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A total of 422 players have been in the winning team in the World Cup. Brazil's Pelé is the only one to have won it three times, while another 20 have won twice.
19 different coaches have won the World Cup, with Italy's Vittorio Pozzo the only one to have won the tournament on two occasions. Every edition of the tournament has been won by a coach leading the team of his own country.
Four other men have finished as winners and runners-up once in different capacities and we take a look at the four who have achieved this historic feat.
#4 Franz Beckenbauer
At 20-years-old, Franz Beckenbauer aka Der Kaiser would play in his first World Cup in England in 1966. Die Mannschaft breezed through to the final but came undone by the English on home soil in the final. In 1972, where West Germany, now captained by Der Kaiser, lifted their first international trophy in 18 years; the European Championship.
2 years later it was the self-hosted World Cup tournament in 1974 which saw Beckenbauer become the first captain to lead a nation to the titles of both champions of Europe as well as the world; only a feat mimicked twice since; France in 2000 and Spain in 2010.
However, his love affair with football on the world's stage was not through, as in 1990, the final competition before West Germany's reunification with East Germany, Beckenbauer became the second man to lift the World Cup as both a player and a manager.
#3 Helmut Schon
Former West German manager Helmut Schon’s track record is great and unique. At his first World Cup as head coach, he immediately stepped out of Herberger’s shadow, as West Germany finished runners-up to England in 1966.
Die Mannschaft finished in third place four years later after suffering a semi-final defeat by Italy in what was dubbed the ‘Match of the Century’. However, the golden era in which Germany won Euro 1972 and the 1974 World Cup followed. ‘The Man in the Cap’ as Schon most commonly known became the most successful coach in Germany’s history.
There are only three other national team managers in the history of the game who could match Schon's record: Italy’s Vittorio Pozzo, who won back-to-back World Cups in 1934 and 1938; Spaniard Vicente del Bosque, who became a world champion in 2010 and a European champion in 2012; and Joachim Low, who led his team to a third-place finish in 2010 before lifting the Trophy in 2014. However, none of them can boast any additional podium finishes but Low has the chance to do so in Russia this year.
His record at these tournaments was remarkable, with 16 wins, five draws and four defeats in four World Cups.
#2 Carlos Bilardo
"I silenced many critics who had said I was mad for changing the national team's system of play to 3-5-2 in 1984 - an almost revolutionary formula at the time," he said. When he was appointed Argentina coach in 1982. Bilardo's style was the antithesis to his successor Cesar Menotti, whose Argentina side's swashbuckling style earned them the world title in 1978.
To Bilardo, winning was all that mattered and it didn't matter how it was achieved, ideas honed as a player in an Estudiantes side whose outlook on fair play was slightly more flexible than others. However, the manager guided Argentina to two consecutive World Cup final appearances in 86 and 90.
Argentina may never have had one of its most influential coaches had he maintained his academic interests.
"I studied medicine and worked as a gynecologist for five or six years.
"Medicine has always fascinated me. I played football while I was studying and working in a hospital. One day I was faced with a decision because I couldn't be here, there and everywhere. I plumped for football."
#1 Mario Zagallo
The great history of Brazilian football is linked with one Mario Zagallo. 'The Professor,' as he is known to his players, is a legend not only in his homeland but all-round the world, having played a role in four of the five FIFA World Cups won by the Seleçao. If there is one thing that silences all the critics, though, it is the long list of honors Zagallo has accumulated over the years.
The Brazilian's fingerprints on four FIFA World Cup trophies speak for themselves. A true icon of the Brazilian game, he won two of them as a player in Sweden 58 and Chile 62, one as national manager in 1970 and another as an assistant manager in 1994. Only German legend Franz Beckenbauer in the history of world football can match Zagallo's feat of having been crowned world champion as both a player and a coach.
Zagallo was a coach and finished runners-up in the 1998 final defeat to France in France that also happened to be his last contribution to the national team.
