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The adventures of globetrotting coach Rudi Gutendorf

Gutendorf, who's known in his native Germany as 'The Diplomat in a Tracksuit', has coached 18 national teams and an array of clubs in a coaching career spanning half a century. He's coached the national teams of Chile, Bolivia, Venezuela, Trinidad & Tobago, Grenada, Antigua, Botswana, Australia, New Caledonia, Nepal - twice, Tonga, Tanzania, Ghana, Fiji, Zimbabwe, Mauritius, Rwanda and Samoa.

He's been telling World Football's Mani Djazmi about his many adventures, beginning with his time in Rwanda shortly after the mass slaughters of 1994.

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