Abel Braga

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Abel Braga
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Abel Braga (left) with Brazil's President Lula
Personnel
Surname Abel Carlos da Silva Braga
birthday September 1, 1952
place of birth Rio de Janeiro ,  Brazil
size 187 cm
position Defender
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1968-1976 Fluminense Rio de Janeiro 42 (1)
1976-1979 CR Vasco da Gama 37 (0)
1977 →  Las Vegas Quicksilvers  (loan) 11 (2)
1979-1981 Paris Saint-Germain 45 (9)
1981-1982 Cruzeiro Belo Horizonte
1982-1984 Botafogo FR 21 (4)
1984-1985 Goytacaz FC
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
1978 Brazil 1 (0)
Stations as a trainer
Years station
1985 Goytacaz FC
1986 Rio Ave FC
1987 Santa Cruz FC
1987-1988 Internacional Porto Alegre
1988-1989 FC Famalicão
1989-1991 Belenenses Lisbon
1991-1994 Vitória Setúbal
1994 CR Vasco da Gama
1995 Athletico Paranaense
1997-1998 Coritiba FC
1999 Paraná Clube
1999-2000 CR Vasco da Gama
2000-2001 Olympique Marseille
2001 Atlético Mineiro
2001-2002 Botafogo FR
2002 Athletico Paranaense
2003 AA Ponte Preta
2004 Flamengo Rio de Janeiro
2005 Fluminense Rio de Janeiro
2006-2007 Internacional Porto Alegre
2007-2008 Internacional Porto Alegre
2008-2011 al-Jazira Club
2011-2013 Fluminense Rio de Janeiro
2014 Internacional Porto Alegre
2015 al-Jazira Club
2016 Sao Paulo FC
2017-2018 Fluminense Rio de Janeiro
2019 Flamengo Rio de Janeiro
2019 Cruzeiro Belo Horizonte
1 Only league games are given.

Abel Carlos da Silva Braga , shortly Abel Braga , (* 1. September 1952 in Rio de Janeiro ) is a former Brazilian footballer and active coach.

Career

Player career

The 1.87 meter tall defender began his career in 1968 with Fluminense Rio de Janeiro , where he was under contract for eight years. During the eight years completed 42 league games before moving to the club Vasco da Gama in 1976 . From 1976 to 1979 he was under contract for the club, in 1977 he was loaned to Las Vegas Quicksilvers for eleven league games . In 1978 he took part in a game with the Brazilian national soccer team. His last station as a football player was the Goytacaz Futebol Clube club in 1985 , he was under contract from 1984 to 1985.

Coaching career

After his active career, he got a contract as a coach for the club immediately after the end of his career. In 1988 the club Internacional Porto Alegre was runner-up at the Campeonato Brasileiro de Futebol , which he coached. In the 1990/91 season the club did not achieve such good results, but was able to hold out in the first division. In the second half of 1990/91 he moved to the club Belenenses Lisbon . Like the club Internacional, the club Belenenses was also in the second division and was able to return to the first division through his coaching. He was promised an extension of the contract for 1992/93, but turned his back on the club shortly before the end. His next stop was the EC Vitória association .

After five years in Portugal, he went back to Brazil. In 1995 he signed a contract with the CR Vasco da Gama club , but was terminated after a short time. From 1997 to 2000 he was with the three big clubs from Paraná ( Athletico Paranaense , Coritiba FC and Paraná Clube ) under contract. After four years he returned to the CR Vasco da Gama association. After the FIFA Club World Cup , the CR Vasco da Gama club got into a difficult time and asked Abel to return. After a few months, he received an offer from the French club Olympique Marseille in 2000 , but returned to Brazil in 2001. In 2001 he coached the Botafogo FR club and the Atlético Mineiro club for the second time . In 2003 he took over the club AA Ponte Preta in order to keep it in the first division until the Campeonato Brasileiro de Futebol .

The next year he signed a contract with Flamengo Rio de Janeiro , his assistant coach was Andrade . Abel brought the club to the final at the Copa Libertadores . There stood the club's opponent EC Santo André . At half time, Fluminense was 2-0. The Santo André club caught up with the deficit and it ended 2-2. Abel described the draw as the biggest defeat of his career. For this reason, he ended his career prematurely. After a six-month hiatus, he returned and signed a contract with Fluminense. At the state championship in Rio de Janeiro , he got the opportunity again to have brought a club to the final. The club lost the game and the club held him responsible for the defeat. After a year he moved to the Arab association al-Jazira Club . After three years he returned to Brazil to the club Fluminense FC. There was his assistant coach Leomir de Souza . In 2013 he won all championships with the club in which he participated. The football player's worth in 2013 was $ 700,000. In 2014 he returned to the Internacional Porto Alegre association . He stayed here for only one season and came back to the Fluminense after another stopover in the 2017 season. At the club he was honored on May 25, 2017 for supporting 250 games. On June 16, 2018, Braga terminated his contract with FLU.

In December 2018, Braga's renewed appointment at CR Flamengo was announced. After completing the national championship, which the club won, Braga left Flamengo at the end of May 2019.

On September 28, 2019, Cruzeiro Belo Horizonte announced that Braga would be the club's third coach in the 2019 championship .

Titles and honors

As a soccer player

As a soccer coach

Santa Cruz FC

Vasco da Gama

Internacional Porto Alegre

Fluminense Rio de Janeiro

Flamengo

Other clubs

Web links

  • Abel Braga in the database of National-Football-Teams.com (English)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Abel Braga pede demissão no Botafogo written in Portuguese on July 8, 2002, accessed on May 7, 2015
  2. ↑ Report on Abel's move to the Ponte Preta association ( memento of July 5, 2015 in the Internet Archive ), written in Portuguese on December 17, 2003, accessed on May 7, 2015
  3. ↑ Abel Braga é o novo treinador do Flamengo (Abel Braga is the new Flamengo trainer). From: globoesporte.globo.com , December 17, 2003, accessed May 21, 2015 (updated April 15, 2004).
  4. ↑ Abel diz que foi a maior derrota da sua carreira (Abel says it was the worst defeat of his career). From: globoesporte.globo.com , July 1, 2004, accessed May 21, 2015 .
  5. ↑ Honor for 250 trainer assignments, report on oglobo.globo.com from May 25, 2017, accessed on May 26, 2017
  6. ↑ Cancellation at Fluminse 2018 , report on terra.com.br from June 16, 2018, page in portug., Accessed on June 20, 2018
  7. ↑ Trainer at FLA 2019 , report on uol.com.br from December 11, 2018, page in portugal, accessed on January 14, 2019
  8. ↑ Trainer at Cruzeiro , report on globo.com from September 28, 2019, page on portu., Accessed on September 29, 2019
personal data
SURNAME Braga, Abel
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Braga, Abel Carlos da Silva (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Brazilian soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH September 1, 1952
PLACE OF BIRTH Rio de Janeiro , Brazil