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Zico, Japan
Three time South American Footballer of The Year. A dazzling career playing for Brazil with 48 goals in 71 matches. Former Brazilian sports secretary. Artur Antunes Coimbra, also known as Zico, certainly has a distinguished record.
But now, he is at the helm of the Japanese team and has steered the Asian team to three consecutive World Cups. And when the Japanese take on Brazil on Thursday, it will be interesting to see how Zico handles a team whose playing style he is only too familiar with.
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The high point of Zico's career as a coach so far has been seeing Japan lift the AFC Asian Cup in China in 2004. He, no doubt, has his goal set higher.
Image: Zico gives his defenders (from left) Yuichi Komano Tsuneyasu Miyamoto and Yuji Nakazawa some tips at a training session in Bonn. Photograph: Toshifumi Kitamura/AFP/Getty Images
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