Fernando Santos (soccer coach)

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Fernando Santos
Fernando Santos 2018.jpg
Fernando Santos (2018)
Personnel
Surname Fernando Manuel Costa Santos
birthday October 10, 1954
place of birth Lisbon ,  Portugal
position Defense
Juniors
Years station
1971-1973 Benfica Lisbon
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1973-1979 DG Estoril Praia
1979-1980 Marítimo Funchal
1980-1987 DG Estoril Praia
Stations as a trainer
Years station
1987-1994 DG Estoril Praia
1994-1998 CF Estrela Amadora
1998-2001 FC Porto
2001-2002 AEK Athens
2002-2003 Panathinaikos Athens
2003-2004 Sporting Lisbon
2004-2006 AEK Athens
2006-2007 Benfica Lisbon
2007-2010 PAOK Thessaloniki
2010-2014 Greece
2014– Portugal
1 Only league games are given.

Fernando Manuel Costa Santos (born October 10, 1954 in Lisbon ) is a Portuguese football coach and former player.

Player career

Santos was active in the youth department of Benfica Lisbon , but without making the leap into the professional team of the Portuguese top club. In 1973 he moved to GD Estoril Praia . In the 1979/80 season he played for Marítimo Funchal . He then played another seven years for GD Estoril Praia, including five years in the Segunda Liga. In 1987 he ended his active career at the age of 32.

Coaching career

After his active career, Santos decided to become a coach. In 1987 he took over GD Estoril Praia as the first head coach position. There he was able to celebrate his first successes. With second place in the Segunda League in 1990/91, the team was promoted to the first division . He then positioned his team in the safe midfield of the league and managed to stay up. Also in the following year he secured with his team the remaining in the highest Portuguese league. For the 1993/94 season it was difficult and slumped into the relegation zone. At the end of the season, Estoril was relegated. Santos left the club and joined CF Estrela Amadora for the following season . Under the new coach, Amadora developed from year to year from a relegation team to a club that can assert itself in the middle of the table. With seventh place in 1997/98, Santos also achieved Amadora's best placement in the club's history. His achievements aroused desires, so that the top club FC Porto signed him in 1998, where he replaced António Oliveira .

They won the national championship straight away. In the cup, however, the team was eliminated early on and the 1998/99 UEFA Champions League was over after the preliminary round. In the next two years Santos missed the league title twice with Porto as runner-up, but was able to celebrate winning the Taça de Portugal . In 2001, Octávio Machado took over from him. Santos then moved abroad and signed a contract with the Greek club AEK Athens . He led the team into the final of the national cup , which his team won 2-1 against Olympiacos Piraeus . In the league it was enough for the vice-championship title. The Greeks honored his performance with the Super League coach of the year award. Nevertheless, the two parties separated again and Santos signed with league rival Panathinaikos Athens . The team was heading for the league win, but gambled it away in the last two games.

In international competition, the UEFA Cup quarter -finals ended against Porto. In the summer of 2003, the football teacher moved to Sporting Lisbon . Without a title, he left the club the following year and went back to Greece to be head coach of AEK Athens again. With a younger team, Santos made it to the semi-finals of the Cup and led the club to third, three points behind champions Olympiacos. Again he was voted coach of the year in the highest Greek league. In the 2005/06 season it was the runner-up championship. As early as May 2006 it was announced that Santos would take over Benfica Lisbon for the new season . They just failed in the championship. Shortly after the start of 2007/08, Santos was fired from the club's board of directors.

PAOK Saloniki

From September 2007 to mid-2010 he coached the Greek club PAOK Thessaloniki . At the financially and athletically troubled club, he should start a rebuilding together with the new club president Theodoros Zagorakis . In order to put together a competitive team, transfers were made in the summer of 2007. Santos then lured his compatriot and former international Sérgio Conceição to PAOK during the winter break . With the end of the season, the club finished ninth in the league. In order to inflate the squad and make it better, the coach and club board agreed in summer 2008 to sign players like Pablo Contreras , Zlatan Muslimović and Pablo García . At the end of 2008/09, PAOK was still eight points behind the champions Olympiacos Piraeus, which was enough for second place. This was the best placement since 1985. In the relegation games for the fight for international competitions, Santos then gambled away with his team the Champions League participation and only made it into the qualifying round for the 2009/10 UEFA Europa League .

In order to have more quality in the squad, Santos and the club management struck again on the transfer market in summer 2009 and secured the services of Bruno Cirillo , Vitolo and Vasilios Koutsianikoulis . In the play-offs for the Europa League, the club failed at the Dutch club SC Heerenveen . Things went well again in the league. Third place at the end of the season benefited. In the qualifying games for the Champions League, Santos Team then sat down against AEK Athens, Aris Saloniki and Olympiacos Piraeus and made it into the qualifying round for the most important European competition. After Greece's disappointing performance at the 2010 World Cup , long-time German coach Otto Rehhagel left his place as national coach. Santos, who had only recently resigned from his position as PAOK coach, was named as his successor. In 2009 the soccer coach was voted Super League coach of the year for the third time.

