Miguel Cardoso (football coach)

Miguel Cardoso
Personal information
Full name José Miguel Azevedo Cardoso
Date of birth (1972-05-28) 28 May 1972
Place of birth Trofa, Portugal
Club information
Current team
 Nantes (manager)
Teams managed
Years Team
2004–2006 Belenenses (assistant)
2006–2007 Braga (assistant)
2007–2009 Académica (assistant)
2009–2011 Braga (assistant)
2011–2012 Sporting CP (assistant)
2012–2013 Deportivo La Coruña (assistant)
2013–2016 Shakhtar Donetsk U21
2016–2017 Shakhtar Donetsk (assistant)
2017–2018 Rio Ave
2018 Nantes

José Miguel Azevedo Cardoso, (born 28 May 1972), known as Miguel Cardoso, is a Portuguese football coach and was most recently manager of FC Nantes. Miguel Cardoso graduated in Physical Education and Sports with specialization in football in 1995 and concluded a Masters in Sports Science in 1998 in the College of Sports Science and Physical Education in Oporto University, Portugal.[1]

Miguel Cardoso worked alongside coaches such as Jorge Costa, Domingos Paciência, Carlos Carvalhal and Paulo Fonseca, before becoming head coach at Rio Ave.[2]

Career

Cardoso started his coaching career in the youth teams of FC Porto while also teaching Physical Education in a school near his hometown of Trofa, in the suburbs of Oporto.

During his 9 years at FC Porto, Cardoso coached almost all age groups and was for 4 years in the club’s 2nd team as fitness and assistant coach.[3]

Cardoso’s breakthrough into the professional leagues came in the 2004/2005 season with the historic Portuguese club CF "Os Belenenses", as the assistant coach. For the following 10 years as an assistant coach at high level football, Cardoso enriched his career and further developed his views on football coaching and preparation while working at SC Braga, Académica de Coimbra, again SC Braga, Sporting CP and Deportivo La Coruña, in Spain.

At SC Braga, Cardoso helped the club achieve its highest sporting honours with the 2nd place finish in the Portuguese League in the 2009/2010 season and as finalists of Europa League in the following season, after participating for the 1st time in the UEFA Champions’ League group stage.

In April 2013, Cardoso accepted the invitation of FC Shakhtar Donetsk to join the club and take the lead role of the technical coordination of its professional academy and also to be the head coach of its U21 team – this moment marked a new step in Cardoso’s career but also a new moment for the club’s academy.[4]

Cardoso, who, besides his native Portuguese, is fluent in English, French and Spanish, had the opportunity to add one more language to his linguistic roster and thus enriching his coaching linguistics as well.

Under Cardoso’s technical leadership, FC Shakhtar Donetsk Professional Academy entered a new age of successes expressed most notably by reaching the final of UEFA Youth Champions League in the 2014/2015 season.

In the beginning of the 2016/2017 season Cardoso became assistant coach in Shakhtar’s 1st Team, working with the head coach Paulo Fonseca and went on to become Champion of Ukraine and winner of Ukrainian Cup.

On 12 June 2017, Cardoso was appointed to replace Luís Castro at the helm of Primeira Liga club Rio Ave F.C..[5]

Cardoso was awarded the "Manager of the Month" award in August 2017 by the Liga NOS.[6]

In the 2017/2018 season, Cardoso lead Rio Ave to a 5th place finish in the "Liga NOS" and Europa League Qualification in his first spell as Head Coach in professional football which brings even more value to a feat that had only happened once before in the club’s history. Under Cardoso this feat was accompanied by a club record breaking 51 points at the expense of high quality football recognized and laureled from early on and consistently displayed throughout the season.

On 13 June 2018 Cardoso was appointed as manager of French Ligue 1 side FC Nantes, but was sacked just four months later on 1 October 2018.[7]

References

  1. ↑ "Miguel Cardoso, o perfecionista preparado na elite do Dragão". Diário de Notícias. Retrieved 2018-06-06.
  2. ↑ Renascença. "Renascença - A par com o mundo". Retrieved 2018-06-06.
  3. ↑ Renascença. ""FC Porto contratou um profissional de excelência" - Renascença". rr.sapo.pt. Retrieved 2018-06-06.
  4. ↑ "SoccerWire.com Q&A: Shakhtar Donetsk U-21 coach Miguel Cardoso on bridging academy, first team gap". Soccer Wire. Retrieved 2018-06-06.
  5. ↑ "Welcome Miguel Cardoso". Rio Ave F.C. 12 June 2017. Retrieved 15 June 2017.
  6. ↑ "Vencedores dos Prémios mensais da Liga Portugal 2017-18". Liga Portugal. Retrieved 2018-06-06.
  7. ↑ "Nantes : Le nouveau coach officialisé" (in French). foot-national.com. 13 June 2018. Retrieved 14 June 2018.
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