Lionel Scaloni, the coach of the Argentina national team who won the 2022 World Cup in Qatar, won the award for the best coach for a national team in the world for the year 2022, according to the referendum conducted by the International Federation of Football History and Statistics (iffhs).

Scaloni won this award after he scored 240 points, far outperforming his closest competitor, French coach Didier Deschamps, who collected only 45 points, while Walid Rekragui, coach of the Moroccan national team, came in third place.

The Argentine coach, 44, was crowned with this award to succeed Italian Roberto Mancini, who won it in 2021, after winning the European Cup (Euro 2020) with Italy.

Lionel Scaloni 🇦🇷 last season as the best entrenador of 2022 for the Federación Internacional de Historia y Estadística de Fútbol (IFFHS).

El top 5:

1️⃣🇦🇷Scaloni 240 PTS


2️⃣🇨🇵Deschamps 45 PTS


3️⃣🇲🇦Regragui 30 PTS


4️⃣🇭🇷Dalic 20 PTS


5️⃣🇯🇵Moriyasu 15 PTS pic.twitter.com/ZzXwZLgtv6

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Scaloni and his players succeeded in overcoming the loss suffered by "Tango" in the first match of the Qatar World Cup 2022, which came against Saudi Arabia 1-2 at Lusail Stadium.

After that, the Argentine national team defeated Mexico and Poland in the second and third rounds of the first round, to top the Group C standings.

Under the leadership of Scaloni, the Argentine national team managed to overcome the hurdle of Australia in the final price, then the Netherlands with a penalty shootout in the quarter-finals, followed by a great victory over Croatia in the semi-finals with three clean goals, and finally the exciting victory over France with a penalty shootout in the final.

Scaloni took over the task of coaching the Argentine national team on August 2, 2018, in a temporary deal, before the local federation decided to install him officially.

Since that time, Scaloni has led Argentina to break the Copa America knot by winning the championship in the summer of 2021, after losing in the semi-finals of the same tournament against Brazil in 2019.

Scaloni then crowned the European Latin Super Championship, known as “Vinalissima”, by defeating Italy at Wembley Stadium in the summer of 2022, before ending the same year by winning the World Cup.

Walid Al-Rakraki Third

Walid Regragui, the coach of the Moroccan national team, scored 33 points and ranked third in the list of the best national team coach in the world last year.

Rekragui became the first African coach to obtain this advanced status, according to the International Federation of Football History and Statistics.

Regragui - who took over Morocco's training in late August 2022 - led the "Atlas Lions" to the World Cup semi-finals and achieved fourth place in the Qatar World Cup.

Walid Regragui led the Moroccan national team to fourth place in the 2022 World Cup (Reuters)

The Moroccan national team, with its coach Regragui, is the first Arab and African team to reach this advanced stage of the World Cup.

In the referendum, Rekragui beat Zlatko Dalic, coach of the Croatian national team, who came fourth with 20 points.

The holders of positions from fifth to tenth in the list are:

  • Japan coach Hajime Moriyasu

  • Netherlands coach Louis van Gaal

  • US coach Greg Berhalter

  • Saudi coach Hervé Renard

  • Brazil coach Tite

  • Portuguese coach Paulo Bento, South Korea.