Bruno Miguel Fernandes Ribeiro (born 22 October 1975) is a Portuguese
football manager
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and former player who is now the head coach at
Campeonato de Portugal club
Moura.
A
midfielder
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with a powerful left-foot strike, he began his playing career with hometown club
Vitória Setúbal
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from 1994 to 1997, before he had a four-year spell in England with
Leeds United
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and
Sheffield United
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. He returned to Portugal to play for
União de Leiria
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,
Beira-Mar and
Santa Clara, before spending 2003 to 2010 back with Vitória Setúbal. He spent the majority of his career in the
Primeira Liga, though also spent time in the
second tier, and in the
English Football League
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and
Premier League
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. He made a total of 351 career appearances, scoring 21 goals. He won all of his honours with Vitória Setúbal, winning promotion out of the second tier in 1995–96 and 2003–04, winning the
Taça de Portugal
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in
2005, and
Taça da Liga in
2008
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, whilst picking up runners-up medals in the
Supertaça Cândido de Oliveira
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in
2005 and Taça de Portugal in
2006. He also won five caps for the
Portugal under-21 team in 1997.
He was promoted from youth coach to first team coach at Vitória Setúbal in 2011, and went on to have brief spells in charge at
Farense,
Moura,
Pinhalnovense, Vitória Setúbal (again),
Ludogorets Razgrad (Bulgaria), and
Académico de Viseu. He was appointed manager of English club
Port Vale
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in June 2016, where he worked for six months before tendering his resignation. He returned to Portugal and took charge at
Salgueiros for a two-month spell in April 2017. He was appointed
Cova da Piedade
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head coach in November 2017, leaving this post the following summer. He briefly took charge at Salgueiros in October 2018, before returning to another former club, Vitória Setúbal, to coach the juniors the following month. In January 2019 he emigrated to Angola to coach
Interclube, before returning to Portugal 11 months later as head coach at Olhanense. He was reappointed as Moura's head coach in September 2020.
Playing career
Bruno Miguel Fernandes Ribeiro was born in
Setúbal
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In the ti ...
, and progressed through the youth ranks at local
Primeira Divisão
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club
Vitória Setúbal
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to make the first team bench for the first time on 29 May 1994.
A left-sided midfielder with a powerful shot, he also possessed a quick temper and was liable to pick up yellow and red cards.
His first team debut came on 29 September 1994, when he came on as a 66th-minute substitute for Paulo Gomes in a 3–0 defeat to
Gil Vicente
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at the
Estádio Adelino Ribeiro Novo
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.
He scored his first goal for the club on 28 May 1995, in a 4–1 victory over
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, and ended the
1994–95 season with one goal in eleven appearances as the club suffered relegation.
He then scored two goals in nine games as they won promotion at the first attempt in
1995–96.
He played a further 21 top-flight matches in the
1996–97 campaign, where he was spotted by
Leeds United
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manager
George Graham
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, who had been scouting
Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink
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Born in Suriname, he and his family would later move to t ...
.
Ribeiro also won five caps for the
Portugal under-21 team.
Ribeiro was sold to English
Premier League
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club Leeds United for a fee of £500,000 in July 1997, making him a teammate of Hasselbaink, who also joined the club in the summer.
He scored his first goal for Leeds in his second appearance, a 3–1 victory over
Sheffield Wednesday
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at
Hillsborough, and went on to score a total of four goals in 35 games in the
1997–98 season.
However, he picked up an injury at the start of the
1998–99 season, and failed to win back his first team place under new manager
David O'Leary
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.
He left
Elland Road in October 1999, as he was sold on to
First Division side
Sheffield United
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for £500,000 in October 1999.
He made 22 appearances in the
1999–2000 season and eight appearances in the
2000–01 season, mostly as a substitute as he failed to secure a first team spot at
Bramall Lane.
He returned to Portugal on loan at
União de Leiria
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in January 2001.
He spent the
2001–02 season with
Beira-Mar, scoring one goal in 26 games.
He joined
Azores
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based club
Santa Clara for the
2002–03 campaign, scoring twice in 25 games as the club suffered relegation. He subsequently rejoined Vitória, with the club now playing in the
second division
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, and played 27 games (scoring one goal) as Vitória were promoted back into the top-flight after finishing in second-place in
2003–04. He remained a key first team player throughout the
2004–05,
2005–06 and
2006–07 campaigns, making 90 first team appearances across the three seasons. He helped the club to win the
Taça de Portugal
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in
2005, as they beat
Benfica 2–1 at the
Estádio Nacional
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. He also captained the club in the
2005 Supertaça Cândido de Oliveira
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, as Vitória lost 1–0 to Benfica; he was replaced by
Antonio Franja
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Club career
Franja been through football school NK Dinamo Zagreb. As a junior he signed with NK Croatia Zagreb (Dinamo ). He later wen ...
on 75 minutes. He then played in the
2006 Taça de Portugal Final, where they were beaten 1–0 by
Porto
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. He was unable to play in the
2006 Supertaça Cândido de Oliveira
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due to injury.
