 Inácio in 2020 | |||
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Augusto Soares Inácio | ||
| Date of birth | (1955-01-30)30 January 1955 (age 70) | ||
| Place of birth | Lisbon, Portugal | ||
| Height | 1.79 m (5 ft10+1⁄2 in) | ||
| Position | Left back | ||
| Youth career | |||
| Sporting CP | |||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1974–1982 | Sporting CP | 157 | (5) |
| 1982–1989 | Porto | 142 | (4) |
| Total | 299 | (9) | |
| International career | |||
| 1976–1986 | Portugal | 25 | (0) |
| Managerial career | |||
| 1990–1991 | Rio Ave | ||
| 1994–1996 | Porto (assistant) | ||
| 1995 | Porto (interim) | ||
| 1996 | Marítimo | ||
| 1996–1997 | Felgueiras | ||
| 1997–1999 | Marítimo | ||
| 1999 | Chaves | ||
| 1999–2001 | Sporting CP | ||
| 2001–2003 | Vitória Guimarães | ||
| 2004 | Belenenses | ||
| 2004 | Al-Ahli | ||
| 2005–2006 | Beira-Mar | ||
| 2006–2007 | Ionikos | ||
| 2007–2008 | Foolad | ||
| 2008–2009 | Interclube | ||
| 2009–2010 | Naval | ||
| 2010–2011 | Leixões | ||
| 2012 | Vaslui | ||
| 2013 | Moreirense | ||
| 2016–2017 | Moreirense | ||
| 2017 | Zamalek | ||
| 2019 | Aves | ||
| 2020 | Avaí | ||
| * Club domestic league appearances and goals | |||
Augusto Soares Inácio (born 30 January 1955) is a Portuguese retiredfootballer who played as aleft back, and amanager.
Having represented bothSporting andPorto as a professional player, he went on to have a lengthy managerial career that would last more than 30 years in eight countries including his own (in this capacity, he also worked with both clubs).
APortugal international for one full decade, Inácio represented the country at the1986 World Cup.
Born inLisbon, Inácio started playing forSporting CP, signing at the age of 27 forPorto and winning severalPrimeira Liga championships anddomestic cups with both clubs. With the latter, he started in bothEuropean competition finals played in the 80s, the 1–2 againstJuventus in the1983–84 European Cup Winners' Cup and the1986–87 European Cup, won at the expense ofBayern Munich.[1]
Inácio earned 25caps forPortugal, mainly for Porto. His debut came on 5 December 1976 in a 2–1 win overCyprus in the1978 FIFA World Cupqualifiers, and he represented the nation atUEFA Euro 1984 and the1986 World Cup, playing his last international in the latter, a 1–3 group stage loss toMorocco on 11 July.
After ending his career, Inácio became a manager. One of his first stops was at former side Porto as part of theBobby Robson-led coaching staff, helping thenortherners to back-to-back league conquests; his first head coach assignment arrived with another former club, as he led Sporting to its first title in 18 years, in1999–2000;[2][3] subsequently, he managedChaves,Marítimo,Vitória Guimarães andBeira-Mar.
In the2005–06 season, theAveiro team won thesecond level, thus achieving promotion. However, Inácio would be sacked just nine matches intothe following campaign, leaving them with only six points; he then went on to manageIonikos in theSuper League Greece,[4] but resigned on 15 January 2007 after a heavy defeat againstPanathinaikos.
Inácio moved toIran just ten days later withFoolad, signing until June. Despite suffering relegation to thesecond division he signed a contract extension for the next season; in May 2008, he took the reins ofInterclube inLuanda, Angola.
Inácio was sacked in the summer of 2009 and, on 13 September, he reached an agreement withAssociação Naval for a return to Portugal, in a one-year deal. At this time inthe season, Naval had just one point from four games and dismissedUlisses Morais, but ultimately easily retained their top division status, finishing in eighth position.
In late January 2012, Inácio signed a contract withRomanianLiga I teamVaslui.[5] After three months at the helm ofMoreirense late into the2012–13 campaign (four wins in 14 matches, team relegation), he returned to Sporting asdirector of football;[6] in June 2015, still with the latter club, he was appointed director of international relations.[7]
Inácio returned to head coaching duties in late November 2016, when he replaced firedPepa at the helm of former side Moreirense.[8] The following month heled the team to their first ever major trophy, conquering theTaça da Liga after the1–0 win overBraga at theEstádio Algarve;[9] previously, they disposed of Porto in the group stage of the competition andBenfica in the semi-finals.[10]
Inácio was however fired on 20 March 2017, due to a poor string of league results.[11] On 7 April, he succeededMohamed Helmy at the helm ofEgyptian Premier League sideZamalek;[12] he terminated his one-and-a-half-year contract in late July,[13] being subsequently held in the club's facilities and requesting help from the Portuguese embassy in the African country until the situation was eventually solved.[14]
On 16 January 2019, Inácio was appointed atAves.[15] He was relieved of his duties seven months later, after only collecting one league win in eight matches and beingousted from theTaça de Portugal byFarense (5–2 loss).[16]
Inácio became manager ofAvaí at theCampeonato Brasileiro Série B on 18 December 2019.[17] The following February, after four losses in seven games, he was dismissed.[18]
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