Paulo Autuori

Autuori as Iraqi coach (2012 )

Paulo Autuori de Mello or short Paulo Autuori ( born August 15, 1956 in Rio de Janeiro) is a Brazilian football coach.

Coaching career

Early rose Autuori into the coaching. Previously, he graduated from the Universidade Castelo Branco his degree in Sport. On the Pontifical Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro and the Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, he finished more sport -based subjects. His first job as coach took over Autuori In 1975, at the age of 24, at AA Portuguesa (RJ). After he was there for four years to gain experience, he moved in 1979 to América FC ( RJ). Two seasons later, he signed on at EC São Bento, before the football coach about the stations Marilia AC and Bonsucesso FC Botafogo FR 1986, of what was most important appointment came. In the same year moved Autuori to other European countries, where he was manager of Vitória Guimarães. He led the team to end the season on a surprising third place behind Benfica and FC Porto. With Paulinho Cascavel he also had the most accurate attacker the league on his team. In the UEFA Cup 1986/87 he led the team to the quarter- finals, where they eliminated against Borussia Mönchengladbach 0:3 and 2:2. For Vitória this was the best result in this competition in the club's history. Although Autuori achieved good performance to both sides parted in the summer of 1987 and again Autuori signed to Nacional Funchal, who played second-rate at this time. The coach led the team to second place and thereby helped her to rise in the Primeira Divisão. 1988/89 the club played for the first time in the Portuguese top flight football league. The Brazilian placed his team at the end of the season in tenth place and managed so sure the league. His performances aroused again desires with his old club Vitória Guimarães, so that he then in the summer of 1989 signed for the second time. 1989/90 he led Vitória in fourth place in the league. In the following year it was worse and the crew found himself only in mid-table. So it took Autuori in 1991 to Funchal, where he accepted the post of coach at Marítimo Funchal. The club he led in subsequent years to a successful time. One never underperformed seventh and fifth place in 1993 and 1994 managed to the best end of the season the club's history. Thus, the club in 1993/94 first qualifying for the UEFA Cup, where it then but with 0:2 and 2:2 was eliminated in the first round against Royal Antwerp FC. In the UEFA Cup 1994/95 the team then failed only in round two against the eventual finalists Juventus. In the same year, the team moved one to the final of the Taça de Portugal, where the final was lost on 10 June 1995 with 0-2 against Sporting Lisbon.

At the end of the season he moved Autuori back to Brazil, where he was responsible for a short time Botafogo FR and won the national championship with these. For the 1996/97 season he returned to Portugal, where the trainer was first taken at one of the big clubs in the country, with the capital club Benfica, under contract. There he took over from Mário Wilson. After Autuori but failed to respect the claims of the club, its predecessor was his successor. In the same year he became head coach at Cruzeiro Belo Horizonte. With these he won only the state championship of Minas Gerais and then led them into the final of the Copa Libertadores. After 0-0 and 0-1 against Peruvian Sporting Cristal representatives, it was decided the contest itself. Contactors of the golden gate on 13 August 1997 was Elivelton. In the following four years Autuori supervised a total of nine clubs, but without success. So he reached in 2002 among others to Peru, where he managed the team for a short time, which he in 1995 with Cruzeiro still defeated in the final of the Copa Libertadores. With Sporting Cristal he finally won the Primera División Peruana, which he has already won last year with Alianza Lima. 2003 Autuori was first coach and took over this position in the Peruvian country selection. This he has subsequently at the Copa America 2004 in their own country. Although he led the team to the quarter finals, but retired there from against Argentina. In April 2005 he returned to the Peruvian Association then again the back and took over for Émerson Leão at FC São Paulo, with this he should for the second time in his coaching career to reach the final of the Copa Libertadores. Opponent this time was league rival Atlético Paranaense. After a 1-1 draw at the Estádio Beira- Rio FC won the return match 4-0 for itself. Márcio Amoroso, Fabão, Luizão Diego Tardelli and were the scorers for São Paulo. Thanks to this success, the team was eligible to participate in the FIFA Club World Cup 2005. These secured the club after victories against al -Ittihad and Liverpool. Scorer in the 1-0 final win against Liverpool on 18 December 2005 was Mineiro.

On 29 December 2005, eleven days after the victory of the FIFA Club World Cup, Autuori was to switch to the Kashima Antlers known to Japan. He replaced the successful coach Toninho Cerezo. After a season without success, he was hired for the 2007 season for the third time from Cruzeiro Belo Horizonte. In the same year he moved to Al- Rayyan Sports Club in Qatar. After two years without a title, he moved to Grêmio Porto Alegre, but shortly afterwards he returned to Al- Rayyan. In 2009 he moved with his team in the final of the Emir of Qatar Cup, but had to concede defeat with 1:2 Al- Gharafa. In the following year made ​​it to the club again in the final feed. This time Autuori kept his team the upper hand and won 1-0 against Umm Salal Sport Club -.

After a temporary commitment to the Olympic selection Qatar Autuoris took over on February 18, 2012, the Qatar national football team as the new head coach, but was released after only 11 months in mid-January 2013.

Achievements

• Rise in the Primeira Divisão with Nacional Funchal: 1988
• Brazilian champion with Botafogo FR: 1995
• State Championship of Minas Gerais with Cruzeiro Belo Horizonte 1997
• Copa Libertadores with Cruzeiro Belo Horizonte 1997
• FIFA Club World Cup with FC São Paulo: 2005
• Copa Libertadores with Sao Paulo: 2005