Luís Castro (Portuguese footballer)

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Luís Castro
Personal information
Full nameLuís Manuel Ribeiro de Castro
Date of birth (1961-09-03) 3 September 1961 (age 57)
Place of birth Mondrões, Portugal
Playing position Right back
Club information
Current team
 Vitória Guimarães (coach)
Youth career
1976–1977 Vieirense
1977–1980 União Leiria
Senior career*
YearsTeamApps(Gls)
1980–1981 União Leiria 1 (0)
1981–1982 Vieirense
1982–1985 União Leiria
1985–1987 Vitória Guimarães 1 (0)
1987–1989 Elvas 58 (0)
1989–1990 Fafe 5 (0)
1990–1997 Águeda 147 (3)
Teams managed
1998–2000 Águeda
2000–2001 Mealhada
2001–2003 Estarreja
2003–2004 Sanjoanense
2004–2006 Penafiel
2013–2014 Porto B
2014 Porto
2014–2016 Porto B
2016–2017 Rio Ave
2017–2018 Chaves
2018– Vitória Guimarães
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only

Luís Manuel Ribeiro de Castro (born 3 September 1961) is a Portuguese retired footballer who played as a right back, and is the manager of Vitória de Guimarães.

Association football Team field sport

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Manager (association football) Head coach of an association football team

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Vitória S.C. Portuguese association football club

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Early life / Personal

Castro was born in the village of Mondrões, in Vila Real. For much of his childhood and youth he suffered from a debilitating disease, [1] going on to major in physics at the University of Coimbra. [2]

Physics Study of the fundamental properties of matter and energy

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University of Coimbra public university in Coimbra, Portugal

The University of Coimbra is a Portuguese public university in Coimbra, Portugal. Established in 1290 in Lisbon, it went through a number of relocations until it was moved permanently to its current city in 1537, being one of the oldest universities in continuous operation in the world, the oldest university of Portugal, and one of the country's largest museums of higher education and research institutions.

Playing career

Castro spent most of his 17-year professional career in the lower leagues, representing U.D. Leiria, O Elvas CAD, AD Fafe and R.D. Águeda in the Segunda Liga and Vitória S.C. and Elvas in the Primeira Liga.

U.D. Leiria Portuguese association football team

União Desportiva de Leiria, commonly known as União de Leiria, is a Portuguese football club based in Leiria, central Portugal. Founded on 6 June 1966, it currently plays in the Campeonato de Portugal, holding home matches at Estádio Dr. Magalhães Pessoa, with a 24,000-seat capacity.

O Elvas Clube Alentejano de Desportos is a football club based in Portalegre, Alentejo. It was founded in 1947 when the team S.L. Elvas and S.C. Elvas fused. Sport Lisboa e Elvas and O Elvas C.A.D. spent several years in the Portuguese Liga, the main tier in the Portuguese football league system. Nowadays it plays in the Portalegre Regional Championships.

AD Fafe association football club

Associação Desportiva de Fafe is a Portuguese football club based in Fafe in the district of Braga in northern Portugal.

With the latter, he appeared in 28 matches in the 1987–88 season, but his team ranked in 15th place and suffered relegation. [3]

Statistics of Portuguese Liga in the 1987/1988 season.

Coaching career

One year after retiring from professional football, Castro began working as a manager with his final club Águeda, where he would remain for two seasons. He went on to be in charge of lowly G.D. Mealhada, C.D. Estarreja and A.D. Sanjoanense, before being appointed at F.C. Penafiel in the top level in summer 2004 [4] and guiding it to the 11th position in his debut campaign, [5] the highlight being a 1–0 home win against S.L. Benfica. [6]

A.D. Sanjoanense

Associação Desportiva Sanjoanense is a Portuguese football club based in São João da Madeira. Founded in 1924, it currently plays in the Campeonato de Portugal, holding home games at Estádio Conde Dias Garcia.

F.C. Penafiel Portuguese football club

Futebol Clube de Penafiel is a Portuguese football club founded on 8 February 1951 and based in the city of Penafiel.

