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| Full name | Eduardo Manuel Martinho Bragança de Vingada | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Date of birth | (1953-03-30)30 March 1953 (age 71) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 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 manager) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1993–1994 | Portugal | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1994–1995 | Portugal U-20 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1995–1996 | Portugal Olympic | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1996–1997 | Saudi Arabia | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1997–1998 | Benfica (assistant manager) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 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 (interim manager) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2020–2022 | Egypt (football director) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Eduardo Manuel "Nelo" Martinho Bragança de Vingada (born 30 March 1953) is a Portuguesefootball manager and formerfootballer.
Vingada was born inSerpa. His first steps as a professional football manager were in Belenenses, and then inAcadémica de Coimbra in the 1982–83 season, when he was assistant manager forMário Wilson at Académica.Sintrense andVilafranquense were his following teams as a manager.[citation needed]
In the 1986–87 season, Vingada was appointed as an assistant manager forPortugal U-20 along withCarlos Queiroz. He was the assistant manager for the Portugal national squad in theWorld Youth Championships of1989 inRiyadh and1991 inLisbon withCarlos Queiroz as head manager, both won by Portugal.[citation needed]
Vingada was appointed as a head manager forPortugal U-20 and his team participated in1995 World Youth Championship. In this tournament,Portugal U-20 ended in the third place.[citation needed]
ThePortugal Olympic football team under his management participated in the1996 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]
In the 1996–97 season, Vingada became the manager of theSaudi Arabia national team, winning theAsian Cup in 1996, and qualifying for the1998 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 clubBenfica, along withGraeme Souness as principal manager.[citation needed] Between 1999 and 2003, Vingada was the manager ofMarítimo, a Portuguese team fromMadeira, and helped the team stay in thePortuguese Liga and qualify once to thePortuguese cup final. In 2003, new PortugueseReal Madrid managerCarlos Queiroz proposed Vingada as assistant manager on 27 June butCarlos Queiroz's proposition was not accepted.[4]
In the 2003–04 season, Vingada became the manager of Egyptian clubEl Zamalek. He helped the team win theEgyptian premier league, theSaudi-Egyptian Super Cup, and theAfrican Super Cup againstWydad Casablanca, all in one season.[citation needed]
In the 2004–05 season, he became the manager ofAcadémica de Coimbra.[citation needed]
In 2005, he became the head manager of the Egyptian national U-23 football team. The team failed to reach theOlympic Games which were being held in Beijing in 2008. Although theEgyptian Football Association wanted Vingada to continue managing the team, he resigned.[citation needed]
In summer 2007, Vingada signed for Moroccan clubWydad Casablanca. Only six weeks after he had assumed the new position, he resigned.[citation needed]
Vingada accepted the offer to manageJordan national football team and signed a 16-month contract with theJordan Football Association. Vingada later took on the mission to prepare the Jordanian team for the2010 FIFA World Cup qualification.[5] After failing to pass the first round of the qualifiers, Vingada resigned.[citation needed]
On 9 February 2009, Vingada was officially appointed as head manager of Iranian football sidePersepolis.[6] On 17 June 2009, just after five days of signing withAl Ahly he resigned due to family problems.[7]
On 24 June 2009 he was named as head managerVitória S.C. in his homeland Portugal and on 7 October 2009 was sacked after four months due to poor results.[8]
He officially became a manager ofFC 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 forFC Seoul. Vingada won theK-League Cup,K-League with FC Seoul.[9][10][11] HisK-League record was 20 wins, 2 draws, 6 losses in the 2010 season. His winning percentage 71% is a record high in theK-League. On 13 December 2010FC Seoul offered a one-year contract extension butFC Seoul and Vingada did not agree on the salary conditions. So Vingada went back to Portugal.[12][13]
Vingada became head manager ofChinese Super League sideDalian Shide on 28 August 2011.
