Carlos Secretário

Carlos Alberto de Oliveira Secretário (born 12 May 1970) is a Portuguese former professional footballer who played mainly as a right back, and most recently the manager of French club US Créteil-Lusitanos.

This name uses Portuguese naming customs: the first or maternal family name is De Oliveira and the second or paternal family name is Secretário.

Carlos Secretário
Personal information
Full name Carlos Alberto de Oliveira Secretário
Date of birth (1970-05-12) 12 May 1970
Place of birth São João da Madeira, Portugal
Height 1.75 m (5 ft 9 in)
Position(s) Right back
Youth career
1984–1985 Sanjoanense
1985–1986 Sporting CP
1986–1988 Porto
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1988–1989 Gil Vicente 29 (2)
1989–1991 Penafiel 64 (2)
1991–1992 Famalicão 31 (2)
1992–1993 Braga 31 (2)
1993–1996 Porto 86 (6)
1996–1997 Real Madrid 13 (0)
1998–2004 Porto 129 (0)
2004–2005 Maia 24 (0)
Total 407 (14)
National team
1992–1993 Portugal U21 7 (0)
1994–2001 Portugal 35 (1)
Teams managed
2007–2008 Maia
2008–2009 Lousada
2009 Arouca
2012–2013 Salgueiros 08
2015–2017 Lusitanos Saint-Maur
2017–2018 Cesarense
2018–2020 Créteil
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only

During his 17-year career, in which he appeared in 341 Primeira Liga games and scored 12 goals, he played for six clubs in his country including Porto, with which he won 15 major titles. He also briefly represented Real Madrid.[1]

Secretário played more than 30 times with the Portugal national team, representing the country in two European Championships. In 2007, he started working as a coach.

Club career

After making his professional debut with Gil Vicente F.C. in the second division, Secretário, who was born in São João da Madeira and started his career as a midfielder, moved to the Primeira Liga with F.C. Penafiel in 1989, then spent one additional season with fellow league team F.C. Famalicão. In 1992–93 he signed with S.C. Braga, where he spent another campaign.

In the summer of 1993, Secretário joined league club FC Porto, quickly establishing himself as an undisputed starter in defense or midfield – after João Pinto's retirement, he played almost exclusively as a right back – and helping the northerners to two leagues, one Cup and one Supercup in his first spell. He attracted attention from Real Madrid, which signed the player in July 1996, but he would encounter extreme difficulties in carving a starting niche with the Spanish club, which was aggravated with the January 1997 signing of Italian Christian Panucci;[2] in a bizarre incident in a game against Real Betis at the Santiago Bernabéu Stadium, a delay was caused by a rabbit presumably thrown into the fray from the terraces, and he was quick enough to catch it. "Secretário may or may be not a good player," said TV commentator Arsenio Iglesias at the time, "but he is indeed a great hunter."[3]

Secretário returned to Porto in January 1998 for six-and-a-half additional seasons, and would go on to conquer the UEFA Cup and the UEFA Champions League in back-to-back years, although he was now only backup to emergent Paulo Ferreira. On 14 March 2002, he was sent off during a 2–1 continental home win over Panathinaikos FC, receiving a three-match suspension.[4]

In June 2005, Secretário retired after one year with F.C. Maia (second level).

International career

Secretário earned 35 caps for Portugal, and played at the 1996 and 2000 European Championships. In both cases second-choice, he totalled three appearances.[5][6]

Carlos Secretário: International goals
GoalDateVenueOpponentScoreResultCompetition
13 June 1995Estádio das Antas, Porto, Portugal Latvia2–03–2Euro 1996 qualifying[7]

Managerial career

In 2007, two years after retiring, Secretário started his coaching career with Portuguese fourth-tier side F.C. Maia, the last club he had played for. He continued working in the lower leagues in the following seasons, also having a spell in French amateur football.[8]

On 1 June 2018, Secretário was appointed at Championnat National 2 club US Créteil-Lusitanos.[9] In his first season, with a team including compatriots and their diaspora on the pitch and in the backroom, he won promotion as champions with four games remaining.[10] He resigned in December 2020, citing health problems, and the desire to retire to Portugal.[11]

Honours

Club

Porto

Real Madrid

International

Portugal

Manager

Créteil

References
  1. Carlos Secretario, el Danilo de los noventa memoriasdelfutbol.com
  2. Secretario medita negociar su traspaso (Secretário thinks about negotiating his transfer); El Mundo, 11 January 1997 (in Spanish)
  3. They think it's all over … it is meow, as cat invades Anfield pitch; The Guardian, 7 February 2012
  4. Secretário gets three-match ban; UEFA, 14 March 2002
  5. Hodgson, Guy (1 June 1996). "The rising force in Europe counting on their foreign legion; CHAMPIONSHIP COUNTDOWN: No 9 Portugal". The Independent. Retrieved 27 April 2020.
  6. "Portugal progress as Group D winners". UEFA. 6 October 2003. Retrieved 21 September 2017.
  7. "Letónia-Portugal: Registo 100 por cento vitorioso" [Latvia-Portugal: 100 per cent victorious record] (in Portuguese). Diário de Notícias. 7 June 2017. Retrieved 25 March 2020.
  8. Carlos Secretário deixa comando técnico do Lusitanos Saint-Maur (Carlos Secretário no longer in charge of Lusitanos Saint-Maur); Mais Futebol, 22 May 2017 (in Portuguese)
  9. "Carlos Secrétario nouvel entraîneur de Créteil" [Carlos Secrétario new manager of Créteil] (in French). L'Équipe. 1 June 2018. Retrieved 4 February 2019.
  10. Rosa, Melo (22 April 2019). "Secretário sobe de divisão com o Créteil-Lusitanos" [Secretário rises a division with Créteil-Lusitanos] (in Portuguese). O Jogo. Retrieved 29 September 2019.
  11. "Créteil : Carlos Secretario explique les raisons de son départ" (in French). foot-national.com. 19 December 2020.
  12. Azevedo, Pedro (28 May 2019). "Secretário sagra-se campeão no Créteil e aspira a voos maiores" [Secretário crowned champion at Créteil and aspires to bigger things] (in Portuguese). Rádio Renascença. Retrieved 29 September 2019.
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