21 Facts About Muricy Ramalho

Muricy Ramalho was born on 30 November 1955 and is a Brazilian former football coach and player who is the current sporting director of Sao Paulo.

Between 2006 and 2008, Ramalho led Sao Paulo to three consecutive national championships.

Muricy Ramalho is known by his paulistano accent, usually speaking expressions from this dialect.

Muricy Ramalho was not called up for the 1978 World Cup due to a knee injury.

Muricy Ramalho started his head coaching career as the head coach of Mexican club Puebla.

Muricy Ramalho managed several clubs, including Sao Paulo, his former club as a player, and Internacional.

Muricy Ramalho was the Sao Paulo youth squad head coach between 1994 and 1996.

Muricy Ramalho was the manager of the Sao Paulo team that won the Copa CONMEBOL in 1994.

Muricy Ramalho was the head coach of Sao Paulo for three years, winning the Serie A three times in a row.

Muricy Ramalho led Fluminense to win that year's Brazilian League title, the club's third national championship, and his fourth as a manager.

Muricy Ramalho led Santos to the 2011 Campeonato Paulista title and later to the 2011 Copa Libertadores title.

On November 2,2013, in an interview with Brazilian newspaper O Estado de S Paulo, Ramalho affirmed the following words:.

Muricy Ramalho was appointed head coach of Flamengo in early 2016, but was forced to resign due to poor health in May of that year.

Muricy Ramalho was replaced by Flamengo U-20 coach Ze Ricardo.

Muricy Ramalho said that European coaches would only score top marks in his book once they had the same success when coaching a Brazilian side.

In February 2013, the media reported that Muricy Ramalho engaged in a verbal exchange with Neymar and Joey Barton.

In May 2013, Muricy Ramalho spoke about a fake profile on the social network Facebook that has a lot of friends.

In July 2013, two months after leaving Santos, Muricy Ramalho said that if he was to work in Europe, he would have been given a 30-year contract and would have a statue dedicated to him afterwards because even "[Arsene] Wenger can coach Arsenal for almost 15 years having had so little success".

Also in July 2013, in a new interview, Muricy Ramalho spoke about players he had previously coached.

Muricy Ramalho is known for his roughness and lack of patience with bad journalists and those who work to create a controversy where one does not exist.

Muricy Ramalho said he was ten times better than the present players of Sao Paulo.