Nelo Vingada
Vingada in 2014
Personal information
Full name Eduardo Manuel Martinho Bragança de Vingada
Date of birth (1953-03-30) 30 March 1953 (age 70)
Place of birth Serpa, Portugal
Height 1.71 m (5 ft 7 in)[1][2]
Position(s) Forward[1][2]
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1964–1974 Atlético CP
1974–1975 Sintrense
1975–1979 Belenenses
Managerial career
1981–1982 Belenenses
1982–1983 Académica
1983–1984 Sintrense
1984–1986 Vilafranquense
1988–1991 Portugal U-20 (assistant)
1993–1994 Portugal
1994–1995 Portugal U-20
1995–1996 Portugal Olympic
1996–1997 Saudi Arabia
1997–1998 Benfica (assistant)
1999–2003 Marítimo
2003–2004 Zamalek
2004–2005 Egypt Olympic
2005–2006 Académica
2007 Wydad Casablanca
2007–2009 Jordan
2009 Persepolis
2009 Al Ahly
2009 Vitória S.C.
2010 FC Seoul
2011–2012 Dalian Shide
2014 Iran (assistant)
2014 Iran Olympic
2016 Marítimo
2016–2017 NorthEast United
2017 Malaysia
2019 Kerala Blasters
Medal record
Men's football
Representing  Portugal (as manager)
UEFA European Under-21 Championship
Runner-up 1994
FIFA U-20 World Cup
Third place 1995
Representing  Saudi Arabia (as manager)
AFC Asian Cup
Winner 1996
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Eduardo Manuel "Nelo" Martinho Bragança de Vingada (born 30 March 1953) is a Portuguese football manager.

Managerial career

Early years

Vingada was born in Serpa. His first steps as a professional football manager were in Belenenses, and then in Académica de Coimbra in the 1982–83 season, when he was assistant manager for Mário Wilson at Académica. Sintrense and Vilafranquense were his following teams as a manager.[citation needed]

In the 1986–87 season, Vingada was appointed as an assistant manager for Portugal U-20 along with Carlos Queiroz. He was the assistant manager for the Portugal national squad in the World Youth Championships of 1989 in Riyadh and 1991 in Lisbon with Carlos Queiroz as head manager, both won by Portugal.[citation needed]

Portugal U-20

Vingada was appointed as a head manager for Portugal U-20 and his team participated in 1995 World Youth Championship. In this tournament, Portugal U-20 ended in the third place.[citation needed]

The Portugal Olympic football team under his management participated in the 1996 Atlanta Summer Olympics and after a win over Tunisia (2–0) and 1–1 draws against Argentina and the United States, they ended in second place in Group A with the same points and goal difference as the first-placed Argentinians (but with lesser goals scored). Then in the quarter-finals, a win over France (2–1) after extra-time assured them a place in the semi-finals. Once again they played against Argentina, but this time the South Americans won 2–0. For the bronze medal match, they faced Brazil. Portugal was heavily defeated by 5–0.[citation needed]

Saudi Arabia

In the 1996–97 season, Vingada became the manager of the Saudi Arabia national team, winning the Asian Cup in 1996, and qualifying for the 1998 FIFA World Cup, before being sacked from his position prior to the World Cup.[3] In the 1997–98 and 1998–99 seasons, Vingada worked as an assistant manager for Portuguese club Benfica, along with Graeme Souness as principal manager.[citation needed]

Return to Portugal

Between 1999 and 2003, Vingada was the manager of Marítimo, a Portuguese team from Madeira, and helped the team stay in the Portuguese Liga and qualify once to the Portuguese cup final. In 2003, new Portuguese Real Madrid manager Carlos Queiroz proposed Vingada as assistant manager on 27 June but Carlos Queiroz's proposition was not accepted.[4]

Zamalek

In the 2003–04 season, Vingada became the manager of Egyptian club El Zamalek. He helped the team win the Egyptian premier league, the Saudi-Egyptian Super Cup, and the African Super Cup against Wydad Casablanca, all in one season.[citation needed]

In the 2004–05 season, he became the manager of Académica de Coimbra.[citation needed]

Egypt and Jordan

In 2005, he became the head manager of the Egyptian national U-23 football team. The team failed to reach the Olympic Games which were being held in Beijing in 2008. Although the Egyptian Football Association wanted Vingada to continue managing the team, he resigned.[citation needed]

In summer 2007, Vingada signed for Moroccan club Wydad Casablanca. Only six weeks after he had assumed the new position, he resigned.[citation needed]

Vingada accepted the offer to manage Jordan national football team and signed a 16-month contract with the Jordan Football Association. Vingada later took on the mission to prepare the Jordanian team for the 2010 FIFA World Cup qualification.[5] After failing to pass the first round of the qualifiers, Vingada resigned.[citation needed]

Persepolis

On 9 February 2009, Vingada was officially appointed as head manager of Iranian football side Persepolis.[6] On 17 June 2009, just after five days of signing with Al Ahly he resigned due to family problems.[7]

Vitória S.C.

