Nelo Vingada

Nelo Vingada
	Vingada in 2014
Personal information
Full name	Eduardo Manuel Martinho Bragança de Vingada
Date of birth	30 March 1953 (age 71)
Place of birth	Serpa, Portugal
Height	1.71 m (5 ft 7 in)
Position(s)	Forward
Senior career*
Years	Team
1964–1974	Atlético CP
1974–1975	Sintrense
1975–1979	Belenenses
Managerial career
1981–1982	Belenenses
1982–1983	Académica
1983–1984	Sintrense
1984–1986	Vilafranquense
1988–1991	Portugal U-20 (assistant manager)
1993–1994	Portugal
1994–1995	Portugal U-20
1995–1996	Portugal Olympic
1996–1997	Saudi Arabia
1997–1998	Benfica (assistant manager)
1999–2003	Marítimo
2003–2004	Zamalek
2004–2005	Egypt Olympic
2005–2006	Académica
2007	Wydad Casablanca
2007–2009	Jordan
2009	Persepolis
2009	Al Ahly
2009	Vitória S.C.
2010	FC Seoul
2011–2012	Dalian Shide
2014	Iran (assistant)
2014	Iran Olympic
2016	Marítimo
2016–2017	NorthEast United
2017	Malaysia
2019	Kerala Blasters (interim manager)
2020–2022	Egypt (football director)
Medal record
Men's football
Representing Portugal (as manager)
UEFA European Under-21 Championship
FIFA U-20 World Cup
Representing Saudi Arabia (as manager)
AFC Asian Cup
	*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Eduardo Manuel "Nelo" Martinho Bragança de Vingada (born 30 March 1953) is a Portuguese football manager and former footballer.

Managerial career

Early years

Vingada was born in Serpa. His first steps as a professional football manager were in Belenenses, and then in Académica de Coimbra in the 1982–83 season, when he was assistant manager for Mário Wilson at Académica. Sintrense and Vilafranquense were his following teams as a manager.^{[citation needed]}

In the 1986–87 season, Vingada was appointed as an assistant manager for Portugal U-20 along with Carlos Queiroz. He was the assistant manager for the Portugal national squad in the World Youth Championships of 1989 in Riyadh and 1991 in Lisbon with Carlos Queiroz as head manager, both won by Portugal.^{[citation needed]}

Portugal U-20

Vingada was appointed as a head manager for Portugal U-20 and his team participated in 1995 World Youth Championship. In this tournament, Portugal U-20 ended in the third place.^{[citation needed]}

The Portugal Olympic football team under his management participated in the 1996 Atlanta Summer Olympics and after a win over Tunisia (2–0) and 1–1 draws against Argentina and the United States, they ended in second place in Group A with the same points and goal difference as the first-placed Argentinians (but with lesser goals scored). Then in the quarter-finals, a win over France (2–1) after extra-time assured them a place in the semi-finals. Once again they played against Argentina, but this time the South Americans won 2–0. For the bronze medal match, they faced Brazil. Portugal was heavily defeated by 5–0.^{[citation needed]}

Saudi Arabia

In the 1996–97 season, Vingada became the manager of the Saudi Arabia national team, winning the Asian Cup in 1996, and qualifying for the 1998 FIFA World Cup, before being sacked from his position prior to the World Cup.^[3]

Return to Portugal

In the 1997–98 and 1998–99 seasons, Vingada worked as an assistant manager for Portuguese club Benfica, along with Graeme Souness as principal manager.^{[citation needed]} Between 1999 and 2003, Vingada was the manager of Marítimo, a Portuguese team from Madeira, and helped the team stay in the Portuguese Liga and qualify once to the Portuguese cup final. In 2003, new Portuguese Real Madrid manager Carlos Queiroz proposed Vingada as assistant manager on 27 June but Carlos Queiroz's proposition was not accepted.^[4]

Zamalek

In the 2003–04 season, Vingada became the manager of Egyptian club El Zamalek. He helped the team win the Egyptian premier league, the Saudi-Egyptian Super Cup, and the African Super Cup against Wydad Casablanca, all in one season.^{[citation needed]}

In the 2004–05 season, he became the manager of Académica de Coimbra.^{[citation needed]}

Egypt and Jordan

In 2005, he became the head manager of the Egyptian national U-23 football team. The team failed to reach the Olympic Games which were being held in Beijing in 2008. Although the Egyptian Football Association wanted Vingada to continue managing the team, he resigned.^{[citation needed]}

In summer 2007, Vingada signed for Moroccan club Wydad Casablanca. Only six weeks after he had assumed the new position, he resigned.^{[citation needed]}

Vingada accepted the offer to manage Jordan national football team and signed a 16-month contract with the Jordan Football Association. Vingada later took on the mission to prepare the Jordanian team for the 2010 FIFA World Cup qualification.^[5] After failing to pass the first round of the qualifiers, Vingada resigned.^{[citation needed]}

Persepolis

On 9 February 2009, Vingada was officially appointed as head manager of Iranian football side Persepolis.^[6] On 17 June 2009, just after five days of signing with Al Ahly he resigned due to family problems.^[7]

Vitória S.C.

