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. He was an IT engineer before taking up football coaching as a career.

Personal life

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

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 four 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

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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.

NorthEast United

In August 2022, Pinto moved to

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as an assistant to

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References

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