On 24 June 2009 he was named as head manager Vitoria S.C. in his homeland Portugal and on 7 October 2009 was sacked after four months due to poor results.[8]

FC Seoul

He officially became a manager of FC Seoul of South Korea in January 2010. On 5 December 2010, after winning a game for 2–1, he became the Champion of South Korea, it was the first time in ten years for FC Seoul. Vingada won the K-League Cup, K-League with FC Seoul.[9][10][11] His K-League record was 20 wins, 2 draws, 6 losses in the 2010 season. His winning percentage 71% is a record high in the K-League. On 13 December 2010 FC Seoul offered a one-year contract extension but FC Seoul and Vingada did not agree on the salary conditions. So Vingada went back to Portugal.[12][13]

Vingada became head manager of Chinese Super League side Dalian Shide on 28 August 2011.

Iran U-23

After assisting Carlos Queiroz and the Iran national football team during the qualifiers of the 2014 FIFA World Cup,[14] he became the manager of the Iran Olympic team, signing a two-year contract until the 2016 Summer Olympics.[15] At the 2014 Asian Games held in Incheon, South Korea, Iran was defeated 4–1 by Vietnam in their first match which was Iran's worst defeat in the tournament. They drew 1–1 with Kyrgyzstan in the next match, resulting in an early exit from the competition which was Iran's worst result in the Asian Games since its establishment.[16] As a consequence Vingada was sacked as manager of Iran under-23 team on 9 November 2014.[17]

Marítimo

In January 2016, he signed with Marítimo, this being the second term at the Madeiran club for him as he was their manager from 1999 till 2003. He ended his second tenure with Marítimo on 23 May 2016 to pursue his career elsewhere.[18]

North East United FC

In July 2016, it was announced that he will be the new head coach of the North East United FC, part of the Indian Super League.[19] He was their head coach until 15 May 2017 as he was offered a new job as Malaysia national football team head coach.

Malaysia

On 15 May 2017, Vingada was officially announced as the new head coach of Malaysia national football team with a difficult task to revive Malaysian football.[20] He also took his trusted partner Francisco Jose Bruto da Costa as his deputy.[21] His first match was in the 2019 Asian Cup qualifiers against Lebanon, which ended in a 1–2 defeat. His second match was in the friendly match against Syria national football team, which ended in a 1–2 defeat at Hang Jebat Stadium Melaka.

Vingada stepped down as head coach of Malaysia on 6 December 2017 by mutual consent with Football Association of Malaysia, after not winning any of his seven games in charge, and failure to qualify to the 2019 AFC Asian Cup.[22][23]

Return to Iran

On 11 January 2019, Vingada rejoined the coaching staff of Iran national football team, who are participating in the 2019 AFC Asian Cup, and reunite with Queiroz.[24]

Kerala Blasters FC

On 18 January 2019, it was announced that Vingada would be the new head coach of Kerala Blasters FC in the Indian Super League after the club sacked David James due to poor performances.[25] With a win percent of less than 15, he too was sacked by the club at the end of the 2018–19 Indian Super League season.

Managerial statistics

As of 23 May 2019
Team Nat From To Record
G W D L GF GA +/- Win %
Portugal Portugal December 1993 April 1994 2 0 2 0 2 2 +0 000.00
Portugal U-20 Portugal April 1994 May 1995 6 5 0 1 12 6 +6 083.33
Portugal (Olympic) Portugal May 1995 August 1996 14 8 4 2 20 12 +8 057.14
Saudi Arabia Saudi Arabia October 1996 September 1997 24 17 5 2 55 17 +38 070.83
Marítimo Portugal June 1999 July 2003 136 55 28 53 160 156 +4 040.44
Zamalek Egypt July 2003 July 2004 27 21 6 0 59 16 +43 077.78
Egypt (Olympic) Egypt July 2004 January 2005 2 1 0 1 4 2 +2 050.00
Académica de Coimbra Portugal January 2005 May 2006 34 10 9 15 37 48 −11 029.41
Wydad Casablanca Morocco April 2007 July 2007 8 3 4 1 11 4 +7 037.50
Jordan Jordan May 2007 February 2009 31 11 7 13 39 33 +6 035.48
Persepolis Iran February 2009 June 2009 9 3 3 3 9 9 +0 033.33
Vitória de Guimarães Portugal June 2009 October 2009 7 1 2 4 6 8 −2 014.29
FC Seoul South Korea December 2009 December 2010 37 25 6 6 79 35 +44 067.57
Dalian Shide China July 2011 November 2012 30 8 10 12 39 49 −10 026.67
Iran (Olympic) Iran March 2014 November 2014 6 0 5 1 5 8 −3 000.00
Marítimo Portugal January 2016 June 2016 14 5 3 6 19 20 −1 035.71
NorthEast United India 23 July 2016 15 May 2017 14 5 3 6 14 14 +0 035.71
Malaysia Malaysia 15 May 2017 6 December 2017 7 0 1 6 6 16 −10 000.00
Kerala Blasters India 18 January 2019 17 March 2019 7 1 3 3 6 9 −3 014.29
Total 390 173 94 123 561 425 +136 044.36

