Nuno Manta Santos

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Nuno Manta Santos
Personal information
Full name Nuno Miguel Manta Ribeiro Santos
Date of birth (1978-07-25) 25 July 1978 (age 44)
Place of birth Santa Maria da Feira, Portugal
Position(s) Midfielder
Team information
Current team
 Sport Clube União Torreense
Youth career
1993–1996 Sanfins
Senior career*
YearsTeamApps(Gls)
1996–2007 Amigos Cavaco
Managerial career
2010–2013 Feirense (assistant/youth)
2012 Feirense (caretaker)
2015–2016 Feirense (youth)
2016–2019 Feirense
2019 Marítimo
2019–2020 Aves
2021– Torreense
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Nuno Miguel Manta Ribeiro Santos, known as Nuno Manta or Nuno Manta Santos (born 25 July 1978) is a Portuguese football manager and a former player.

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Playing career

Born in Santa Maria da Feira, he was known as Melão in his playing career as a midfielder. He represented G.C.D. Sanfins as a youth, and hometown club Juventude Atlética “os Amigos do Cavaco” as a senior, never any higher than the second regional level.

Managerial career

Manta worked in the ranks of his hometown's primary team C.D. Feirense, and he was the caretaker manager for one Segunda Liga game on 30 September 2012. He was assistant to José Mota at the now Primeira Liga club, before taking the reins when the latter was sacked in December 2016. [1]

Feirense's fortunes improved under Manta, finishing in the top half in 8th place, and in his second season they just avoided relegation in 16th. [2] On 4 February 2019, he was dismissed from Feirense with the club in last place after a 2–0 loss at Boavista FC, in a season that ended with relegation. [3]

On 4 June 2019, Manta returned to the top flight, succeeding Petit at C.S. Marítimo. [2] In his first game on 11 August, his team held Sporting CP to a 1–1 draw in Madeira. [4] He resigned three months later, with the team in 14th and a record of three wins in 15 competitive games. [5]

Two days after leaving Marítimo, Manta was back in the top flight with bottom-placed C.D. Aves, on a deal until 2021. [6] His team were relegated at the end of June 2020, with five games left to play; [7] he was internally disciplined for using profanity to publicly describe the situation at the cash-strapped club. [8] He and his entire coaching staff resigned in August. [9]

In November 2021 he became the new coach of Sport Clube União Torreense, and at the same time achieved the club's unprecedented rise to the Portuguese second tier. [10] [11]

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References

  1. ↑ "Comunicado oficial" [Official communication] (in Portuguese). C.D. Feirense. 22 December 2016.
  2. 1 2 "Nuno Manta Santos é o novo treinador do Marítimo" [Nuno Manta Santos is the new manager of Marítimo]. Observador (in Portuguese). 4 June 2019. Retrieved 13 August 2019.
  3. ↑ "Nuno Manta Santos deixa de ser treinador do Feirense" [Nuno Manta Santos no longer manager of Feirense]. Diário de Notícias (in Portuguese). 4 February 2019. Retrieved 13 August 2019.
  4. ↑ "Nuno Manta: «Estávamos preparados para o Sporting»" [Nuno Manta: "We were prepared for Sporting"] (in Portuguese). TVI 24. 11 August 2019. Retrieved 13 August 2019.
  5. ↑ "Nuno Manta Santos já não é treinador do Marítimo" [Nuno Manta Santos is no longer the manager of Marítimo]. Público . 11 November 2019. Retrieved 17 December 2019.
  6. ↑ "Nuno Manta Santos é o novo treinador do Desportivo das Aves" [Nuno Manta Santos is the new manager of Desportivo das Aves]. Observador (in Portuguese). 13 November 2019. Retrieved 17 December 2019.
  7. ↑ "Desportivo das Aves despromovido após três épocas e uma Taça de Portugal" [Desportivo das Aves relegated after three seasons and a Taça de Portugal]. O Minho (in Portuguese). 29 June 2020. Retrieved 2 July 2020.
  8. ↑ "«O Aves é f***do»: o palavrão pelo qual Manta Santos pede desculpa" ["Aves are f***ed": Manta Santos asks forgiveness for swearing] (in Portuguese). Mais Futebol. 17 June 2020. Retrieved 21 October 2020.
  9. ↑ "Leandro Pires e restante equipa técnica também rescindem com o Aves" [Leandro Pires and the remaining coaching team also resign from Aves]. O Jogo (in Portuguese). 17 August 2020. Retrieved 21 October 2020.
  10. ↑ "NUNO MANTA SANTOS É O NOVO TREINADOR DA EQUIPA SÉNIOR Torreense". Torreense.com (in Portuguese). 29 November 2021.
  11. ↑ "Oficial: Nuno Manta Santos está de regresso ao ativo". www.ojogo.pt.
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