20 Facts About Nelo Vingada

Eduardo Manuel "Nelo" Martinho Braganca de Vingada was born on 30 March 1953 and is a Portuguese football manager and former footballer.

Nelo Vingada 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.

Nelo Vingada was appointed as a head manager for Portugal U-20 and his team participated in 1995 World Youth Championship.

Between 1999 and 2003, Nelo Vingada was the manager of Maritimo, a Portuguese team from Madeira, and helped the team stay in the Portuguese Liga and qualify once to the Portuguese cup final.

Nelo Vingada 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.

In summer 2007, Nelo Vingada signed for Moroccan club Wydad Casablanca.

Nelo Vingada accepted the offer to manage Jordan national football team and signed a 16-month contract with the Jordan Football Association.

Nelo Vingada later took on the mission to prepare the Jordanian team for the 2010 FIFA World Cup qualification.

On 9 February 2009, Nelo Vingada was officially appointed as head manager of Iranian football side Persepolis.

Nelo Vingada officially became a manager of FC Seoul of South Korea in January 2010.

On 13 December 2010 FC Seoul offered a one-year contract extension but FC Seoul and Nelo Vingada did not agree on the salary conditions.

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

Nelo Vingada ended his second tenure with Maritimo on 23 May 2016 to pursue his career elsewhere.

Nelo Vingada was their head coach until 15 May 2017 as he was offered a new job as Malaysia national football team head coach.

On 15 May 2017, Nelo Vingada was officially announced as the new head coach of Malaysia national football team with a difficult task to revive Malaysian football.

Nelo Vingada took his trusted partner Francisco Jose Bruto da Costa as his deputy.

Nelo 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.

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

On 18 January 2019, it was announced that Nelo 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.

In 2020, Nelo 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.