Ribeiro gradually lost his importance in the squad in the
2007–08 season, though he scored the 1–0 winner with a long-range effort against
Sporting CP
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on 24 February. He also played in
the final
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of the
Taça da Liga, as Vitória beat Sporting CP on penalties to lift the trophy; he was taken off for
Paulinho on 67 minutes. He was loaned out to
Chaves at the start of the
2009–10 season, however after
Manuel Fernandes was reinstated as Vitória's first team coach, Ribeiro returned to the squad in January 2010. He played seven games in the remainder of the
2009–10 campaign and helped the club to avoid relegation, before he announced his retirement in the summer.
Managerial career
Early career
In March 2011, Ribeiro succeeded
Manuel Fernandes as head coach at Vitória Setúbal, having previously coached the club's under-17 team. He was sacked following a 3–0 away defeat to
Braga
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on 13 February 2012 that placed the team last in the league; he later harshly criticized the board of directors. Vitória went on to avoid relegation at the end of the
2011–12 season under the stewardship of new manager
José Mota. In June 2012, Ribeiro was appointed as head coach at
Farense in the lower leagues. From March to November 2014 he worked with
Moura, also in the
third tier. He returned to Vitória Setúbal in January 2015, taking over from
Domingos Paciência
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, and managed to steer the club away from relegation at the end of the
2014–15 season despite only winning three of his 17 games in charge. He decided to leave the club at the expiry of his contract, stating that he was satisfied with his accomplishment.
Ludogorets and Académico de Viseu
In June 2015, he was appointed as head coach at Bulgarian
Parva Liga champions
Ludogorets Razgrad, and told the Bulgarian media: "
José Mourinho is like a brother of mine
ourinho was youth team coach at Vitória Setúbal in the 1990s.. it is possible that some
Chelsea
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players will join Ludogorets
n loan I'll talk with Mourinho and see what happens. Without doubt he is going to help us". However, Ludogorets recorded three losses in Ribeiro's first three matches, including
elimination from the
UEFA Champions League
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qualifying rounds and defeat in the
2015 Bulgarian Supercup, and he was sacked after less than two months in charge with the club claiming it was a "disciplinary sacking and unilateral termination of the contract" due to "his prolonged absence from the job despite a standing and binding contract". Ribeiro stated that the club signed players without his knowledge and the sporting director further eroded his authority by interfering in training sessions. Coach
Andy Smith later recalled how "mafia types with firework" tried to attack the pair of them in
Bulgaria
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. In February 2016, Ribeiro returned to Portugal and signed a contract at LigaPro side
Académico de Viseu to run until the end of the
2016–17 season. However, he resigned from the club on 10 March after failing to win any of his five matches in charges, citing dissatisfaction with the way the club was being run.
Port Vale
In June 2016, he was appointed manager of English
League One
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club
Port Vale
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on a three-year contract. He oversaw a complete overhaul of the playing staff, signing an influx of foreign talent including
Rigino Cicilia,
Anthony de Freitas,
Kjell Knops,
Calvin Mac-Intosch
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A former youth team player at Ajax, he tur ...
,
Quentin Pereira,
Kiko,
Carlos Saleiro,
Paulo Tavares,
Chris Mbamba,
Sébastien Amoros,
Miguel Santos, and
Gëzim Shalaj; as well as British players
Anton Forrester and
Jerome Thomas, Nathan Ferguson, and
Martin Paterson
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; with
Alex Jones
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and
Sam Hart
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also joining on loan. However it would be 20-year old centre-back
Nathan Smith who would prove to be the club's best player; Riberio handed him his debut on the opening day of the season, and Smith would retain his first-team place long after Riberio's departure. He appointed
Jak Alnwick
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He turned professional at Newcastle United in 2008, and went on to represent England at under-17 and under-18 levels. He s ...
,
Ben Purkiss
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and
Anthony Grant as joint-captains, and got off to a good start by winning his first six home games at
Vale Park
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The ground has seen its capacity go up and down, its peak being 42,000 in 1954 against Blackpool, although a club record 49, ...