Honours

Assistant Manager

Portugal U-20

Manager

Portugal U-20

Saudi Arabia

Zamalek SC

Jordan

FC Seoul

Marítimo

References

  1. ^ a b Nelo Vingada at ForaDeJogo (archived)
  2. ^ a b Nelo Vingada at WorldFootball.net
  3. ^ "Jorge Jesus will do well as Al-Hilal's new coach, says ex-Saudi Arabia boss Nelo Vingada". Arab News. 7 June 2018. Retrieved 13 June 2020.
  4. ^ "Pictured dated 12 February 2002 of Portuguese soccer manager Nelo Vingada". gettyimages.com. 29 June 2003.
  5. ^ "Eduardo Nelo Vingada - Nationnaltrainer von Jordanien - Nationalmanns…". archive.is. 17 July 2012. Archived from the original on 17 July 2012. Retrieved 10 July 2018.
  6. ^ "Iran: Nelo Vingada Resigns As Persepolis Coach | Goal.com". www.goal.com. Retrieved 10 July 2018.
  7. ^ "Vingada U-turn on Ahly job". 18 June 2009. Retrieved 10 July 2018.
  8. ^ Comunicado do prof. Nelo Vingada
  9. ^ "FC Seoul becomes Cup Winners". FC Seoul.com. 26 August 2010.
  10. ^ "Seoul take title". FIFA.com. 5 December 2010. Archived from the original on 13 December 2010.
  11. ^ "FC Seoul lifts the championship trophy". FC Seoul.com. 7 December 2010.
  12. ^ 빙가다 감독 '굿바이 코리아', 14일 한국 떠나 (in Korean). Sportchosun. 14 December 2010.
  13. ^ Egyptian FA chairman Samir Zaher announced on 24 August 2011 that they have reached an agreement with Nelo Vingada, on coaching the Egyptian national team, and that only a few tiny details remain to be sorted out.
  14. ^ "نلو وینگادا دستیار کی‌روش شد :: ورزش سه". www.varzesh3.com. Retrieved 10 July 2018.
  15. ^ "Home - PersianLeague.Com". www.persianleague.com. Retrieved 10 July 2018.
  16. ^ "Team Omid exit Incheon at the group stage". www.persianfootball.com. Retrieved 10 July 2018.
  17. ^ "Nelo Vingada sacked". TeamMelli. 8 November 2014. Retrieved 10 July 2018.
  18. ^ "Oficial: Nelo Vingada abandona comando técnico do Marítimo" (in Portuguese). Mais Futebol. 23 May 2016. Retrieved 21 October 2017.
  19. ^ "ISL 2016: 'Professor' Nelo Vingada joins NorthEast United FC as head coach".
  20. ^ "Vingada Appointed National Team Head Coach". Football Association of Malaysia (FAM). 15 May 2017. Archived from the original on 19 May 2017. Retrieved 15 May 2017.
  21. ^ "Indian Football BREAKING - Francisco Bruto Da Costa gets Malaysian National team's assistant coach job | Goal.com". www.goal.com. Retrieved 10 September 2020.
  22. ^ "Nelo Vingada steps down as Malaysia FA head coach". Goal.com. Retrieved 10 July 2018.
  23. ^ "Nelo Vingada, One-on-One: I have no regrets – and Malaysian players are better than they think". FouFourTwo.com. 8 February 2018. Retrieved 13 January 2019.
  24. ^ "Asian Cup: Nelo Vingada joins Iran's coaching staff". TehranTimes.com. 11 January 2019. Retrieved 13 January 2019.
  25. ^ "Kerala Blasters appoint Portuguese Nelo Vingada as head coach". OnManorama. Retrieved 13 June 2020.
  26. ^ "Portugal Team Squad". FIFA.com. Archived from the original on 4 July 2007.

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