Caetano Infancio De Souza Pinho (born 18 September 1976) is a Indian professional

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. He is current manager of

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club

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Early life

Pinho was born in

Goa Goa () is a state on the southwestern coast of India within the Konkan region, geographically separated from the Deccan highlands by the Western Ghats. It is located between the Indian states of Maharashtra to the north and Karnataka to the ...

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. All his family members were lawyers by profession. He then went to Don Bosco High School and Dempo College of Commerce and Economics. He then became an employer for

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Coaching career

ONGC

In 1996, Pinho joined as the player of ONGC F.C. and went on to become the coach of ONGC in 2011 of the NFL 2nd Division. Before that he played for Salgaocar S.C.,

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and even the

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after graduating from SAI Sports Hostel, Goa. In 2010, Pinho became the asstt coach of the team going into the 2010–11 season of the

, their first ever. Unfortunately after one season with ONGC in the I-League, the club were relegated back into the

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and Pinho's job was on the line as ONGC were considering folding the club and even Pinho himself said "The club’s poor showing had not gone down well with the management, who it was believed were even considering the most extreme of repercussions. For a company which supports 16 different disciplines of sports around the country, they had after all pumped in the maximum amount of money into the football club's coffers." Luckily ONGC allowed the club to continue and next season, Pinho and ONGC were participating in the

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where they ended as champions in the

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Personal

Pinho is a spiritual person and likes to read books like the

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. He also likes to help less fortunate people. His favorite player is

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, favorite coach is Armando Colaco & Pep Guardiola and favorite club is

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Managerial statistics

References

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