. He was named as the ''Football League Paper's'' League One Manager of the Day after Vale defeated
Scunthorpe United 3–1 on 27 August. However they entered Christmas in 17th-place, leaving chairman
Norman Smurthwaite to declare that 'Plan B' had been triggered, meaning the signing of "seasoned, higher grade" players, whilst he admitted he felt "a little bit hoodwinked" as Ribeiro's friends in the game (José Mourinho,
Aitor Karanka
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Save for a brief spell in the United States at age 32, Karanka ...
, and
Carlos Carvalhal) had provided him with glowing references but had thus far failed to lend any of their players to the Vale. Ribeiro resigned as manager of Port Vale on 26 December, hours after witnessing his side lose 1–0 at home to
Walsall
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Walsall is th ...
. Assistant manager
Michael Brown took charge on a caretaker basis, but could not arrest the decline as the club went on to be relegated at the end of the
2016–17 season.
Return to Portugal
Ribeiro was appointed head coach at
Campeonato de Portugal club
Salgueiros on 6 April 2017 following the sacking of
Filipe Cândido. The contract was to cover only the final five games of the
2016–17 season. Salgueiros finished third in the North zone Promotion group, missing out on a place in the promotion play-offs on goal difference.
On 14 November 2017, Ribeiro was appointed as the new head coach at
Cova da Piedade
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, who were in the relegation places of the LigaPro after picking up only 13 points from their first 13 games. On 6 December, he led the team to a penalty shoot-out victory over top-flight
Marítimo following a 0–0 draw after extra-time in the Fifth Round of the Taça de Portugal at the
Estádio do Marítimo
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. The "Rapazes de Azul-Grená" ended the
2017–18 season in ninth-place and he was reported to have agreed a new one-year contract in May 2018. However he left the club the following month. On 7 October, he was appointed as manager of former club Salgueiros, now in the
Porto FA Elite Division (fourth tier), until the end of the 2017–18 season. He left this post after just two games when was appointed as head coach of the Vitória Setúbal junior team.
Interclube
In January 2019, Ribeiro signed an 18-month contract with Angolan
Girabola
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The league winner and runner-up qualify for the CAF Champions League.
Gira ...
side
Interclube. "Os Polícias" finished fifth at the end of the
2018–19 season.
Return to Portugal
On 31 December 2019, Riberio returned to Portuguese football as the new manager of Campeonato de Portugal side
Olhanense. The "Leões de Olhão" were top of Serie D when the
2019–20 season was ended prematurely due to the
COVID-19 pandemic in Portugal
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, with no clubs promoted from Serie D. On 8 September 2020, Ribeiro returned to manage Moura in the Campeonato de Portugal. Moura picked up just four points from 20 games as they were relegated in the
2020–21 campaign.
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Style of management
Ribeiro has stated that 90% of his training ground work is based on José Mourinho's ideas, using possession play, building from the back – instructing his players not to play long balls, and maintaining a fixed shape. He prefers to play with a 4–3–3 formation, utilising a lone striker. Andy Smith, Ribeiro's close friend and preferred coach, has said that Ribeiro is "class" and that "the coaching sessions, the way he prepares" means that "we have a plan A, B and C". Ribeiro prefers staff, such as Smith, to conduct media duties on his behalf. He likes to create a "family" feeling in the dressing room.
Career statistics
Playing statistics
Managerial statistics
Honours
as a Player
Vitória de Setúbal
* Segunda Divisão de Honra second-place promotion: 1995–96
* Segunda Liga second-place promotion: 2003–04
*Supertaça Cândido de Oliveira
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runner-up: 2005
*Taça de Portugal
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: 2005; runner-up 2006
* Taça da Liga: 2008
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as a Manager
Ludogorets
*Bulgarian Supercup
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runner-up: 2015
References
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1975 births
Living people
Sportspeople from Setúbal
Portuguese footballers
Portugal under-21 international footballers
Association football midfielders
Vitória F.C. players
Portuguese expatriate footballers
Expatriate footballers in England
Portuguese expatriate sportspeople in England
Leeds United F.C. players
Sheffield United F.C. players
U.D. Leiria players
S.C. Beira-Mar players
C.D. Santa Clara players
G.D. Chaves players
Primeira Liga players
Liga Portugal 2 players
Premier League players
English Football League players
Association football coaches
Portuguese football managers
Vitória F.C. managers
S.C. Farense managers
C.D. Pinhalnovense managers
Expatriate football managers in Bulgaria
PFC Ludogorets Razgrad managers
Académico de Viseu F.C. managers
Expatriate football managers in England
Port Vale F.C. managers
S.C. Salgueiros managers
Expatriate football managers in Angola
G.D. Interclube managers
S.C. Olhanense managers
Primeira Liga managers
English Football League managers