António José Conceição Oliveira

Toni
Personnel
Surname	António José Conceição Oliveira
birthday	October 14, 1946
place of birth	Mogofores ,  Portugal
position	midfield player
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
1964-1968	Académica de Coimbra	19 0(0)
1968-1981	Benfica Lisbon	391 (23)
1977	→  Las Vegas Quicksilvers  (loan)	16 0(0)
National team
Years	selection	Games (goals)
1969-1988	Portugal	33 0(0)
Stations as a trainer
Years	station
1983	Benfica Lisbon (assistant coach)
1983-1984	Portugal (assistant coach)
1987-1989	Benfica Lisbon
1992-1994	Benfica Lisbon
1994-1995	Girondins de Bordeaux
1995	Sevilla FC
2000-2001	Benfica Lisbon
2002	Changsha Ginde
2002-2003	al Ahly Cairo
2007-2008	Al-Ittifaq
2010-2011	Al Ittihad
2012-2013	Tractor Sazi Tabriz
2014	Tractor Sazi Tabriz
2015	Tractor Sazi Tabriz
2017-2018	Kazma SC
1 Only league games are given.

António José Conceição Oliveira (born October 14, 1946 in Mogofores , Portugal ), also called Toni , was a Portuguese football player and coach who was best known for his work at Benfica Lisbon .

Player career

society

Toni began in his childhood in Salesianos de Mogofore with the football game . Soon after, he switched to Anadia , where his talent showed. In 1964, the midfielder came to the professional squad of Académica de Coimbra , which were then trained in the top Portuguese division by Mário Wilson . With Coimbra, his greatest success was reaching the final of the Portuguese Cup , where they lost to Vitória Setúbal . On June 9, 1969 Toni moved to Benfica Lisbon for a transfer fee of 1,305,000 Escudos . There the midfielder developed into one of the best players in the history of Benficas. His good performances earned him the Portuguese Footballer of the Year title in 1972 .

In his 13 years at Benfica, he was featured in 395 games and scored 24 goals. In the Portuguese national team , Oliveira completed a total of 33 games (1 goal) between 1969 and 1978, but the team could not qualify for finals at World or European Championships during this time. In 1980/81 he ended his career at Benfica.

National team

Toni made his debut for the Portuguese national team in the World Cup qualifying match against Romania on October 12, 1969 . During his time as a national player Toni played with players like Eusébio , Humberto Coelho and Rui Jordão . Nevertheless, they did not manage to qualify for a major tournament such as the World and European Championships. The only notable competition was the 1972 Brazilian Independence Competition , which was held from June 11th to July 9th for the 150th anniversary of Brazil's independence. Toni reached the final with Portugal against hosts Brazil , but lost it 1-0 with a goal in the 89th minute by Jairzinho . Toni was used in all four possible games of the tournament. On March 8, 1979, the midfielder wore the jersey of the national team for the last time in the friendly against France .

Coaching career

Toni began his coaching career as an assistant coach at Benfica Lisbon . In September 1983 national coach Fernando Cabrita brought him along with António Morais and José Augusto to the coaching staff of the Portuguese who qualified for the 1984 European Football Championship . Toni was employed three times as a trainer at Benfica (1987/89, 1992/1994 and 2000/2002). At the beginning of his career in this post he inherited the Danish coach Ebbe Skovdahl in 1987 . During 1989 Toni was replaced by the Swede Sven-Göran Eriksson , under whom he worked as an assistant in the Benfica coaching staff as early as 1983. In 1992, the former midfielder was again coach of Benfica, displacing Tomislav Ivić . During this time he was able to win the Portuguese Cup in 1993 . In the game for the Super Cup , in the run-up to the 1993/94 season, Toni's team then lost to FC Porto . After the Benfica board of directors parted ways with their former players in 1994, Toni signed with French club Girondins Bordeaux . The team was only seventh in the league, which does not meet the requirements, so that Toni had to clear the place for Eric Guérit . In the same year he was head coach of Sevilla FC on the sidelines of the Spanish club for a short time . Ultimately, Toni did not look after a new team for five years until 2000, when he was supposed to look after the Benfica team for the third time to replace José Mourinho . However, the Portuguese capital club remained untitled for the next two years and the coach voluntarily resigned from his position at the end of December 2001 after there were problems between him and new president Manuel Vilarinho . Toni coached a total of 217 Benfica games; including 128 wins, 57 draws and 32 defeats. After a short interlude at the Chinese club Changsha Ginde , he signed with al Ahly Cairo in 2002 . After another longer break, Toni moved to the Saudi Arabian club Al-Ittifaq in 2007/08 , which he leads into the final of the GCC Clubs Championship . He has been the trainer of Al Ittihad since 2010 . In 2012 he moved to the Iranian League for Tractor Sazi Tabriz .

Web links

• Toni in the database of weltfussball.de
• Toni in the database of National-Football-Teams.com (English)
• Toni in the zerozerofootball.com database
• Toni biography (port.)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Brazil Independence Cup 1972 - Additional details on rsssf.com
2. ↑ ^{a b c} Al Ahly name new boss on bbc.co.uk (English)
3. ↑ December 28, 2001 (Fr) on marco-schueler.de
4. ↑ Official SAFF website launched ( Memento from January 1, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) on saudigazette.com.sa (English)
5. ↑ Saudi club Al Ittihad hires Tony Oliveira as coach  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. from December 29, 2010 on mysanantonio.com (English)  

predecessor	Office	successor
Tamagnini Nené	Portugal's Footballer of the Year 1972	Eusebio