Nelo Vingada

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Personal information
Nelo Vingada
Full name	Eduardo Manuel Martinho Vingada
Date of birth	March 30, 1953 (1953-03-30) (age 55)
Place of birth	Serpa, Portugal
Playing position	(retired)
Club information
Current club	Jordan (manager)
Senior clubs¹
Years	Club	App (Gls)*
	Atlético Sintrense CF Belenenses	{{{caps(goals)}}}
Teams managed
1994-1997 1997-1998 1999-2003 2004 2004-2005 2005-2007 2007-present	Saudi Arabia SL Benfica Assistant Manager CS Marítimo El Zamalek Egypt Olympic team Académica de Coimbra Jordan
¹ Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. * Appearances (Goals)

Eduardo Manuel Martinho Vingada, OIH, commonly known by Nelo Vingada is a Portuguese football (soccer) manager, born in Serpa, Alentejo region, on 30 March 1953.

[edit] Player career

He played for CF Belenenses, Atlético and Sintrense.

[edit] Coach career

His first steps as a professional football coach were firstly in Belenenses, and then in Associação Académica de Coimbra - O.A.F., in 1982/1983 season, when he was assistant manager for Mário Wilson at Académica. Sintrense and Vilafranquense were his following teams. In 1986/1987 he signed for the youth team department of the Portuguese Football Federation along with Carlos Queiroz. He was the assistant coach for the Portuguese Squad in the Under-20 Football World Youth Championships of 1989 (Riyadh) and 1991 (Lisbon) with Carlos Queiroz as principal manager, both won by the Portuguese. Since 1994 to 1997, Nelo Vingada was the manager of Saudi Arabia national football team, winning the Asian Cup in 1996. In 1997/1998 season he was hired as assistant manager for SL Benfica, when Graeme Souness was contracted as principal manager. Between 1999 and 2003, Vingada was the manager of CS Marítimo, a Portuguese team from Madeira, and in 2004 was champion manager with Zamalek from Egypt. Since 2004/2005 season he is the manager of Académica de Coimbra. In 2005 he became the head coach of the Egyptian national olympic football team. The team failed to reach the Olympic Games which are being held in Beijing in 2008 and even though the Egyptian Football Association wanted Vingada to continue coaching the national team, he resigned. He signed with Moroccan club El-Wedad in the summer of 2007. Only six weeks after he had assumed the new position he surprisingly resigned as the new coach of El-Wedad. The reason was that he had been approached by the Jordan Football Association to replace the newly resigned Mahmoud El-Gohary. Vingada accepted the offer to coach the Jordanian national football team and signed a 16 month contract with the Jordanian Football Association. Vingada has taken on the mission to prepare the Jordanian team for the upcoming qualifications for the World Cup in 2010 which is being hosted by South Africa. The Asian World Cup Qualifiers will begin in October 2007 and will be finished in late 2009. Jordan has not played in a major event since the qualifiers for the 2007 Asian Cup. Preparations for the upcoming World Cup qualifiers are already underway and hopefully the Portuguese coach will once again show his A-game, just like he did with Saudi Arabia in 1996 and El Zamalek in 2004.