Otto Glória

Otto Glória
Otto Glória (1969)
Personnel
Surname	Otaviano Martins Glória
birthday	January 9, 1917
place of birth	Rio de Janeiro ,  Brazil
date of death	4th September 1986
Place of death	Rio de Janeiro ,  Brazil
Stations as a trainer
Years	station
1951	CR Vasco da Gama
1952-1954	America FC (RJ)
1954-1959	Benfica Lisbon
1959-1961	Belenenses Lisbon
1961	Sporting Lisbon
1962	Olympique Marseille
1963	CR Vasco da Gama
1964-1966	Portugal
1964-1965	FC Porto
1965-1966	Sporting Lisbon
1966-1968	Atlético Madrid
1968-1970	Benfica Lisbon
1970	America FC (RJ)
1971-1972	Gremio Porto Alegre
1973-1975	Portuguesa de Desportos
1977	FC Santos
1978-1979	CF Monterrey
1979	CR Vasco da Gama
1979-1982	Nigeria
1982-1983	Portugal
1983	CR Vasco da Gama

Otaviano Martins Glória , in Brazil Oto Glória (born January 9, 1917 in Rio de Janeiro , † September 4, 1986 there ) was a Brazilian football coach .

Career

Otto Glória's football coaching career began in 1951 at CR Vasco da Gama .

In 1954 he moved to Portugal where he became the first of numerous renowned Brazilian coaches who worked there in the 1950s and 1960s. From 1954 to 1959 he was on the Benfica Bank in Lisbon . Glória managed to professionalize the club and also to break the supremacy of Sporting in the championship . His main focus was the discovery of young talent, including from the African overseas provinces. Until 1959 he celebrated two championships and two cup wins with Benfica . From 1959 to 1961 at Belenenses Lisbon , Glória won the trophy again in 1960. During this time he also wrote a regular column for the daily Diário de Lisboa under the title Otto Glória diz ("Otto Glória says").

After a brief engagement with Sporting Lisbon , he hired for four months in 1962 for the French second division side Olympique Marseille and rose with the club to Ligue 1 . In 1963 he returned briefly to Brazil and again trained CR Vasco da Gama.

In 1964, Glória was back in Portugal: He was both coach of FC Porto and coach of the Portuguese national team . With the team that would go down in history as Magriços , he reached third place at the 1966 World Cup , including after a 3-1 win against defending champions Brazil, and thus the best World Cup placement of a Portuguese selection to date.

Then Glória was committed by the Spanish capital club Atlético Madrid . There he qualified in the 1966/67 season as fourth in the table for the Messestädte Cup . In the 1967/68 season he was given a leave of absence five game days before the end of the season in fifth place in the table. He then became the coach of Benfica Lisbon for the second time. There he won two more championships and the cup again. He also reached the final of the European Cup in 1967/68 with the club , in which Benfica lost 4-1 to Manchester United after extra time . In February 1970 he was released from the club.

For the following seven years, Glória was again active in his home country. In 1973 he won the third and last state championship of São Paulo in the club's history with the Portuguesa de Desportos from São Paulo . Here, however, referee Armando Marques gave strong assistance. The play-off at the Estádio do Morumbi against FC Santos with the world champions Pelé and Carlos Alberto went to penalties. After two penalties, Santos scored his third to make it 2-0 and Wilsinho gave the Portuguesa the third. Marques then whistled, mistakenly believing that everything was decided. Otto Glória knew better and immediately drove his team onto the bus to leave immediately. When Marques noticed his mistake after the Portuguesa leadership protested, there were no Portuguesa players left to take the remaining two penalties. After no time could be found in the calendar to reschedule the game, both clubs were declared champions.

In the 1978/79 season he coached the Mexican club CF Monterrey . From September 1979 he trained again Vasco in Rio. He led the team around goalkeeper Émerson Leão and striker Roberto Dinamite in the finals held in December against SC Internacional from Porto Alegre , but they lost 2-0 and 2-1.

In 1980 he became the national coach of Nigeria and won the Africa Cup of the same year. He also supervised the Nigerian selection in the same year at the Olympic Games in Moscow , where the Africans were eliminated after the first round as bottom of the group. After Nigeria was eliminated in the preliminary round at the African Cup of Nations in 1982 , he resigned.

From 1982 he was in charge of Portugal's selection again during qualification for the European Championship in 1984. After a 4-0 defeat in a friendly against Brazil in Coimbra in June 1983 , however, he vacated his post after only seven internationals.

In the second half of 1983 Otto Glória ended his career after returning to CR Vasco da Gama. This time he led the club into the quarter-finals of the national championship and was eliminated there against the eventual champions CR Flamengo with 1: 2 and 1: 1.

successes

• Portuguese champion : 1955, 1957, 1968, 1969
• Portuguese Cup Winner : 1955, 1957, 1960, 1969
• São Paulo State Championship : 1973
• Africa Cup : 1980

Web links

• Otto Glória in the database of weltfussball.de

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Rogerio Revelles: Armando Marques ... a majestade do apito , Tarde de Pacaembu, September, 2007.
2. ↑ Leandro Silveira: Há 45 anos, erro de Armando Marques fez Santos e Portuguesa dividirem título , O Estado de S. Paulo , August 26, 2018.