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Updated: 2005-12-14 08:59

COACHED BRAZIL

Luxemburgo won the championship with Corinthians in 1998 and later the same year fulfilled his dream of coaching Brazil when he was appointed after the World Cup in France.

However, his spell in charge of the national team ended after two years which mixed poor results and performances with scandal over his financial affairs.

Brazil lost their way as an indecisive Luxemburgo chopped and changed his side, losing World Cup qualifiers to Paraguay and Chile in 2000.

The final straw came when the under-23 team, also coached by Luxemburgo, lost to nine-man Cameroon in the quarter-finals of the Sydney Olympics.

Luxemburgo, already swamped by allegations from a former business associate about unethical behaviour earlier in his career, was dismissed before being grilled by a Congressional commission inquiry.

The investigators, probing Brazilian football's finances, questioned Luxemburgo over his tax returns in a session broadcast live on television.

But Luxemburgo, a bitter personal rival of Brazil's other internationally well-known coach Luiz Felipe Scolari, waited for the storm to die down and bounced back by winning the championship with Cruzeiro in 2003.