Floyd Pinto

Floyd Pinto
Personal information
Full name Floyd Pinto
Place of birth Mumbai, India
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
– Mumbai University
– Kenkre F.C.
Teams managed
2017– India U20
2018− Indian Arrows
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only

Floyd Pinto is the head coach of India national under-20 football team,[1] which plays for the AFC U-19 Championship and SAFF U-19 Championship. He was an IT engineer before taking up football coaching as career.[2]

Personal life

Pinto grew up at Mumbai, India. He had his graduation in Information Technology from Don-Bosco Institute, Mumbai University at Kurla-Mumbai.[3]

Career

During his graduation at Don Bosco, when he was playing for Kenkre FC, the Institute administrator got him into part-time coach of Kenkre FC which at that time was part of Mumbai Elite Division and also for their team at I-League for around 4 years. He then graduated from Asian Football Confederation (AFC) with 'A' License in coaching from the May 2014 batch. He is one of youngest coach in the country holding AFC 'A' license.

In 2017, he joined Luís Norton de Matos as his deputy for the U-17 India National Team and as well as Indian Arrows later. Later on resignation of Matos as the coach of U-20 team and the India arrows in July 2018 he was unanimously appointed as the coach of India national under-20 football team and Indian Arrows[4]

References

  1. ↑ "I-League: India U-20 coach Pinto to take charge of Indian Arrows". TOI. Retrieved 31 August 2018.
  2. ↑ Arka Bhattacharya. "Football: From an IT engineer to Indian Arrows coach, Floyd Pinto's journey is one of a kind". Scroll.in. Retrieved 1 September 2018.
  3. ↑ Anselm Noronha. "India U-19's Floyd Pinto: The engineer who became one of India's foremost youth coaches". Goal.com. Retrieved 31 August 2018.
  4. ↑ "De Matos's assistant Floyd Pinto appointed coach of I-League side Indian Arrows". Scroll.in. Retrieved 31 August 2018.


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