Floyd Pinto

Floyd Pinto Enginee is an Indian football coach. He was an IT engineer before taking up football coaching as career.[1]

Floyd Pinto Engineer
Personal information
Full name Floyd Pinto Engineer
Date of birth (1986-12-16) 16 December 1986
Place of birth Mumbai, India
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
– Mumbai University
– Kenkre F.C.
Teams managed
2017–2019 India U20
2018−2019 Indian Arrows
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only

Personal life

Pinto grew up at Mumbai, India. He had his graduation in Information Technology from Don-Bosco Institute, Mumbai University at Kurla-Mumbai.[2]

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[3] Due to poor performance by India U20 team for the AFC qualification, he was released by AIFF as the head coach of the U20 team and the Indian Arrows club team.

Statistics

Managerial statistics
As of 6 December 2019.
Team From To Record
G W D L Win %
Indian Arrows 2018 2019 20 6 6 8 030.00
Total 20 6 6 8 030.00

References
  1. 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.
  2. 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.
  3. "De Matos's assistant Floyd Pinto appointed coach of I-League side Indian Arrows". Scroll.in. Retrieved 31 August 2018.


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