
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‘A quiet, unassuming, moustachioed veteran from Salamanca’ is hardly the description of the only man in football to have won the FIFA World Cup, the Euros, the Intercontinental Cup (now the FIFA Club World Cup) and the UEFA Champions League as manager. Vicente del Bosque, however, is a singular man among many.
Real Madrid were fresh off of ending their 32-year wait for a European title in 1998 but were still struggling to replicate the success of the 1950s and 1960s. Enter Del Bosque.
The Madrid boss ushered in a 4-year spell of success at the turn of the millennium - a feat that looked impossible when John Toshack was sacked midway through the 1999/2000 season, with del Bosque taking over full-time (after a couple of temporary spells in charge of the club in 1994 and 1996).
2 UEFA Champions League titles (2000 and 2002), 2 La Liga trophies (2001 and 2003, ending a 5-year wait for the league title), a Spanish Super Cup and an Intercontinental Cup was Del Bosque’s legacy, as he ushered in the era of the Galacticos. However, Florentino Perez is Florentino Perez, and just a day after Real Madrid won the 2003 La Liga title, Vicente del Bosque was let go in one of the biggest blunders ever made by the club, who went the next four seasons without any major trophy.