On 24 June 2009 he was named as head manager Vitória S.C. in his homeland Portugal and on 7 October 2009 was sacked after four months due to poor results.^[8]

FC Seoul

He officially became a manager of FC Seoul of South Korea in January 2010. On 5 December 2010, after winning a game for 2–1, he became the Champion of South Korea, it was the first time in ten years for FC Seoul. Vingada won the K-League Cup, K-League with FC Seoul.^[9]^[10]^[11] His K-League record was 20 wins, 2 draws, 6 losses in the 2010 season. His winning percentage 71% is a record high in the K-League. On 13 December 2010 FC Seoul offered a one-year contract extension but FC Seoul and Vingada did not agree on the salary conditions. So Vingada went back to Portugal.^[12]^[13]

Vingada became head manager of Chinese Super League side Dalian Shide on 28 August 2011.

Iran U-23

After assisting Carlos Queiroz and the Iran national football team during the qualifiers of the 2014 FIFA World Cup,^[14] he became the manager of the Iran Olympic team, signing a two-year contract until the 2016 Summer Olympics.^[15] At the 2014 Asian Games held in Incheon, South Korea, Iran was defeated 4–1 by Vietnam in their first match which was Iran's worst defeat in the tournament. They drew 1–1 with Kyrgyzstan in the next match, resulting in an early exit from the competition which was Iran's worst result in the Asian Games since its establishment.^[16] As a consequence Vingada was sacked as manager of Iran under-23 team on 9 November 2014.^[17]

Marítimo

In January 2016, he signed with Marítimo, this being the second term at the Madeiran club for him as he was their manager from 1999 till 2003. He ended his second tenure with Marítimo on 23 May 2016 to pursue his career elsewhere.^[18]

North East United FC

In July 2016, it was announced that he will be the new head coach of the North East United FC, part of the Indian Super League.^[19] He was their head coach until 15 May 2017 as he was offered a new job as Malaysia national football team head coach.

Malaysia

On 15 May 2017, Vingada was officially announced as the new head coach of Malaysia national football team with a difficult task to revive Malaysian football.^[20] He also took his trusted partner Francisco Jose Bruto da Costa as his deputy.^[21] His first match was in the 2019 Asian Cup qualifiers against Lebanon, which ended in a 1–2 defeat. His second match was in the friendly match against Syria national football team, which ended in a 1–2 defeat at Hang Jebat Stadium Melaka.

Vingada stepped down as head coach of Malaysia on 6 December 2017 by mutual consent with Football Association of Malaysia, after not winning any of his seven games in charge, and failure to qualify to the 2019 AFC Asian Cup.^[22]^[23]

Return to Iran

On 11 January 2019, Vingada rejoined the coaching staff of Iran national football team, who are participating in the 2019 AFC Asian Cup, and reunite with Queiroz.^[24]

Kerala Blasters FC

On 18 January 2019, it was announced that Vingada would be the new head coach of Kerala Blasters FC in the Indian Super League after the club sacked David James due to poor performances.^[25] With a win percent of less than 15, he too was sacked by the club at the end of the 2018–19 Indian Super League season.

Return to Egypt

In 2020, Vingada became the technical director of the Egyptian national team, a position he held until April 2022, following the dismissal of head coach Carlos Queiroz.^[26]

Managerial statistics

As of 23 May 2019

Team	Nat	From	To	Record
Team	Nat	From	To	G	W	D	L	GF	GA	+/-	Win %
Portugal		December 1993	April 1994	2	0	2	0	2	2	+0	000.00
Portugal U-20		April 1994	May 1995	6	5	0	1	12	6	+6	083.33
Portugal (Olympic)		May 1995	August 1996	14	8	4	2	20	12	+8	057.14
Saudi Arabia		October 1996	September 1997	24	17	5	2	55	17	+38	070.83
Marítimo		June 1999	July 2003	136	55	28	53	160	156	+4	040.44
Zamalek		July 2003	July 2004	27	21	6	0	59	16	+43	077.78
Egypt (Olympic)		July 2004	January 2005	2	1	0	1	4	2	+2	050.00
Académica de Coimbra		January 2005	May 2006	34	10	9	15	37	48	−11	029.41
Wydad Casablanca		April 2007	July 2007	8	3	4	1	11	4	+7	037.50
Jordan		May 2007	February 2009	31	11	7	13	39	33	+6	035.48
Persepolis		February 2009	June 2009	9	3	3	3	9	9	+0	033.33
Vitória de Guimarães		June 2009	October 2009	7	1	2	4	6	8	−2	014.29
FC Seoul		December 2009	December 2010	37	25	6	6	79	35	+44	067.57
Dalian Shide		July 2011	November 2012	30	8	10	12	39	49	−10	026.67
Iran (Olympic)		March 2014	November 2014	6	0	5	1	5	8	−3	000.00
Marítimo		January 2016	June 2016	14	5	3	6	19	20	−1	035.71
NorthEast United		23 July 2016	15 May 2017	14	5	3	6	14	14	+0	035.71
Malaysia		15 May 2017	6 December 2017	7	0	1	6	6	16	−10	000.00
Kerala Blasters		18 January 2019	17 March 2019	7	1	3	3	6	9	−3	014.29
Total				390	173	94	123	561	425	+136	044.36