Levir Culpi

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Levir Culpi (Curitiba, February 28, 1953) is a football manager and a former player.

He began his manager career as soon as he retired from football, in 1987, he coached Esporte Clube Juventude. He really started to show his abilities as a manager when he coached the top Paranaense clubs: Atlético Paranaense, Coritiba, and Paraná Clube.

He had more success leading Cruzeiro to the Copa do Brasil of 1996. Later he went to São Paulo there he won the Campeonato Paulista in 2000 and became runner-up in the Copa do Brasil. He brought Criciúma to Copa Libertadores in 1992 and took the team to the quarter-finals of the tournament.

Others teams he has managed are Portuguesa and the Japanese team Cerezo Osaka, in 1997.