Greek national coach

Soon after, he signed a contract with the Greek Federation until 2012 and became the national coach of Greece . As has been the case many times before, Santos should herald a change and lead the team back on the road to success. For the first international match under his leadership on August 11, 2010 against Serbia , Santos presented eight debutants (including: Giorgos Tzavelas ). The Portuguese eliminated other long-time national players such as Angelos Charisteas . The premiere game was won 1-0. Although there was no debutant in the starting line-up, with Giannis Papadopoulos , Stergos Marinos and Ioannis Maniatis three “ newcomers ” were substituted on during the game. For the first time in a competitive game, he looked after the team on September 3rd in the European Championship qualifying match against Georgia , which ended 1-1. In December 2010, the Greeks honored him for the fourth time as Super League coach of the year. The further course of the European Championship qualification was extremely positive. The Hellenes remained undefeated in Group F and qualified as group winners for the 2012 European Championship . There Fernando Santos' team survived the preliminary round and only failed in the quarter-finals to Germany.

The following qualification for the 2014 World Cup was also successfully contested. The Greeks made it to the World Cup finals via the relegation games against Romania . In February 2014, Fernando Santos announced that he would resign as national coach for Greece after the World Cup in Brazil. At the World Cup he was able to lead the Greek team into the knockout round for the first time. There Greece scored a 1-1 draw against Costa Rica, but then retired on penalties. Before the penalty shootout, he was sent to the stands by the referee. As a result, he received a fine from FIFA and was suspended for eight games to be served in the next official matches of the team he will play for in the future. After the World Cup, he resigned as announced.

Portuguese national coach

On September 23, 2014 Santos became the new national coach of his home country after Portugal, under his predecessor Paulo Bento, had lost the first qualifying game for the 2016 European Championship against Albania . With seven wins in the remaining seven games, Portugal then easily qualified for the finals. However, the tournament started disappointingly: after three draws against Iceland , Austria and Hungary , the qualification for the knockout round was only possible thanks to the new mode as third in the group. Santos' unspectacular defensive tactics were also criticized afterwards: Portugal failed to win after 90 minutes either in the round of 16 against Croatia or in the quarter-finals against Poland . Instead, they only moved into the next round after extra time or penalty shoot-out. With a 2-0 semi-final against Wales , Portugal reached the final for the second time since 2004 . This won Portugal 1-0 after extra time against the favored hosts France for themselves and won the European championship for the first time. Then Santos and the national team were awarded the Order of Merit at home.

Portugal entered the 2017 Confederation Cup as European champions . The team prevailed against Mexico , hosts Russia and New Zealand in the preliminary round , but failed in the semifinals on penalties to Chile and finally finished third. In qualifying for the 2018 World Cup, Portugal lost 2-0 in their first game in Switzerland , but were able to win all nine other games and thus secure participation in the World Cup. In the finals, Portugal survived the group stage and reached the round of 16, but were eliminated there after a 2-1 loss to Uruguay .

In the 2018/19 UEFA Nations League, which was held for the first time , Portugal faced Poland and Italy in Group A3 . As group winners, they qualified for the finals in their home country . There Santos led the national team after a 3-1 victory in the semifinals against Switzerland and a 1-0 victory in the final against the Netherlands to win the second title in the association's history.

Achievements and titles

DG Estoril Praia

FC Porto

AEK Athens

Portugal

Individual awards

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j Santos will succeed Rehhagel from 1 Jul 2010 on uefa.com
  2. ↑ Santos for Koeman from May 20, 2006 on transfermarkt.de
  3. ↑ Ferrer new AEK coach from June 8, 2006 on transfermarkt.de
  4. ↑ Benfica released Fernando Santos on August 20, 2007 on transfermarkt.de
  5. ↑ Santos trains PAOK from September 4, 2007 on transfermarkt.de
  6. ↑ Fernando Santos will succeed Rehhagel from July 1, 2010 on bz-berlin.de
  7. ↑ Santos mucking out Rehhagel estate from August 2, 2010 on spox.com
  8. ↑ Match report: Serbia - Greece 0: 1 (0: 1) on weltfussball.de
  9. ↑ Match report: Greece - Georgia 1: 1 (0: 1) on weltfussball.de
  10. ^ Awards in Greece from December 23, 2010 on transfermarkt.de
  11. ↑ European Championship qualification 2010/2011 - Group F on weltfussball.de
  12. ↑ Fernando Santos is planning his departure. In: fussball-wm-total.de. FOOTBALL WORLD CUP total, February 27, 2014, accessed on February 28, 2014 .
  13. ↑ fifa.com: "Decisions of the FIFA Disciplinary Committee on World Cup cases"
  14. ↑ fifa.com: "Fernando Santos new national coach in Portugal" ( Memento from September 25, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
  15. ↑ Spiegel.de: "Portugal before the semi-finals: Just no star cult"
personal data
SURNAME Santos, Fernando
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Costa Santos, Fernando Manuel (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Portuguese football coach
DATE OF BIRTH October 10, 1954
PLACE OF BIRTH Lisbon