The football coach Luiz Felipe Scolari, Felipão, or Big Phil, as he became known when he coached Chelsea in the Premier League, is one of the most successful sportspeople in the world. And one more Italian-Brazilian to stand out in your profession.
According to the Italian website Cognomix, the family name Scolari derives from a nickname linked to the Latin term school (school). Present since the Middle Ages, the nickname referred to the member of a group of disciples of a master craftsman, who began to use the name and passed it on to the descendants.
Quotes about the surname Scolari
The historian and politician Dino Compagni, who lived in Italy between 1255 and 1324, mentions the Scolari family in his text “Chronicle of Things that Happen in Their Time”.
Some members of the family stand out in various records, such as Father Pietro Scolari, who was parish priest in Calvisano, city in the province of Brescia, in the region of Lombardia, between the years 1450 and 1460.
The surname Scolari is specific to the Lombardy region, with occurrences also in the city of Verona, in Veneto. The variant Scolaro has a Sicilian lineage, in the Messina area, as well as in several parts of the northern region of Italy.
Popularity
Cognomix indicates approximately 1615 Scolari families in Italy, with the regions with the most presence of the family being Lombardy (968), Veneto (196) and Piemonte (116)
The Scolari surname is the 457th most common in the Lombardy region, 152nd in popularity in the province of Brescia and the most common surname in the city of Marchirolo, which is in the province of Varese, in Lombardy.
Scolari's trajectory
Coach Luiz Felipe Scolari, coach of Athletico Paranaense, will play in the Copa Libertadores final against Flamengo on October 29, in Ecuador. Born in Deep step, in the interior of Rio Grande do Sul on November 8, 1948, he is 73 years old.
He began his career as a player at the age of 17 with Aimoré, a team from the city of São Leopoldo in Rio Grande do Sul. He was a defender, just like his father, Benjamin Scolari, who played for teams in the south of the country.
He was not considered skilled, but he stood out for his determination and leadership. He also played for Caxias, Juventude and Novo Hamburgo, ending his career at Alagoas CSAIn 1981.
The following year, still at CSA, he began coaching the team and won his first title, the Alagoas championship.
Scolari and gaucho football
After his first experience as a technician, he returned to gaucho football and played for Juventude, Brasil de Pelotas and Pelotas. Still in the 1980s, he gained prominence mainly in Juventude and went to coach Grêmio for the first time, where he won the Gaucho championship in 1987.
After a successful stint in Kuwait, he returned to Brazil to coach Criciúma and led the team to the league title. Copa do Brasil in 1991, the Santa Catarina team's greatest glory.
The coach Italian-Brazilian returned to Grêmio in 1993, where he won several titles, such as the 1994 Copa do Brasil, the Copa Libertadores de América 1995 and the 1996 Brazilian Championship, in addition to state titles.
In the 1995 Club World Cup, Felipão's team lost on penalties to Ajax, after a goalless draw and playing much of the game with one player less. At the time, the Dutch team had the basis of selection of the country that would compete in the 1998 World Cup.
Scolari era at Palmeiras
In 1997, after passage through Japan, Felipão went to Palmeiras, where he was runner-up in the Brazilian Championship in the same year, losing the title to Vasco, from the top scorer Edmundo.
In 1998, he started to win titles with Alviverde. He was champion of the Copa do Brasil and the Mercosur Cup, both titles beating Cruzeiro in the finals. Months later, in 1999, he won the Copa Libertadores, a hitherto unprecedented title for the Palmeiras.
In the Club World Cup, they finished runner-up, losing to Manchester United by the minimum score, with a badly disallowed goal from the club. sock Alex when the game was zero to zero.
In 2000, the last year of his first spell at the club, he went to the Libertadores final again and made an epic semi-final against Corinthians. Verdão eliminated their biggest rival on penalties, but ended up losing the title to Boca Juniors, , also on penalties.
Brazil National Team
Scolari was at Cruzeiro in 2001 when he was called for the first time to direct the Brazil National Team. When he took over, Brazil was doing poorly in the qualifiers. He ended up qualifying the Seleção, but was heavily criticized for not calling up Romário.
However, he won the 2002 World Cup in undefeated campaign and victory over Germany 2-0 in the final, with two goals from Ronaldo. Felipão took credit for betting on athletes like Ronaldo and Rivaldo, major highlights of the campaign.
School in Europe
In 2003, he went to coach the Portuguese team, which reached the final of the 2004 Euro Cup, being defeated by Greece in the final. Two years later, they reached the semi-finals of the German Cup and Portugal finished fourth, their biggest achievement since the 1966 World Cup.
The coach was one of those responsible for making the career of Cristiano Ronaldo take off. His friendship with the player is so strong that it was Scolari who gave Cristiano the news of his father's death in 2005, hours before a match between Portugal and Russia.
After Portugal's elimination to Germany in Euro 2008, Scolari left the Portuguese national team to take command of the Chelsea, his first top club in European football.
In December 2008, the coach helped the English team reach the historic mark of eleven consecutive victories away from home in the English Championship, eight of which were under his command, surpassing the old club record. Tottenham, which had resisted since 1960.
After a series of poor results, Felipão was fired from Chelsea on 9 February 2009.
Uzbekistan and return to Verdão
After playing football in the Uzbequistan, where he managed Bunyodkor between 2019 and 2020 and won the local championship undefeated, Felipão returned to Palmeiras.
In 2012 he led the team to undefeated victory in the Brazil Cupl, breaking a 12-year fast without national titles. However, he ended up leaving the club due to his poor form in the Brasileirão.
In the same year, his return to the Brazilian team was announced. After winning the Confederations Cup in 2013, Scolari was marked at the 2014 World Cup in Brazil by the team's biggest embarrassment in World Cups, when they lost 7-1 to Germany in the semi-final. In the dispute for third place, Brazil still lost The Netherlands by the 3 0.
Returns and final of the Libertadores
After 2014, Scolari returned to Grêmio, spent time at chinese football and also returned to Palmeiras, in his third spell at Alviverde, where he was Brazilian Champion in 2018.
After that, Scolari returned to Cruzeiro and, after the cycle in the Minas Gerais team ended, there was a fourth spell at Grêmio.
In May 2022, Scolari was hired to be technical director and coach of the Athletico Paranaense, which will compete on October 29th in the final of the Copa Libertadores da América against Flamengo, in Guayaquiu Monumental Stadium, in Ecuador.
Italian ancestry
Luiz Felipe Scolari, who also has training as a PE, in addition to his historic marks as a football coach, he is direct descendant of Italians.
Scolari's grandparents immigrated from the Veneto region, as did others thousands of Italians between the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th century. He has dual citizenship, being a Brazilian and an Italian citizen.
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