Diamantino Miranda

Diamantino Manuel Fernandes Miranda (born 3 May 1959 Moita ) is a former Portuguese football player and current coach. As a player, he was better known by his first name Diamantino.

Playing career

Earlier in his career played Diamantino for Vitória Setúbal and Benfica Lisbon and the Amora FC. Due to his young age, he was not a regular at these stations, but was able to celebrate with Benfica his first national success. In 1981, Diamantino to Boavista Porto, where he was first employed as a regular player. After just one season he returned to Benfica. In the following eight years of his career he became the top performers and key players in the Portuguese traditional club and was instrumental in many titles. Until 1990 he won with his team the championship 4 times, 4 times the cup and 2 times the Supercup. To this end, he stood still in the 1988 and 1990 final of the European Champions' Cup. In the first experiment his team failed 6-5 on penalties at PSV Eindhoven and the second final of the club lost 0-1 to AC Milan. After the lost European Cup final in 1990 Diamantino moved to Vitória Setúbal, for which he had already played at the beginning of his career. With the club he went down after a season, but managed in his last season as a professional footballer yet to climb back to the first division.

National

Between 1981 and 1986 graduated Diamantino total of 22 caps for the Portuguese national football team, scoring 5 goals. Amongst others he belonged to the squad at the European Football Championship in 1984 and the Football World Cup 1986.

Coaching career

With Vitória Setúbal Diamantino Miranda initially trained his last professional club, with whom he had still managed to move up to the premier league. For the season 1995/96 he was bound by the SC Campomaiorense who were represented for the first time this season in their history in the Super League, the class but could not keep. After a short stint at Desportivo de Beja Diamantino returned to Campomaiorense and managed with the team 's re-emergence. Due to the bad start to the season but he was already released a short time later and took over as coach at Gil Vicente FC, ​​who were relegated in the previous season in the second division. From 1998 to 2000 and from 2003 to 2005 Diamantino coached the second division FC Felgueiras. After the club have lost their licenses at the end of the 2004/05 season, he coached Portimonense SC and SC Varzim. From January to May 2008, he was the coach of SC Olhanense. Since 27 May 2008, he is the assistant coach Quique Sánchez Flores at 31fachen Portuguese champions Benfica. In the summer of 2009, the contract of the head coach was disbanded, but Miranda remained the club as an assistant coach.

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• As a player: Portuguese champions: ( 4x) 1983, 1984, 1987, 1989
• Portuguese Cup Winners: (5x) 1980, 1983, 1985, 1986, 1987
• Portuguese Super Cup: (3x) 1980, 1985, 1989