Ghana Coach Queiroz Enters Record Books With 5th Successive World Cup

16 June 2026
Ghanaian Times (Accra)

Carlos Queiroz is still one tournament short of matching the record for coaching at the World Cup, but the 73-year-old will still enter the record books this week.

Queiroz takes charge of Ghana as they begin their Group L campaign against Panama in Toronto on Wednesday and continues a run that began with Portugal in 2010 and saw him also coach Iran at three successive World Cups in 2014, 2018, and 2022.

The run matches the record five tournaments in a row that Bora Milutinović set from 1986 to 2002 when he was at the helm of five different national teams.

Brazilian Carlos Alberto Parreira has the record number of World Cup appearances as a coach with ⁠six, but not successively.

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Queiroz was not scheduled to go to the tournament in Canada, Mexico and the United States until April when Ghana appointed him in place of Otto Addo, fired in March after a series of disappointing friendly results.

Before the sudden call from the Ghanaians, it looked as if his long career, including coaching Real Madrid and working as Alex Ferguson's assistant at Manchester United, had ended, with his last job having been in Oman, the eighth different country whose national team he had taken charge of.

His cerebral and technical approach contrasts with a bellicose demeanour on the side of the pitch, where he can sometimes look like a pantomime villain, although ⁠others have found him uninspiring.

Queiroz is hailed in his native Portugal as a trendsetter, laying the foundation for their prodigious youth output.

He made his name when leading Portugal to back-to-back U-20 World Cup titles in 1989 and 1991, and bringing on a generation of outstanding footballers like Luís Figo, Paulo Sousa, and João Pinto, and ⁠is now looking to crown a storied career by taking Ghana as far as he can at the World Cup.

"I am prepared for this," he said when he accepted the job. "I bring 40 years of experience to every decision that will be made."- Reuters

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