Rui Manuel dos Santos Caçador (born 29 October 1953) is a Portuguese
football
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manager
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. He is without a club.
Rui Caçador has had many managed many clubs and national teams. He has had several roles in the national team, which include the
Portuguese under-20 team — managing them on three occasions — the
Portuguese under-21 team — managing them once — and assistant manager of
Portuguese senior team, in which he served on three occasions.
Caçador has also managed
Maxaquene,
Benfica's under-19,
Costa do Sol, and the
Mozambican national team. As the Portuguese under-20 team manager, he discovered the talents of many Portuguese football legends, which include
Rui Costa
Rui Manuel César Costa (; born 29 March 1972) is a Portuguese former professional footballer who is the 34th president of sports club S.L. Benfica. He also succeeded Luís Filipe Vieira as president of the club's SAD board of directors.
...
,
João Pinto
João Manuel Vieira Pinto (; born 19 August 1971) is a Portuguese retired professional footballer who played mostly as a forward.
Blessed with playmaking and goalscoring ability, he made his name mostly at a domestic level and as a key figu ...
,
Capucho, and
Luís Figo
Luís Filipe Madeira Caeiro Figo (; born 4 November 1972) is a Portuguese former professional footballer who played as a winger for Sporting CP, Barcelona, Real Madrid, and Inter Milan. He won 127 caps for the Portugal national team, a one-t ...
.
Honours
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Moçambola
Moçambola (or Campeonato Moçambicano de Futebol, Portuguese for Mozambican Football Championship) is the top division of Mozambican football. It is organized by the Liga Moçambicana de Futebol.
History
In 1976, shortly after the country's ...
— 1985
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Mozambican Cup — 1988
External links
Treinador Nacional - Rui Manuel dos Santos Caçador (29.10.1953 )at
Portuguese Football Federation
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1953 births
Living people
People from Viseu
Portuguese football managers
Mozambique national football team managers
Expatriate football managers in Mozambique
1996 African Cup of Nations managers
Sportspeople from Viseu District
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