José Augusto de Almeida
José Augusto Pinto de Almeida ( born April 13, 1937 in Barreiro ) is a former football player and later coach. In the heyday of Benfica Lisbon at the beginning of the 1960s he won numerous titles with the club, including two European Champions Cup. With the outstanding Portuguese national team of that era, he reached the third place in the 1966 World Cup in England. As a coach, he led the fate of the Portuguese national teams of men and women, and trained alongside Benfica numerous other club teams in Portugal, Spain and Morocco.
Career
Player
José Augusto began his career at FC Barreirense in his hometown of Barreiro. For the former first division team, he completed on May 7, 1958 his first cap for Portugal. The friendly against England was lost 1:2. In the season 1958/59 he moved to Benfica and experienced the most successful moments in the club's history of Benfica at the side of players, such as Eusébio and Mário Coluna. Five times he stood with Benfica in the final of the European Cup. Twice he won the Cup with Benfica. Eight times he was national champion and three times Cup winners.
In addition, Augusto was a member of the Magriços, the legendary Portuguese national team which reached the 1966 third place at the World Cup in England. In 1968 he ended his international career in 1969 and also his club career at Benfica.
Coach
His first as a coach was 1969-1970 Benfica, where he won the national cup competition.
From March 1972 to November 1973 he coached the Portuguese national team where he succeeded José Gomes De Silva, who missed the qualification for 1972 European Championship in Belgium. Under José Augusto Portugal was also in the mini- mentioned Taça Copa Independencia to 150 years of independence in Brazil's 1972 second from 20 participants, and was defeated there until the final minute of the final hosts and reigning world champions 0-1.
But after the debacle in qualifying for the European Championship 1974 in Germany, where Portugal among others defeated by Bulgaria and got a draw against Northern Ireland only, the Treaty of José Augusto was not renewed. Later, he took third place at the European Championships in 1984 in France as an assistant coach Fernando Cabrita with Portugal.
In addition, José Augusto worked as a club coach at Vitória Setúbal FC Barreirense Portimonense SC, SC Farense and FC Penafiel. In Spain, he trained the CD Logroñés as well as in Morocco, the two clubs Kawkab Marrakech and FUS Rabat.
From 2004 to 2007 he was the coach of the women's national team of Portugal.
Achievements
- Portuguese champions (8): 1959/60, 1960/61, 1962 /63 1963/64 1964 /65 1966/67, 1967/68, 1968/69
- Portuguese Cup Winners ( 3): 1962, 1964, 1969
- European Champions Cup ( 2): 1961, 1962
1920: Committee | Ribeiro do rice | Cândido de Oliveira | Maia Loureiro 1930: Laurindo Grijó | Tavares da Silva | Salvador do Carmo | Ribeiro dos Reis | Cândido de Oliveira 1940: Tavares da Silva | Virgílio Paula | Armando Sampaio | Salvador do Carmo 1950: Tavares da Silva | Cândido de Oliveira | Salvador do Carmo | Fernando Vaz | Tavares da Silva | Jose Maria Antunes 1960: Armando Ferreira | Fernando Peyroteo | Armando Ferreira | José Maria Antunes | Manuel da Luz Afonso | José Gomes da Silva | Jose Maria Antunes 1970: José Gomes da Silva | José Augusto | José Maria Pedroto | Juca Pereira | Mário Wilson 1980: Joey Pereira | Otto Glória | Fernando Cabrita | Committee: Fernando Cabrita, António Morais, Toni and José Augusto | José Augusto Torres | Ruy Seabra | Juca Pereira | 1990: Artur Jorge | Carlos Queiroz | Nelo Vingada | António Oliveira | Artur Jorge | Humberto Coelho 2000: António Oliveira | Agostinho Oliveira | Luiz Felipe Scolari | Carlos Queiroz 2010s: Paulo Bento
- National football team (Portugal )
- Football coach (Portugal )
- Born in 1937
- Man
- Portuguese
- UEFA Champions League winners