The 2004–05 Primeira Liga was the 71st edition of top flight of Portuguese football. It started on 28 August 2004 with a match between Belenenses and Marítimo, and ended on 22 May 2005.

Following Penafiel's relegation in 2006, Castro left the club, joining FC Porto's youth academy and eventually coaching the B-team. [7] On 5 March 2014, following the resignation of Paulo Fonseca at the helm of the main squad, he was named an interim until the end of the season. [8]

The 2005–06 Primeira Liga was the 72nd edition of top flight of Portuguese football. It started on 19 August 2005 with a match between Sporting CP and Belenenses and ended on 7 May 2006. The league was contested by 18 clubs with Benfica as defending champions.

FC Porto association football club based in Porto, Portugal

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Castro continued working in the Portuguese top flight after leaving Porto's reserves in November 2016, with Rio Ave FC, [9] G.D. Chaves [10] and Vitória de Guimarães. [11]

Managerial statistics

As of 22 December 2015 [12] [13]
TeamNatFromToRecord
GWDLGFGAGDWin %
Sanjoanense Flag of Portugal.svg June 2003September 200442219126244+18050.00
Penafiel Flag of Portugal.svg 17 September 2004June 20067017134071114−43024.29
Porto B Flag of Portugal.svg July 20134 March 20143218683926+13056.25
Porto Flag of Portugal.svg 5 March 201410 May 2014169252518+7056.25
Porto B Flag of Portugal.svg 11 May 2014Present7636152512899+29047.37
Total238994792323308+15041.60

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References

  1. ↑ "Luís Castro: um homem da casa, mas não só" [Luís Castro: a man of the house, but not only that] (in Portuguese). Mais Futebol. 5 March 2014. Retrieved 8 March 2014.
  2. ↑ "Luís Castro: o que podem esperar dele" [Luís Castro: what can be expected of him] (in Portuguese). Mais Futebol. 6 March 2014. Retrieved 7 March 2014.
  3. ↑ "Época 1987/88: Primeira Divisão" [1987/88 season: First Division] (in Portuguese). Arquivos da Bola. 15 July 2007. Retrieved 21 July 2015.
  4. ↑ "Luís Castro sucede a Manuel Fernandes" [Luís Castro succeeds Manuel Fernandes]. Record (in Portuguese). 17 September 2004. Retrieved 7 March 2014.
  5. ↑ "SuperLiga 2004/2005". Zerozero. Retrieved 7 March 2014.
  6. ↑ "Penafiel-Benfica, 1–0. Não foi só aritmética, foi um golpe no sonho" [Penafiel-Benfica, 1–0. It was not only arithmetics, it was a blow to the dream]. Record (in Portuguese). 8 May 2005. Retrieved 28 December 2017.
  7. ↑ "Luís Castro vai treinar equipa" [Luís Castro is going to manage team]. Record (in Portuguese). 19 June 2013. Archived from the original on 8 March 2014. Retrieved 7 March 2014.
  8. ↑ "Porto sack coach Paulo Fonseca after nine months in charge". BBC Sport. 5 March 2014. Retrieved 7 March 2014.
  9. ↑ "Luís Castro no Rio Ave: "Obra no FC Porto estava feita"" [Luís Castro in Rio Ave: "Work in FC Porto was done"]. O Jogo (in Portuguese). 14 November 2016. Retrieved 21 May 2018.
  10. ↑ "Luís Castro é o novo treinador do Chaves" [Luís Castro is the new manager of Chaves]. Record (in Portuguese). 1 June 2017. Retrieved 21 May 2018.
  11. ↑ "Luís Castro assina por dois anos pelo Vitória de Guimarães" [Luís Castro signs for two years with Vitória de Guimarães] (in Portuguese). Mais Futebol. 20 May 2018. Retrieved 21 May 2018.
  12. ↑ "Luís Castro". Zerozero. Retrieved 13 December 2018.
  13. ↑ Luís Castro coach profile at Soccerway
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