Nandinho (footballer, born 1973)

Fernando Manuel de Jesus Santos (born 17 March 1973), known as Nandinho, is a Portuguese retired footballer who played as a right winger, and is the current manager of Spanish club UD Almería B.

Nandinho
Personal information
Full name Fernando Manuel de Jesus Santos
Date of birth (1973-03-17) 17 March 1973
Place of birth Porto, Portugal
Height 1.80 m (5 ft 11 in)
Position(s) Winger
Club information
Current team
 Almería B (coach)
Youth career
1984–1985 Vitória Porto
1985–1986 Lapa
1987–1991 Candal
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1991–1992 Candal
1992–1994 Ataense
1994–1995 Castêlo Maia
1995–1998 Salgueiros 89 (21)
1998–1999 Benfica 4 (1)
1999 → Alverca (loan) 17 (5)
1999–2002 Vitória Guimarães 43 (0)
2002–2006 Gil Vicente 114 (13)
2007 Leixões 8 (0)
Total 275 (40)
National team
1996 Portugal U21 3 (0)
Teams managed
2012–2015 Gil Vicente (youth)
2015–2016 Gil Vicente
2016–2017 Famalicão
2018–2019 Gil Vicente
2019–2020 Almería B
2020 Almería (assistant)
2020– Almería B
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only

He amassed Primeira Liga totals of 257 matches and 41 goals over 11 seasons, representing mainly in the competition Gil Vicente (four years).

Playing career

Born in Porto, Nandinho played amateur football until the age of 22, signing with Primeira Liga club S.C. Salgueiros in 1995 from SC Castêlo da Maia. He scored a career-best 13 goals in 30 games in his third season, helping his team to the eighth position.

Subsequently, Nandinho signed for S.L. Benfica – against which he had previously scored – as Graeme Souness was the manager. As several British players were brought in, he was eventually deemed surplus to requirements, finishing his debut campaign with farm team F.C. Alverca, where he netted a hat-trick in a 3–2 home win against Sporting CP on 17 April 1999.[1]

Nandinho joined Vitória S.C. in summer 1999, being rarely played by Paulo Autuori but featuring more under new coach Álvaro Magalhães.[2] He retired in June 2007 at 34, after spells with Gil Vicente F.C. in the top flight[3] and Leixões S.C. in the second level.[4]

Coaching career

On 28 May 2015, after several years in charge of the youth sides, Nandinho was chosen as José Mota's successor at the helm of Gil's first team, recently relegated from the top division.[5] He left the post on 11 May of the following year,[6] taking over at F.C. Famalicão on 17 October.[7]

Nandinho resigned on 2 April 2017, with the club near the relegation places in the second tier.[8] He returned to Gil Vicente in the 2018 off-season,[9] achieving promotion without playing and being relieved of his duties.[10]

Nandinho first moved abroad on 16 October 2019, replacing the dismissed Esteban Navarro at UD Almería B.[11] The following 26 June, he was named assistant manager of the first team until the end of the season, with Mário Silva becoming the head coach,[12] but returned to his previous role on 27 July as Silva was dismissed.[13]

Managerial statistics
As of match played 1 July 2020
Managerial record by team and tenure
Team Nat From To Record Ref
G W D L GF GA GD Win %
Gil Vicente 28 May 2015 15 May 2016 54 20 16 18 71 68 +3 037.04 [14]
Famalicão 17 October 2016 2 April 2017 24 8 7 9 25 25 +0 033.33 [15]
Gil Vicente 28 June 2018 13 May 2019 36 23 4 9 66 31 +35 063.89 [16]
Almería B 16 October 2019 26 June 2020 21 12 7 2 46 18 +28 057.14 [17]
Career Total 135 63 34 38 208 142 +66 046.67 —

References
  1. "Gil Vicente: Nandinho e as memórias de um hat-trick embaraçoso para o Sporting" [Gil Vicente: Nandinho and memories of embarrassing hat-trick for Sporting] (in Portuguese). Mais Futebol. 20 January 2005. Retrieved 24 September 2014.
  2. "A nova vida de Nandinho em Guimarães" [The new life of Nandinho in Guimarães] (in Portuguese). Mais Futebol. 21 November 2000. Retrieved 24 September 2014.
  3. "Gil Vicente-Benfica, 1–3: Vitória do fato-macaco" [Gil Vicente-Benfica, 1–3: Boilersuit win]. Record (in Portuguese). 21 January 2006. Retrieved 15 April 2020.
  4. "Nandinho é novo treinador do Famalicão" [Nandinho is the new manager of Famalicão] (in Portuguese). Rádio e Televisão de Portugal. 17 October 2016. Retrieved 21 June 2018.
  5. "Nandinho é o novo técnico" [Nandinho is the new manager]. Record (in Portuguese). 28 May 2015. Archived from the original on 11 June 2015. Retrieved 11 June 2015.
  6. "Nandinho abandona comando do Gil Vicente" [Nandinho no longer at the helm of Gil Vicente]. Correio da Manhã (in Portuguese). 11 May 2016. Retrieved 21 October 2019.
  7. "Nandinho é o novo treinador" [Nandinho is the new manager]. Record (in Portuguese). 17 October 2016. Retrieved 21 October 2019.
  8. "Nandinho deixa o comando da equipa de futebol" [Nandinho no longer in charge of football team] (in Portuguese). F.C. Famalicão. 2 April 2017. Archived from the original on 8 April 2017. Retrieved 21 October 2019.
  9. "Nandinho regressa ao Gil Vicente e terá a I Liga à vista" [Nandinho returns to Gil Vicente and will have I League on sight]. O Jogo (in Portuguese). 28 June 2018. Retrieved 21 October 2019.
  10. "Nandinho sente-se atraiçoado" [Nandinho feels betrayed]. A Bola (in Portuguese). 27 May 2019. Retrieved 21 October 2019.
  11. "Fernando Santos, 'Nandinho', sustituye a Esteban Navarro en el Almería B" [Fernando Santos, 'Nandinho', replaces Esteban Navarro at Almería B] (in Spanish). UD Almería B. 16 October 2019. Retrieved 21 October 2019.
  12. "Mario Silva y Nandinho, los nuevos técnicos del Almería para intentar el ascenso" [Mario Silva and Nandinho, the new managers of Almería to try to achieve promotion]. Marca (in Spanish). 26 June 2020. Retrieved 27 June 2020.
  13. "Mario Silva stops training UD Almería after reaching an agreement with the club". UD Almería. 27 July 2020. Retrieved 29 July 2020.
  14. "Gil Vicente FC: Matches". Soccerway. Retrieved 20 December 2019.
  15. "FC Famalicão: Matches". Soccerway. Retrieved 20 December 2019.
  16. "Gil Vicente FC: Matches". Soccerway. Retrieved 20 December 2019.
  17. "Almería B" (in Spanish). Resultados Fútbol. Retrieved 20 December 2019.
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