WORLD CUP RECORDS (Part 7) - MOST WORLD CUP GAMES COMBINED
Pictures : Mario Zagallo and Franz Beckenbauer as players (picture up) and as coaches (picture down).
Most games as player and coach combined: Franz Beckenbauer and Mário Zagallo
*Franz Beckenbauer and Mário Zagallo have held 32 games each at World Cups as players and head coaches in total. They are joint record holders of the competition in this category.
*They two won the World Cups in both qualities: Beckenbauer in 1974 as a player, in 1990 as a head coach of Germany, Zagallo in 1958, 1962 as a player, in 1970 as a head coach of Brazil.
Apart from them, Didier Deschamps achieved the same with France in 1998 (player) and 2018 (coach).
*From 7 persons with 25+ games in two roles combined, 5 are Germans. Jürgen Klinsmann is the only one of them who coached a country different from his homeland (United States in 2014).
*From the men who featured at World Cups as both players and head coaches, Beckenbauer, Zagallo, Klinsmann, Vogts, Maradona and Henry Michel took part in 5 editions in total.
| MOST WORLD CUP | GAMES | AS PLAYER AND COACH | ||||
| Player | Country | Games | Total | Breakdown | ||
| Player | Coach | |||||
| 1 | Franz Beckenbauer | Germany | 18 | 14 | 32 | 1966(6), 1970(5), 1974(7) + 1986(7), 1990(7) |
| Mário Zagallo | Brazil | 12 | 20 | 32 | 1958(6), 1962(6) + 1970(7), 1974(7), 1998(7) | |
| 3 | Berti Vogts | Germany | 19 | 10 | 29 | 1970(6), 1974(7), 1978(6) + 1994(5), 1998(5) |
| 4 | Jürgen Klinsmann | Germany | 17 | 11 | 28 | 1990(7), 1994(5), 1998(5) + 2006(7), 2014(4) |
| 5 | Diego Maradona | Argentina | 21 | 5 | 26 | 1982(5), 1986(7), 1990(7), 1994(2) + 2010(5) |
| 6 | Lothar Matthäus | Germany | 25 | 0 | 25 | 1982(2), 1986(7), 1990(7), 1994(5), 1998(4) |
| Helmut Schön | Germany | 0 | 25 | 25 | 1966(6), 1970(6), 1974(7), 1978(6) |