António André

António André Ferreira dos Santos called António André ( born December 24, 1957 in Vila do Conde ) is a former Portuguese football player.

Playing career

Association

António André comes from a family of fishermen from Vila do Conde. He started his footballing career as a youth when his native club Rio Ave FC. In 1978 he received his first professional contract with Varzim SC. The 1.71 m wide defensive midfielder continued to work with his family in the fishing and brought it in six years at Varzim on 104 missions, where he scored 19 goals. With Varzim the defensive player in 1980/81 rose after the end of the season from the second division, but managed its chances of promotion. After two class Receive André joined in the summer of 1984, the national giants FC Porto. After initial problems and bad luck with injuries is established when the midfielder FCP. In the following nine years he won with Porto a total of 19 titles. The highlight was winning the European Cup of Champions 1987. En route to the final they sat down, among others, against teams like Brøndby IF and FC Dynamo Kyiv through before the team took over in the final against Bayern Munich. André was left of coach Artur Jorge over the full season on the field and thus helped his team to a 2-1 victory and thus the first title in this competition. 1992 undertook the club Paulinho Santos, with the André from now fighting for a regular place. Sixteen years younger Santos finally prevailed. André ended with Porto his career in 1995 at the age of 37 years. Under then manager Bobby Robson he was rarely used.

National

In the Portuguese national team André made ​​his debut in 1985. He clocked up 19 international caps and was part of the Portuguese squad in the Football World Cup 1986 in Mexico. André played in the first group match against England, which won his team 1-0, and then in the 0-1 defeat against Poland Portugal difference in the preliminaries of.

Achievements

• Promotion to the first Portuguese Liga with the SC Varzim: 1982
• European Champions Cup with FC Porto: 1987
• UEFA Super Cup with FC Porto: 1987
• World Cup with FC Porto: 1987
• Portuguese champions FC Porto: 1985, 1986, 1988, 1990, 1992, 1993, 1995
• Taça de Portugal with FC Porto: 1988, 1991, 1994
• Supercopa de Oliveira with FC Porto: 1984, 1986, 1990, 1991, 1993, 1994

Coaching career

After the end of his course André was added to the coaching staff of FC Porto and stood by many past head coaches of the club as an assistant to the side. In this post he won under Jose Mourinho in 2004 the UEFA Champions League and the year before already the UEFA Cup.