Joel Santana

Joel Santana at the Carnival of Rio de Janeiro

Joel Natalino Santana (born 25 December 1948 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil ) is a former Brazilian football player and current football coach. Currently ( 2011) he is coaching the EC Bahia in Brazil. Santana worked on numerous Brazilian clubs - some even several times - and even in Arabia. In addition, he already coached the South African national football team.

  • 2.1 As a player
  • 2.2 As a coach

Career

Career as a player

Santana began his professional career as a player in 1971 with CR Vasco da Gama. In 1973, he moved briefly to Olaria AC, where he made ​​the breakthrough. Also, upon his return to Vasco he remained a regular player. From 1976, the defender played four years for América RN and ended his active career in 1980, he had spent exclusively in his home country. His greatest successes were a total of five state championships and the Brazilian Cup in 1974 with Vasco da Gama.

Career as a coach

1981 Santana began his coaching career in the United Arab Emirates at Al- Wasl. After five years he returned to Brazil and took over his former club Vasco da Gama. Until 1992, he oversaw alternately clubs from the Arab region and clubs in his home country. After his second spell at Vasco da Gama, in which he won the state championship in Rio de Janeiro twice in a row with the club, he celebrated in 1994 with the EC Bahia his third title as a coach, the state championship of Bahia. Over the next two seasons, then with CR Flamengo, he won first with Fluminense, the state championship in Rio de Janeiro. This he repeated in 1997 with Botafogo. He had won the championship of his home state with all four big clubs from the region. In 1999, he led the EC Bahia State Championship for the second time of Bahia. His third engagement at Vasco went from 2000 by winning the Coppa Mercosur and the national championship more than successful.

Other titles he won in 2002 and 2003 with the EC Vitória. This was followed by appointments at several other Brazilian clubs. In 2004 he rescued Vasco, Flamengo in 2005 before the descent. After a job in Japan Vegalta Sendai he did the same with Flamengo again in 2007 and 2008 brought even his next State Championship in Rio. In April 2008, Joel Santana, succeeding his compatriot Carlos Alberto Parreira as coach of South Africa. Despite a good fourth place at the 2009 FIFA Confederations Cup in South Africa, he was released in October 2009 and could thus not at the World Cup on home soil in 2010 thereby be; were responsible for the poor results in the friendlies and the failure in the qualification for the African Nations Cup 2010.

Santana returned to the homeland. He was state champion in 2010 with Botafogo. Then he went to Cruzeiro, from 2011 he sat again at the EC Bahia on the bench. End of January 2012 he was again coach of Flamengo. There he was again released end of July 2012 as a coach.

Achievements

As a player

América RN

  • Campeonato Potiguar: 1974, 1977, 1979, 1980

CR Vasco da Gama

  • Campeonato Brasileiro Série A: 1974
  • State Championship in Rio de Janeiro: 1970

As a coach

EC Bahia

  • State Championship of Bahia: 1994, 1999

Botafogo

  • State Championship in Rio de Janeiro: in 1997, 2010

CR Flamengo

  • State Championship in Rio de Janeiro: in 1996, 2008

Fluminense FC

  • State Championship in Rio de Janeiro: 1995

South Africa

  • FIFA Confederations Cup 2009: 4th place

CR Vasco da Gama

  • Copa Mercosur: 2000
  • Campeonato Brasileiro First Division: 2000
  • State Championship in Rio de Janeiro: in 1992, 1993

EC Vitória

  • State of Bahia Championship: 2002, 2003
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