Who has won EURO as player and coach?
Monday, January 1, 2024
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Only Berti Vogts has won a EURO as a player and a coach.
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Who has won EURO as a player and coach?
Only one man has won a UEFA European Championship as player and coach: step forward Berti Vogts.
The former Borussia Mönchengladbach defender was a member of the victorious West Germany squad in 1972. He did not get any playing time in Belgium but, after hanging up his boots, Vogts was in the thick of things as he guided Die Mannschaft to runners-up at Sweden '92. He and Germany went one better four years later, defeating the Czech Republic in the final of EURO '96.
Who could have joined the club at EURO 2024?
There were two former winners among the coaches at EURO 2024: France's Didier Deschamps and Netherlands' Ronald Koeman. Deschamps captained Les Bleus to victory at EURO 2000, and he is only the third man to win a FIFA World Cup as a player (France, 1998) and coach (Russia, 2018). However, his side lost 2-1 to Spain in the semi-finals of EURO 2024.
Koeman marshalled the Oranje back line at their successful EURO '88 final. He returned for a second stint in charge of his nation in 2023, and like France his team made it to the EURO 2024 final four, but they were ultimately defeated 2-1 by England.
Which other EURO 2024 coaches have been to a EURO as players?
England boss Gareth Southgate helped the Three Lions reach the semi-finals of EURO '96 on home turf, where they lost in a dramatic penalty shoot-out against Vogts' Germany.
The other coaches who featured at EURO 2024 who have also been to the finals as players are Serbia boss Dragan Stojković (who was 19 when he went to the 1984 finals with Yugoslavia), Switzerland's Murat Yakin (who retired from international football after playing at EURO 2004), Türkiye's Vincenzo Montella (who played for Italy at EURO 2000) and Georgia's Willy Sagnol (who was part of the France squad at EURO 2004 and EURO 2008).