Manuel Gomes (football coach)

Manuel Gomes

Personal information
Full name	Manuel Gonçalves Gomes
Date of birth	29 May 1951 (1951-05-29) (age 60)
Club information
Current club	Churchill Brothers (manager)
Teams managed
Years	Team
1981–1982	Clube Atlético de Valdevez
1983–1984	Gil Vicente F.C.
1984–1986	Clube Desportivo das Aves
1986–1987	Associação Desportiva de Fafe
1987–1991	Futebol Clube Tirsense
1991–1992	Vitória de Setúbal
1991–1992	Futebol Clube de Famalicão
1992–1993	Futebol Clube Paços de Ferreira
1993–1994	Sporting Clube de Braga
1996–1998	Angola National Team
1998–1999	Clube Desportivo das Aves
2004	Maldives National team
2009–2010	Grupo Desportivo Estoril Praia
2011–present	Churchill Brothers SC

Manuel Gomes(born 29 May 1951), is a Portuguese football (soccer) coach.

Career

His successes include four times promotion to the Primeira Liga with clubs like Clube Desportivo das Aves and Futebol Clube Tirsense , winning the Liga Intercalar with Grupo Desportivo Estoril Praia and winning the Durand Cup with the Churchill Brothers SC.

Gomes, known as ‘Neca’, is best remembered for his stint as part of the coaching staff of Portugal in the 2002 World Cup where Seleccao could not progress into the knockout rounds.

Gomes was also the assistant coach at Benfica for two seasons and is said to have guided Estoril-Praia Sad, a Portuguese second division club, to beat his former club’s B side 4-3 in, the final of the south finals of the Liga Intercalar, a reserve league where the junior players are handed an opportunity to excel.

The 59-year-old has about 30 years of experience in coaching and is a certified UEFA Pro-license coach and has worked in Asia with Maldives where he steered the Islanders to some remarkable results in the 2006 FIFA World Cup qualifiers.

Maldives beating Mongolia 12-0 is one of their biggest victories till date and then they held World Cuppers South Korea to memorable 0-0 draw at home.

The coach was formerly associated with Angola, whom it took to the 1998 African Nations Cup finals in Burkina Faso.

Gomes, formerly assistant coach to the Portuguese national team, will be the seventh coach at Churchill Brothers since the departure of coach Karim Bencherifa in 2008. Drago Mamic was the last season coach who got the boot after Churchill finished fourth in the I-League, their poorest result since 2006.

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