Former head coach of Shakhtar Mircea Lucescu took offense at the rating of the 100 best coaches in the world in football history from FourFourTwo magazine.

According to the rating, Lucescu took 87th place. " I've always had problems with the British. I know that in the ranking of all time compiled by UEFA and FIFA, I was somewhere in 40th place. Exactly in the top 50. I think these experts know better, "

Note that Valery Lobanovsky was in the top 10 of this rating. And the first place was taken by Sir Alex Ferguson. Among those remaining in the top ten: Rinus Michels, Johan Cruyff, Bill Shankly, Pep Guardiola, Arrigo Sacchi, Matt Busby, Elenio Herrera, Ernst Happel.

In 2019, Lucescu received a portion of criticism from representatives of Ukrainian football after he said that Lobanovsky’s place in the top ten in the ranking of the best coaches is not true. Then he apologized for his words.