Carlos Alberto Parreira

Carlos Alberto Parreira

Parreira in 2010
Personal information
Full name	Carlos Alberto Gomes Parreira
Date of birth	(1943-02-27) 27 February 1943 (age 73)
Place of birth	Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Teams managed
Years	Team
1967	Ghana
1974	Fluminense
1975	Fluminense
1978–1982	Kuwait
1983	Brazil
1984	Fluminense
1985–1988	United Arab Emirates
1988–1990	Saudi Arabia
1990–1991	United Arab Emirates
1991	Bragantino
1991–1994	Brazil
1994–1995	Valencia
1995–1996	Fenerbahçe
1996	São Paulo
1997	MetroStars
1998	Saudi Arabia
1999–2000	Fluminense
2000	Atlético Mineiro
2000	Santos
2001–2002	Internacional
2002–2003	Corinthians
2003–2006	Brazil
2007–2008	South Africa
2009	Fluminense
2009–2010	South Africa
2012–2014	Brazil (technical director)

Carlos Alberto Gomes Parreira (born 27 February 1943, in Rio de Janeiro) is a Brazilian former football manager. He managed Brazil to victory at the 1994 World Cup, the 2004 Copa América, and the 2005 Confederations Cup. He was last manager of the South Africa national football team.

Parreira supports Fluminense, and he has won two league titles for the club: The First Division Brazilian Championship in 1984 and the Third Division in 1999. About the latter title, Parreira has said that this was personally the most important trophy of his career, even more so than Brazil's World Cup triumph, as the club he loved was facing near-bankruptcy and became very close to extinction at the time.

Parreira is one of two coaches that has led five national teams to the World Cup: Kuwait in 1982, United Arab Emirates in 1990, Brazil in 1994 and 2006, Saudi Arabia in 1998 and South Africa in 2010. The other coach, Bora Milutinović, reached this record when he led a fifth team in 2002. Parreira was also involved with the 1970 championship team for Brazil, which he claims was an inspiration for him to aspire to be a national football coach.