Paulo Bento

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Paulo Bento
Paulo Bento managing South Korea at 2019 AFC Asian Cup.jpg
Bento as South Korea coach at the Asia Cup 2019
Personnel
Surname Paulo Jorge Gomes Bento
birthday 20th June 1969
place of birth Lisbon ,  Portugal
size 175 cm
position Defensive Midfield
Juniors
Years station
1988-1989 CF Estrela Amadora
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1989-1991 CF Estrela Amadora 37 0(0)
1991-1994 Vitória Guimarães 95 (13)
1994-1996 Benfica Lisbon 49 0(2)
1996-2000 Real Oviedo 136 0(5)
2000-2004 Sporting Lisbon 92 0(2)
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
1992-2002 Portugal 35 0(0)
Stations as a trainer
Years station
2004-2005 Sporting Lisbon (youth coach)
2005-2009 Sporting Lisbon
2010-2014 Portugal
2016 Cruzeiro Belo Horizonte
2016-2017 Olympiacos Piraeus
2018 Chongqing Lifan
2018– South Korea
1 Only league games are given.

Paulo Jorge Gomes Bento (born June 20, 1969 in Lisbon ) is a Portuguese football coach and former football player . He coaches the South Korean national soccer team .

Career as a football player

society

During his playing days, Bento was mostly active as a defensive midfielder, representing the teams of Estrela Amadora , Vitória Guimarães , Benfica Lisbon , Real Oviedo and ended his career in the summer of 2004 at the age of 35 at Sporting Lisbon .

Between 1988 and 1989, Bento laced its shoes for CF Estrela Amadora's youth team . For the 1989/90 season he was part of the Amadora professional squad. The club, which only rose to the first Portuguese league in the summer of 1988, was able to celebrate the cup victory that year . As a result, Bento was able to win a national title quite early in its career. Until 1991 he was a member of the club and was able to gain first match practice. In the summer of 1991 he decided to move to league rivals Vitória Guimarães . There the edgy defensive player developed into a high performer. The top teams in Portugal recognized these achievements and for the 1994/95 season Benfica Lisbon secured the services of Bento. There, too, he showed consistently good performances, so that foreign teams became aware of him. In 1996 he finally ventured abroad, to Real Oviedo . Before that, he was again a cup winner with Benfica. Although he had a regular place in Spain and played well, it was never enough for a title there. In 2000 she returned to Portugal. With Sporting Lisbon he should collect titles again in the autumn of his career. First, in 2000, the Portuguese Super Cup was won before league games started . In 2002, with another Supercup win, cup win and championship, the national triple was made perfect. In 2004 he said goodbye to the football stage.

National team

Bento played 35 times for the Portuguese national team . He was one of the top performers during the EM 2000 , in which Portugal were eliminated in the semi-finals, and was in the squad for the 2002 World Cup .

He made his debut on January 15, 1992 in a 0-0 draw against neighboring Spain . He played his last game for Portugal when he lost 1-0 to South Korea at the 2002 World Cup .

successes

Career as a coach

Paulo Bento as coach of Sporting Lisbon

After he had ended his active career as a player, Bento was hired by his former club Sporting Lisbon as a youth coach and with his team Portuguese youth champions. After the dismissal of José Peseiro , he was promoted to head coach of the professional team in the course of the 2005/06 season and led the seventh-placed team at the end of the season to second place. Bento built young players like Nani , João Moutinho and Miguel Veloso into the team, whom he had already looked after in their youth.

Sporting Lisbon played in the UEFA Champions League in the 2006/07 season and narrowly missed the last 16 despite beating Inter Milan . In the Portuguese league, the team landed again in second place and won the Portuguese Cup. Before the start of the 2007/08 season, Sporting won the Portuguese Supercup under his leadership . In 2007/08 Sporting Lisbon played again in the UEFA Champions League. At the end of this season, the national cup was defended by beating FC Porto in the final . On November 6, 2009, Bento resigned as a trainer in response to criticism of his person.

On September 20, 2010, Bento became the coach of the Portuguese national team. At the EM 2012 he reached the semi-finals with Portugal and failed there with 2: 4 on penalties at the tournament winner Spain. Before the 2014 World Cup , where Portugal failed in the preliminary round, his contract had been extended to 2016. On September 11, 2014, a few days after a home defeat in the first game of the European Championship qualification against Albania , Bento and the FPF agreed to end their cooperation.

From May to June 2016 he trained the Cruzerio from Brazil. On August 8, 2016, Bento took over the coaching position at Olympiacos Piraeus. In March 2017 he was given leave of absence after three league defeats in a row, although his team was at the top of the table by seven points and was in the cup semi-finals and the second round of the Europa League . The club won the Greek championship at the end of the season. In December 2017 he was signed by the Chinese first division club Chongqing Lifan , but released in July 2018. In August 2018 he took over the national team of South Korea and signed a contract until the 2022 World Cup .

successes

Web links

Commons : Paulo Bento  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Paulo Bento appointed as new coach by the national football association ( Memento of September 28, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
  2. ↑ Portugal's national coach Bento resigns. In: Spiegel Online of September 11, 2014 (accessed on September 11, 2014).
  3. ↑ Trainer at Chongqing Lifan , report on ionline.sapo.pt from December 11, 2017, page in portugal, accessed on June 18, 2018
  4. ^ National football team of South Korea. Süddeutsche Zeitung , August 17, 2018, accessed on August 25, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Bento, Paulo
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Gomes Bento, Paulo Jorge (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Portuguese soccer player and coach
DATE OF BIRTH 20th June 1969
PLACE OF BIRTH Lisbon