Paulo Jorge Rebelo Duarte

Paulo Duarte

Personal information
Full name	Paulo Jorge Rebelo Duarte
Date of birth	April 6, 1969 (1969-04-06)
Place of birth	Massarelos, Portugal
Height	1.82 m (6 ft 0 in)
Playing position	Centre back
Youth career
	Boavista
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps†	(Gls)†
1988–1989	Boavista
1989–1991	União Leiria	60	(6)
1991–1993	Salgueiros	42	(2)
1993–1995	Marítimo	42	(2)
1995–2004	União Leiria	155	(4)
Teams managed
2006–2007	União Leiria
2008–2012	Burkina Faso
2009	Le Mans
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. † Appearances (Goals).

Paulo Jorge Rebelo Duarte (born 6 April 1969) is a retired Portuguese footballer who played as a central defender, and was the manager of the Burkinabé national team.

Playing career

Duarte was born in Massarelos, Porto District. After a brief unremarkable spell at local Boavista FC, he started professionally at União de Leiria, then in second division of Portuguese football.

Duarte then played two seasons apiece for S.C. Salgueiros and C.S. Marítimo, amassing more 84 top level matches, after which he returned to Leiria, where he retired after almost one decade (aged 34), and as first-choice in four of those seasons (in 2001–02, as the club qualified for the UEFA Intertoto Cup, he was managed by young José Mourinho).

Coaching career

After his retirement, Duarte immediately began his coaching career, staying with his last club Leiria as assistant. In the tenth round of 2006–07's top division, he was named coach of the first team, eventually helping it finish seventh.

In early 2008, Duarte left Leiria to take charge of Burkina Faso. On 2 June of the following year, however, he was signed by France's Le Mans Union Club 72, on a two-year contract, while still working with the national team.

On 8 December 2009, Duarte was fired by Le Mans, becoming the first Ligue 1 manager casualty in the 2009–10 season, but still was on the bench for Burkina Faso's 2010 Africa Cup of Nations campaign, exiting in the group stage after one draw and one loss (the team was in Togo's group).

On 17 February 2012, Burkina Faso's football federation has fired coach Paulo Duarte after the national team lost all three of its games at the Africa Cup of Nations. [[1]]

Player eligibility controversy

Duarte selected players to play for the Burkina Faso national team who he believed were eligible to play for the nation after they married Burkinabé women. Namibia complained about the fielding of Herve Xavier Zengue in two 2012 Africa Cup of Nations qualifying games, stating that the player was not eligible under FIFA's statutes.

Duarte also chose to play Zengue after the complaint was received by CAF, fielding him alongside Ghanaian-born Nii Plange in a 0–3 loss with South Africa in an August 2011 friendly.

External links

• Stats and profile at Zerozero
• Stats at ForaDeJogo (Portuguese)
• Coach stats at Fussballdaten (German)