Humberto Coelho

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Humberto Coelho
Coelho 2012.JPG
Coelho, 2012
Personnel
Surname Humberto Manuel de Jesus Coelho
birthday April 20, 1950
place of birth Cedofeita ,  Portugal
size 185 cm
position Defense ( central defender )
Juniors
Years station
Ramaldense FC
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1968-1975 Benfica Lisbon 189 (24)
1975-1977 Paris Saint-Germain 42 0(7)
1976-1977 Paris Saint-Germain B. 4 0(1)
1977 Las Vegas Quicksilvers 22 0(3)
1977-1984 Benfica Lisbon 167 (38)
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
1968-1983 Portugal 64 (6)
Stations as a trainer
Years station
1985-1986 Sporting Braga
1986 SC Salgueiros
1997-2000 Portugal
2000-2002 Morocco
2002-2004 South Korea
2005-2006 Al-Shabab
2008-2009 Tunisia
1 Only league games are given.

Humberto Manuel de Jesus Coelho (born April 20, 1950 in Cedofeita ) is a former Portuguese football player and current coach .

Player career

society

The defender Humberto Coelho began his professional career in 1968 at the age of 18 at Benfica Lisbon . From then on he developed into one of the best central defenders in Portugal. The young Coelho played at Benfica in a team with the Portuguese football legend Eusébio . After his first season he was able to celebrate the first Portuguese championship title. Four more league titles and three successes in the Taça de Portugal were to follow before he moved to France in 1975 to join the Paris Saint-Germain club, which had just been founded five years earlier . He played in Paris until 1977. However, it was not enough to win a title. The best placement during this time was ninth in the 1976/77 season. The year before they played against relegation for a long time. After a short stint in the USA at the Las Vegas Quicksilvers , where Coelho met Eusébio again and played with the Germans Axel Neumann and Franz Krauthausen , the defender soon moved back to his Portuguese homeland to Benfica, where he was two more champions has been. After the 1983/84 season, the Portuguese footballer of the year 1974 announced the end of his career.

National team

In his first year as a professional, Coelho was also nominated for the first time for the Portuguese national team . There he made his debut in the qualifier for the 1970 World Cup on October 27, 1968, in a 3-0 win against Romania . By 1983 he should have made a total of 64 missions in the dress of the Southwest Europeans. On April 27, 1983 he played for the colors of his country for the last time. Due to a persistent injury, he ended his national team career shortly thereafter.

Coaching career

In 1985 Coelho took over the post of head coach at Sporting Braga . After a respectable ninth place in the league, he moved to SC Salgueiros the following season . After he was released there, the former international remained silent for a long time.

In December 1997, the popular Coelho was appointed national coach after Portugal failed to qualify for the 1998 World Cup . Coelho succeeded in forming an ensemble from the start team around Luís Figo , Rui Costa and Fernando Couto , which after years of failures finally became a unit. At the European Football Championship in 2000 , his team caused a sensation at the start against England . They were quickly down 2-0, but they still won the game 3-2. After victories over Romania and Germany , they made it to the quarter-finals as group winners. The trip of the furious Portuguese was only over in the semifinals against the current world champion France. They lost to Golden Goal , which Zinédine Zidane scored with a penalty in extra time. Nevertheless, the Team of the Year 2000 was the best Portuguese national team since 1966. After the European Championships, Humberto Coelho did not renew his expiring contract. He was succeeded by António Oliveira , who led the team to the 2002 World Cup . Shortly after the European Championships in Belgium and the Netherlands, Coelho took over the Moroccan national team . Through qualification, he led the team to the 2002 African Cup of Nations in Mali. After a good start, with a draw against Ghana and a 2-1 win against Burkina Faso , the team failed due to a defeat on the last day of the preliminary round against the South African selection . In 2003 he succeeded Guus Hiddink as the national coach of South Korea . Although he was able to celebrate the East Asian championship in December 2003, he had to resign in 2004 after a draw in the World Cup qualifier against the Maldives . He then trained Al-Shabab in Saudi Arabia until the end of 2006 .

Coelho took over from the dismissed Roger Lemerre in the Tunisian national team at the beginning of June 2008 and received a three-year contract. After he failed to qualify for the World Cup in South Africa , the football teacher was fired. Coelho was then replaced by Faouzi Benzarti .

Success as a player

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Individually

Success as a trainer

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Coelho trains Tunisia from June 2, 2008 on kicker.de
  2. ↑ Tunisia trainer fired on November 24th, 2009 on bild.de.
predecessor Office successor

Eusebio 		Portugal's Footballer of the Year
1974
João Alves
personal data
SURNAME Coelho, Humberto
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Coelho, Humberto Manuel de Jesus (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Portuguese soccer player and coach
DATE OF BIRTH April 20, 1950
PLACE OF BIRTH Cedofeita , Portugal