Ricardo Sá Pinto

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Ricardo Sá Pinto
Ricardo Sá Pinto 2019.jpg
Sá Pinto (2019)
Personnel
Surname Ricardo Manuel da Silva Sá Pinto
birthday October 10, 1972
place of birth PortoPortugal
size 178 cm
position striker
Juniors
Years station
SC Salgueiros
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1992-1994 SC Salgueiros 57 (17)
1994-1997 Sporting Lisbon 77 (20)
1997-2000 Real Sociedad San Sebastian 66 0(6)
2000-2006 Sporting Lisbon 97 (14)
2006-2007 Standard Liege 21 0(2)
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
1994-2001 Portugal 45 (10)
Stations as a trainer
Years station
2010-2011 União Leiria (Assistant)
2011–2012 Sporting Lisbon (Youth)
2012 Sporting Lisbon
2013 Red Star Belgrade
2013-2015 OFI Crete
2015-2016 Belenenses Lisbon
2017-2018 Standard Liege
2018-2019 Legia Warsaw
2019–2019 Sporting Braga
1 Only league games are given.

Ricardo Manuel da Silva Sá Pinto (born October 10, 1972 in Porto ) is a former Portuguese football player and current coach. He was mostly offensive and was used as a striker as well as an attacking midfielder.

Career

As a player

society

He made his debut in 1992 with SC Salgueiros . Before that, he went through the youth departments of the club. For the 1994/95 season he moved to Sporting Lisbon in the Portuguese capital . Pinto celebrated his first successes with the green and whites . In 1995 the club won the Super Cup and the national cup . Three years after moving to Sporting, in 1997/98, he was drawn to the Primera División for the Spanish representative Real Sociedad . In their first year with the Basques , the team finished third and qualified for the UEFA Champions League . There they came in the following season in the round of 16. Sociedad could not build on the success of 1998 in the next two seasons. In the summer of 2000, Pinto decided to return to Portugal. There he joined Sporting for the second time. During this time, he managed to collect more national titles. His greatest triumph should be winning the championship in 2002. He stayed with the club for six years. To end his career, he dared to take another step abroad. In 2006 he was signed by Standard Liège and played for a year in the Belgian Jupiler League .

National team

Even in the youth field, Pinto was called up for the national teams of his home country. He was nominated for the U-21 European Football Championship in 1994 and made it to the final with Portugal . There you had to admit defeat with 0: 1 after extending the selection of Italy .

For the senior team, he made 45 games, including 25 as a Sporting and 20 as a Real Sociedad player, and he scored 10 goals. His first international match he played on September 7, 1994 in Belfast against the Northern Irish national football team . Portugal won 2-1 and Sá Pinto scored the winning goal. For the European Football Championship in 1996 and the European Football Championship in 2000 , he was appointed to the Portuguese squad. His last game was against Cyprus on June 6, 2001 (Portugal won 6-0). Due to an injury, he was unable to participate in the 2002 World Cup in Japan and South Korea and represent his country.

Sá Pinto made negative headlines on March 26, 1997. At that time he was not considered for an international match by the then national coach Artur Jorge . Then Pinto drove to the Portuguese training ground and knocked Jorge down. For this action he was banned from all national and international tournaments for twelve months.

As a trainer

On February 13, 2012, Sá Pinto was hired as head coach at Sporting Lisbon after Domingos Paciência was sacked the same day. Sá Pinto previously coached the Sporting youth team. In early October 2012, Sá Pinto was dismissed after a slow start to the season. Since March 19, 2013, he has been coaching the Serbian club Red Star Belgrade , where he signed a contract until the end of the 2013/14 season.

successes

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Pinto beats Jorge  ( page no longer available , search in web archivesInfo: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / go.orf.at  
  2. Sporting dismisses Domingos
  3. suedostschweiz.ch: New trainer for Gelson Fernandes , October 5, 2012, accessed on October 6, 2012
  4. kicker online: Sá Pinto takes over Roter Stern