Otto Glória
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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 | ||||||||||||||||
1973–1975 | Portuguesa | ||||||||||||||||
1977 | Santos | ||||||||||||||||
1978–1979 | Monterrey | ||||||||||||||||
1979 | Vasco da Gama | ||||||||||||||||
1978–1981 | Nigeria | ||||||||||||||||
1982–1983 | Portugal | ||||||||||||||||
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Otto Martins Glória (9 January 1917 – 4 September 1986) was a Brazilian football coach.
Career
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, and the Olympic Football Tournament 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 honours
Club
Benfica
- Primeira Liga: 1954–55, 1956–57, 1967–68, 1968–69[2]
- 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
Portugal
- FIFA World Cup: Third place 1966
Nigeria
References
- ^ 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.
- ^ "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
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- Otto Glória manager stats at ForaDeJogo (archived)
- Sportspeople from Rio de Janeiro (city)
- 1917 births
- 1986 deaths
- Brazilian football managers
- Brazilian expatriate football managers
- Expatriate football managers in France
- Expatriate football managers in Portugal
- Expatriate football managers in Spain
- Campeonato Brasileiro Série A managers
- La Liga managers
- 1966 FIFA World Cup managers
- CR Vasco da Gama managers
- S.L. Benfica managers
- C.F. Os Belenenses managers
- Sporting CP managers
- Olympique de Marseille managers
- FC Porto managers
- Portugal national football team managers
- Atlético Madrid managers
- Grêmio Foot-Ball Porto Alegrense managers
- Associação Portuguesa de Desportos managers
- Santos FC managers
- C.F. Monterrey managers
- Nigeria national football team managers
- 1980 African Cup of Nations managers
- 1982 African Cup of Nations managers