Otto Glória

Otto Glória
	Glória in 1969
Personal information
Full name	Otto Martins Glória
Date of birth	9 January 1917
Place of birth	Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Date of death	4 September 1986 (aged 69)
Managerial career
Years	Team
1951	Vasco da Gama
1954–1959	Benfica
1959–1961	Belenenses
1961	Sporting
1962	Marseille
1963	Vasco da Gama
1964–1965	Porto
1965–1966	Sporting
1964–1966	Portugal
1966–1968	Atlético Madrid
1968–1970	Benfica
1971–1972	Grêmio
1973–1977	Portuguesa
1977	Santos
1978–1979	Monterrey
1979	Vasco da Gama
1978–1981	Nigeria
1982–1983	Portugal
Medal record
Men's football
Representing Portugal (as manager)
FIFA World Cup
Representing Nigeria (as manager)
Africa Cup of Nations

Otto Martins Glória (9 January 1917 – 4 September 1986) was a Brazilian football coach.

Career[edit]

Glória was born in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, but had his greatest successes with Benfica in Portugal, guiding the club to nine national trophies. With the Nigeria national team he won the 1980 African Cup of Nations.

In his first period with Benfica, the club was transformed to professional standards.^[1] Supported by president Joaquim Ferreira Bogalho, Glória founded a home for the players and focused on recruiting players from the periphery of the Portuguese capital and also from the African overseas provinces. In these years between 1954 and 1959 the club won two leagues and three Portuguese Cup.

In February 1962 he took on the reins of Olympique Marseille. The club was then stuck in the second division and saw its aspirations to return to the first division endangered. In his four months with the club he did not lose a single match and achieved its objective.

In his second tenure with Benfica he had continuous success on the national level, winning two more championships and cups. He also led the club into the 1968 final of the European Cup of Champions in London against Manchester United, which was lost 1–4.

At the 1966 FIFA World Cup in England he led the Portugal national team, with Eusébio, who became the tournament's top scorer, to the third place. In the process Portugal inflicted a 1–3 defeat on Glória's home country Brazil. The official head coach of the Portuguese team was then Manuel da Luz Afonso.

In 1979, he became with CR Vasco da Gama of Rio de Janeiro runner-up in the Brazilian championship, losing in the final 1–2 against SC Internacional Porto Alegre, which remained undefeated throughout the competition.

In the year thereafter he guided Nigeria through the 1980 African Nations Cup, which the team won in the final in Lagos with 3–0 against Algeria,^[2] and the Olympics in 1980 in Moscow. He left this position after poor performances at the 1982 campaign in Libya.

Glória coached Portugal, in 1982, in qualifying matches for UEFA Euro 1984, but resigned after a 0–4 defeat in a friendly match with Brazil, the following year.

Managerial statistics[edit]

As of match played 31 March 2024

Managerial record by team and tenure
Team	Nat	From	To	Record
Team	Nat	From	To	G	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Win %
Vasco da Gama		1 August 1951	7 January 1952	30	14	5	11	64	49	+15	046.67
S.L. Benfica		1 August 1954	14 June 1959	169	113	30	26	447	163	+284	066.86
C.F. Os Belenenses		30 June 1959	4 April 1961	62	40	9	13	135	60	+75	064.52
Sporting CP		4 April 1961	24 September 1961	12	7	4	1	32	14	+18	058.33
Olympique de Marseille		25 January 1962	1 July 1962	14	8	4	2	25	9	+16	057.14
Vasco da Gama		16 June 1963	17 November 1963	20	9	5	6	33	21	+12	045.00
FC Porto		17 November 1963	9 May 1965	61	38	13	10	118	62	+56	062.30
Portugal		15 November 1964	13 November 1966	20	15	2	3	41	16	+25	075.00
Sporting CP		1 September 1965	30 June 1966	40	25	9	6	91	34	+57	062.50
Atlético Madrid		10 August 1966	18 March 1968	100	47	26	27	126	74	+52	047.00
S.L. Benfica		8 April 1968	8 February 1970	75	45	16	14	170	65	+105	060.00
Grêmio		1 January 1971	31 December 1972	109	59	29	21	146	79	+67	054.13
Portuguesa		1 January 1973	12 October 1977	220	83	85	52	274	203	+71	037.73
Santos		14 October 1977	1 December 1977	18	5	6	7	21	22	−1	027.78
Nigeria		20 March 1978	5 October 1981	26	12	9	5	34	21	+13	046.15
Monterrey		30 June 1978	30 June 1979	44	15	16	13	60	51	+9	034.09
Vasco da Gama		30 June 1979	30 December 1979	42	25	8	9	88	34	+54	059.52
Portugal		22 September 1982	8 June 1983	7	3	1	3	5	13	−8	042.86
Career total				1,049	543	277	229	1,795	930	+865	051.76

Managerial honours[edit]

Club[edit]

Benfica

Primeira Liga: 1954–55, 1956–57, 1967–68, 1968–69^[3]
Taça de Portugal: 1954–55, 1956–57, 1968–69

Sporting CP

Primeira Liga: 1961–62, 1965–66

Belenenses

Taça de Portugal: 1959–60

Portuguesa

Campeonato Paulista: 1973

International[edit]

Portugal

FIFA World Cup: Third place 1966

Nigeria

African Nations Cup: 1980

References[edit]

^ Pereira, Luís Miguel (November 2009). Bíblia do Benfica [Benfica Bible] (in Portuguese) (7th ed.). Portugal: Prime Books. p. 120. ISBN 978-989-655-005-9.
^ "How Pele's visit reshaped Nigerian football" – via www.bbc.co.uk.
^ "O "bi" inédito, o "top" português e as outras marcas de JJ" [The unprecedented "bi", the Portuguese "top" and other JJ's records] (in Portuguese). Maisfutebol. 18 May 2015. Retrieved 22 May 2015.

External links[edit]

Otto Glória manager stats at ForaDeJogo (archived)

[1] Pereira, Luís Miguel (November 2009). Bíblia do Benfica [Benfica Bible] (in Portuguese) (7th ed.). Portugal: Prime Books. p. 120. ISBN 978-989-655-005-9.

[2] "How Pele's visit reshaped Nigerian football" – via www.bbc.co.uk.

[3] "O "bi" inédito, o "top" português e as outras marcas de JJ" [The unprecedented "bi", the Portuguese "top" and other JJ's records] (in Portuguese). Maisfutebol. 18 May 2015. Retrieved 22 May 2015.

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