After assistingCarlos Queiroz and theIran national football team during thequalifiers of the2014 FIFA World Cup,[14] he became the manager of theIran Olympic team, signing a two-year contract until the2016 Summer Olympics.[15]At the2014 Asian Games held inIncheon,South Korea, Iran was defeated 4–1 byVietnam in their first match which was Iran's worst defeat in the tournament. They drew 1–1 withKyrgyzstan in the next match, resulting in an early exit from the competition which was Iran's worst result in theAsian Games since its establishment.[16] As a consequence Vingada was sacked as manager of Iran under-23 team on 9 November 2014.[17]
In January 2016, he signed withMarítimo, 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]
In July 2016, it was announced that he will be the new head coach of theNorth East United FC, part of theIndian 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.
On 15 May 2017, Vingada was officially announced as the new head coach ofMalaysia national football team with a difficult task to revive Malaysian football.[20] He also took his trusted partnerFrancisco Jose Bruto da Costa as his deputy.[21] His first match was in the2019 Asian Cup qualifiers againstLebanon, 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 withFootball Association of Malaysia, after not winning any of his seven games in charge, and failure to qualify to the2019 AFC Asian Cup.[22][23]
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]
On 18 January 2019, it was announced that Vingada would be the new head coach ofKerala Blasters FC in theIndian Super League after the club sackedDavid 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 the2018–19 Indian Super League season.
In 2020, Vingada became the technical director of the Egyptian national team, a position he held until April 2022, following the dismissal of head coachCarlos Queiroz.[26]
| Team | Nat | From | To | Record | |||||||
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| G | W | D | L | Win % | |||||||
| Portugal U-21 |  | 1 July 1989 | 30 June 1996 | 18 | 9 | 4 | 5 | 050.00 | |||
| Portugal | | 14 December 1993 | 30 June 1994 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 000.00 | |||
| Portugal U-20 | | 1 January 1994 | 30 June 1995 | 6 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 083.33 | |||
| Saudi Arabia |  | 1 November 1996 | 12 October 1997 | 24 | 17 | 5 | 2 | 070.83 | |||
| Marítimo | | 1 January 1999 | 16 March 2003 | 136 | 55 | 28 | 53 | 040.44 | |||
| Zamalek |  | 9 July 2003 | 17 July 2004 | 31 | 23 | 5 | 3 | 074.19 | |||
| Académica de Coimbra | | 23 December 2004 | 6 May 2006 | 52 | 16 | 16 | 20 | 030.77 | |||
| Egypt U-20 | | 30 May 2006 | 30 April 2007 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 050.00 | |||
| Wydad Casablanca |  | 1 May 2007 | 30 June 2007 | 8 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 037.50 | |||
| Jordan |  | 18 August 2007 | 31 December 2008 | 31 | 11 | 7 | 13 | 035.48 | |||
| Persepolis |  | 9 February 2009 | 28 May 2009 | 18 | 8 | 4 | 6 | 044.44 | |||
| Vitória de Guimarães | | 26 June 2009 | 7 October 2009 | 8 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 025.00 | |||
| FC Seoul |  | 3 January 2010 | 31 December 2010 | 39 | 27 | 5 | 7 | 069.23 | |||
| Dalian Shide |  | 20 July 2011 | 31 December 2012 | 46 | 13 | 16 | 17 | 028.26 | |||
| Iran (Olympic) | | 1 September 2014 | 30 September 2014 | 6 | 0 | 5 | 1 | 000.00 | |||
| Marítimo | | 19 January 2016 | 23 May 2016 | 19 | 5 | 3 | 11 | 026.32 | |||
| NorthEast United |  | 16 July 2016 | 14 May 2017 | 14 | 5 | 3 | 6 | 035.71 | |||
| Malaysia |  | 15 May 2017 | 6 December 2017 | 7 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 000.00 | |||
| Kerala Blasters | | 18 January 2019 | 17 March 2019 | 7 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 014.29 | |||
| Career Total | 474 | 201 | 114 | 159 | 042.41 | ||||||
Portugal U-20
Portugal U-20
Saudi Arabia
Zamalek SC
Jordan
FC Seoul
Marítimo
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