Joaquim Lucas Duro de Jesus (born 6 November 1948), known as Quinito, is a Portuguese former

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and

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Playing career

Born in

Setúbal Setúbal (, , ; cel-x-proto, Caetobrix) is a city and a municipality in Portugal. The population in 2014 was 118,166, occupying an area of . The city itself had 89,303 inhabitants in 2001. It lies within the Lisbon metropolitan area. In the ti ...

, Quinito played in exactly ten

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seasons during his professional career, making his debut in 1967–68 with Académica de Coimbra – having moved to

Coimbra Coimbra (, also , , or ) is a city and a municipality in Portugal. The population of the municipality at the 2011 census was 143,397, in an area of . The fourth-largest urban area in Portugal after Lisbon, Porto Metropolitan Area, Porto, and Bra ...

to study

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at the

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Quinito
Glórias do Passado, 17 December 2007 (in Portuguese)– but he only appeared in eight league matches over two full seasons. He also represented

C.F. Os Belenenses Clube de Futebol Os Belenenses, commonly known as Os Belenenses (), is a Portuguese sports club best known for its football team. Founded in 1919, it is one of the oldest Portuguese sports clubs. It is based in the 25,000-seat Estádio do Rest ...

(six years) and

S.C. Braga Sporting Clube de Braga () (), commonly known as Sporting de Braga or just Braga, is a Portuguese sports club from the city of Braga. It is best known for the professional football team playing in the Primeira Liga, the top flight of Portuguese ...

(two), retiring in 1980 at nearly 31 with top-division totals of 193 games and 11 goals. Between his second and fourth clubs, Quinito played with

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, spending three seasons in

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. On 28 November 1976, he scored twice in a 4–3 home win against

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Coaching career

One year after retiring, Quinito started coaching with his last club Braga, being dismissed after the 13th round of the 1981–82 season. Until the end of the decade he worked exclusively in his country's top flight, reaching the fourth position in 1984 with precisely the Minho side. Quinito started the 1988–89 campaign at the helm of

FC Porto Futebol Clube do Porto, MHIH, OM (), commonly known as FC Porto or simply Porto, is a Portuguese professional sports club based in Porto. It is best known for the professional football team playing in the Primeira Liga, the top flight of Portu ...

. Even though the team collected no losses in the first 11 matches they only won five, and he was relieved of his duties as the northerners eventually lost the title race to

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. The manager also spent three seasons in the second tier, notably achieving promotion in 1996 with his first club as a player,

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. After the ninth round of 1997–98, Quinito replaced fired

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and led

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to the third position, with the subsequent

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to the

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. It was his second spell at the '' Estádio D. Afonso Henriques'', following the fourth place of 1995. Between 2008 and 2010, Quinito was an assistant coach of

José Couceiro José Júlio de Carvalho Peyroteo Martins Couceiro (born 4 October 1962) is a Portuguese football manager, currently the national technical director of the Portuguese Football Federation. Managerial career As a manager, Couceiro's career is marke ...

Gaziantepspor Gaziantepspor was a Turkish football club located in the city of Gaziantep. Formed in 1969 and dissolved in 2020, Gaziantepspor were nicknamed the ''Şahinler'' (The Falcons). The club colours were black and red, and they played their home matche ...

from

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.Quinito com Couceiro na Turquia (Quinito with Couceiro in Turkey)

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, 17 April 2009 (in Portuguese) Also in that decade, he worked as a

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at Vitória Setúbal for four years.

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* * * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Quinito 1948 births Living people Footballers from Setúbal Portuguese men's footballers Men's association football midfielders Primeira Liga players Académica de Coimbra (football) players C.F. Os Belenenses players S.C. Braga players La Liga players Racing de Santander players Portugal men's under-21 international footballers Portuguese expatriate men's footballers Expatriate men's footballers in Spain Portuguese expatriate sportspeople in Spain Portuguese football managers Primeira Liga managers Liga Portugal 2 managers S.C. Braga managers Rio Ave F.C. managers FC Porto managers C.S. Marítimo managers Portimonense S.C. managers U.D. Leiria managers Vitória F.C. managers Vitória S.C. managers C.F. Os Belenenses managers C.F. Estrela da Amadora managers Kuwait Premier League managers Al-Yarmouk SC (Kuwait) managers Portuguese expatriate football managers Expatriate football managers in Kuwait Portuguese expatriate sportspeople in Kuwait Portuguese expatriate sportspeople in Turkey