Nuno Santos
Personal information
Full name Nuno Luís Costa Santos[1]
Date of birth (1973-04-20) 20 April 1973 (age 50)[1]
Place of birth Setúbal, Portugal[1]
Height 1.85 m (6 ft 1 in)[1]
Position(s) Goalkeeper
Youth career
1984–1985 OVNI 2001
1985–1991 Vitória Setúbal
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1991–1998 Vitória Setúbal 42 (0)
1991–1992 → Caldas (loan) 13 (0)
1993–1994 → Operário (loan)
1998–1999 Leeds United 0 (0)
1999–2004 Benfica 0 (0)
2000 → Badajoz (loan) 0 (0)
2001 → Santa Clara (loan) 7 (0)
2001–2002 → Beira-Mar (loan) 24 (0)
2003–2004 → Vitória Setúbal (loan) 13 (0)
2004–2007 Santa Clara 69 (0)
2007 Raging Rhinos 2 (0)
2008 Toronto FC 0 (0)
2008–2009 Gondomar 19 (0)
2009–2010 Arouca 9 (0)
2010–2012 Ethnikos Assia 10 (0)
Total 208 (0)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Nuno Luís Costa Santos (born 20 April 1973) is a Portuguese retired professional footballer who played as a goalkeeper, currently a goalkeeping coach.

Playing career

Born in Setúbal, Santos made his professional debut with his hometown club Vitória FC,[2] also serving two loans with lowly teams (Caldas and Operário). His performances in the 1997–98 campaign attracted the attention of Leeds United,[3][4] but he made no official appearances whatsoever for the Premier League side, returning to his country with Benfica.[2]

During his stint in Lisbon, Santos was almost always only third choice, and went on to also serve several loans, including in Spain's Badajoz, playing no games in the Segunda División during his four-month spell.[2] Released by Benfica in June 2004 after a season-long loan spell at Vitória,[5] he stabilised at Santa Clara – which he had already represented on loan from Benfica – starting in two of his three campaigns in the Azores.[6][2]

After one year in North America, appearing for both the Rochester Raging Rhinos and Toronto FC, Santos returned to Portugal and played in slightly more than half of the league's matches for Gondomar, with the club, also in the Segunda Liga, being relegated. In the summer, he dropped down to the third tier and joined Arouca.[2]

Coaching career

Upon retiring at the age of 39, Santos worked as goalkeeper coach of the Canada national team.[7] In 2018, in the same capacity, he signed with Lille of the French Ligue 1.[8][9]

Santos moved to English club Tottenham Hotspur in November 2019, still in that role.[10] After the dismissal of manager José Mourinho on 19 April 2021, the entire coaching staff was relieved of their duties.[11] On 7 April 2022, while working as goalkeeping coach of Roma, he was involved in an altercation with the head coach of Bodø/Glimt, following a UEFA Europa Conference League quarter-final match.[12]

References

  1. ^ a b c d "Nuno Santos". Footballdatabase. Retrieved 17 December 2009.
  2. ^ a b c d e "Entrevista com… Nuno Santos" [Interview with… Nuno Santos] (in Portuguese). Ricardo Nuno Almeida. 14 December 2010. Retrieved 3 September 2017.
  3. ^ "Football: On the move". The Independent. 24 October 1998. Retrieved 3 September 2017.
  4. ^ Andrews, Phil (7 December 1998). "Football: O'Leary manages to release the brake". The Independent. Retrieved 3 September 2017.
  5. ^ "Bossio e Nuno Santos rescindiram" [Bossio and Nuno Santos have cut ties]. Record (in Portuguese). 4 June 2004. Retrieved 28 September 2004.
  6. ^ "Botelho ou Nuno Santos na baliza" [Botelho or Nuno Santos in goal]. Record (in Portuguese). 7 January 2007. Retrieved 12 December 2021.
  7. ^ "Canada Soccer presents goalkeeper clinic for League1 and OPDL coaches". Ontario Soccer. 10 June 2016. Retrieved 14 November 2019.
  8. ^ "LOSC: l'effectif de la saison 2019–2020" [LOSC: the 2019–2020 season squad]. La Voix du Nord (in French). 5 August 2019. Retrieved 14 November 2019.
  9. ^ Bja, Rayan (25 October 2019). "Maignan évoque sa relation avec Nuno Santos" [Maignan recalls relation with Nuno Santos] (in French). Le Petit Lillois. Retrieved 14 November 2019.
  10. ^ "Jose Mourinho names all new backroom team after taking over at Tottenham". Metro. 20 November 2019. Retrieved 20 November 2019.
  11. ^ "Club statement". Tottenham Hotspur F.C. 19 April 2021. Retrieved 19 April 2021.
  12. ^ Arntzen, Mats; Magnus, Old; Friberg, Jens; Boge-Fredriksen, Hans Christian (8 April 2022). "Glimt Politianmelder Romas Keepertrener – UEFA Åpner Disiplinærsak" [Glimt report Roma goalkeeper coach to the police – UEFA opens disciplinary proceedings]. Verdens Gang (in Norwegian). Retrieved 8 April 2022.

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