Otto Glória

Otto Glória

Glória in 1969
Personal information
Full name	Otto Martins Glória
Date of birth	(1917-01-09)9 January 1917
Place of birth	Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Date of death	4 September 1986(1986-09-04) (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
1973–1977	Portuguesa
1977	Santos
1978–1979	Monterrey
1979	Vasco da Gama
1978–1981	Nigeria
1982–1983	Portugal
Medal record Men's football Representing  Portugal (as manager) FIFA World Cup 1966 Representing  Nigeria (as manager) Africa Cup of Nations Winner 1980

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

. 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

, which was lost 1–4.

At the

.

In 1979, he became with

, which remained undefeated throughout the competition.

In the year thereafter he guided Nigeria through the

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^[3]
• 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

• African Nations Cup: 1980

References

External links

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