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Sérgio Paulo Marceneiro da Conceição (; born 15 November 1974) is a Portuguese professional
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manager and former player who mostly played as a
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. He is the current
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of
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. Throughout his career, he played for ten teams in five countries. After gaining international recognition with Porto he switched to Italy, where he appeared for three clubs, winning domestic and European honours at
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. He amassed
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totals of 97 games and 13 goals over four seasons, adding 136 matches and 13 goals in
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. Having won 56
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for
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, Conceição represented the nation at
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and the
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, reaching the semi-finals of the former. In 2012, he started working as a manager, winning three league titles for Porto and the double in 2019–20 and 2021–22.


Playing career


Club

Born in
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, Conceição began his career playing for the youth teams of hometown's Associação Académica. He started professionally in the
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, consecutively for F.C. Penafiel,
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and F.C. Felgueiras, before moving to
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in 1996; two highly successful years with the latter saw his runs down the right flank, combined with a good goalscoring record, help it to back-to-back
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championships and a
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triumph. Conceição joined S.S. Lazio and played a significant part in their 1998–99 UEFA Cup Winners' Cup success, while also scoring five goals in 33 games in his first season in
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. He also helped the team to a ''Scudetto'', a
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(in a 1999–2000 conquest of the double) and the 1999 UEFA Super Cup. In July 2000, Conceição transferred to Parma A.C. as a makeweight in
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's transfer, along with
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. The following campaign, he was used in the same fashion in the transfer of
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, which saw him go to
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while Frey went in the other direction. After two seasons and a good number of starts, he would eventually leave Inter by mutual agreement and re-joined Lazio, leaving for former club Porto towards the end of 2003–04, again by mutual agreement, and adding his third Portuguese national championship. In summer 2004, Conceição signed for
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's
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on a one-year deal. He won the
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for best player of the year in his first season. However, in March 2006, he was banned for three years – the first 4.5 months of the ban taking effect immediately and the rest suspended– depending on good behaviour, for spitting on an opposing player and assaulting a referee. After the 2006–07 season, Conceição failed to win any silverware with Standard, finishing runner-up in 2005–06's
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and losing the 2007 final of the
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. He decided to move to
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and
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on an annual salary of €1.1 million but, quickly unsettled, left. In January 2008, after failed deals in Portugal, Conceição agreed to join
PAOK FC P.A.O.K. FC ( el, ΠΑΕ ΠΑΟΚ, Πανθεσσαλονίκειος Αθλητικός Όμιλος Κωνσταντινουπολιτών, '' Panthessaloníkios Athlitikós Ómilos Konstadinoupolitón'', "Pan-Thessalonian Athletic Club of ...
in Greece, signing an 18-month contract. His unlikely signing was largely attributed to club
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, and the presence of Portuguese manager Fernando Santos on the bench; though he initially struggled even to return to proper fitness levels, he was instantly given the number No. 7 shirt, once worn by legendary former player (and also chairman)
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. In 2008–09, Conceição was promoted to
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. Along with compatriot
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, he was a regular on the team's wings and gradually became a fan favourite for his leadership and his devotion to the club; at the beginning of the following campaign, however, he was regularly troubled by knee injuries for the most part of October, managing only a few appearances.


International

Conceição played 56 times with the Portugal national team and scored 12 goals, his debut being on 9 November 1996 in a 1–0 home win against
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for the
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qualifiers. In his last international game he was on the losing end of a 0–3 friendly defeat at the hands of
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, on 6 September 2003. Early in his international career, Conceição was not known for his scoring prowess but, at
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, Portugal reached the semi-finals with a major contribution from him: in the third and final match of the group stage, against defending champions
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in
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, he netted a
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for all of the game's goals; the national side had guaranteed first place in the first two rounds, so it played mostly with substitutes, but he cemented his place in the starting XI for the rest of the tournament and subsequent call-ups. In qualifying for the 2002 World Cup, Conceição scored four goals as Portugal finished atop a group that also featured the
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and the
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(netting against both).


Coaching career


Beginnings

On 13 October 2009, Conceição announced his decision to retire as a professional footballer, and to continue working at PAOK as technical director, accepting Vryzas' proposal for the seat left vacant when he assumed presidency early on. On 30 May 2010, a few weeks after Santos' resignation as
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, he left the
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club and rejoined another former team, as part of
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's coaching staff led by Dominique D'Onofrio. Conceição began his managerial career on 1 January 2012, replacing Daúto Faquirá at the helm of
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in
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. He left the
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side on 9 August, following disputes with the board. On 8 April 2013, Conceição was hired as manager of his hometown team Académica de Coimbra, less than 24 hours after the club dismissed
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from the job. They stood at 13th place when he joined, and his main goal was to avoid
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. He left at the end of the season, after leading the side to an eighth place finish. Conceição signed a two-year contract with
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on 26 May 2014; the team had just finished the campaign one place below Académica with the same number of points, resulting in the first time in ten years that Braga was out of European competitions. He led them to a fourth place finish and to the final of the domestic cup. After the semi-final victory at
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's ground, he made the 24-mile journey home from
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on foot as part of a bet made with his players. Braga lost the final in a
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to
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despite leading 2–0 at half time. Following this defeat, president António Salvador released an official statement that angered the manager, resulting in a "violent discussion" between the two and leading to the club's decision of sacking the latter. On 22 September 2015, Conceição resurfaced with his fourth management position in the Portuguese top-flight, at
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. On 17 January 2016, he led the side to their first home win against
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(1–0) in 14 years. He left at the end of the campaign, by mutual consent with the club, after a 10th place in the championship left them out of European competitions.


Nantes

Conceição was named manager of
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club
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on 8 December 2016, replacing the dismissed
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at a side second from bottom. The following February, he was linked to the vacant managerial position at struggling
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title holders
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, but Nantes chairman
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insisted he would see out his two-year contract. On 6 June 2017, it was announced that Conceição had quit his position and accepted a proposal from Porto. The manager cited personal reasons, including the possibility to live close to his family in Portugal, as to why he accepted the Portuguese club's proposal.


Porto

In June 2017, after cutting ties with the French club, Conceição replaced former teammate
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at the helm of former side Porto. He was officially presented on the 8th, signing a two-year deal. In his first season, he led the club to the national championship after a five-year wait, and his contract was extended by another year. They reached the quarter-finals in the subsequent
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, where they were ousted by eventual winners
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. On 1 March 2019, Conceição signed another deal to stay at Porto until 2021. They regained their title in 2019–20 with two games to spare, after
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's form worsened at the end of the campaign. Two weeks later, his team beat that opponent in the cup final to secure the double. The side again reached the last-eight in the Champions League, being defeated 2–1 on aggregate by
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. Conceição renewed his contract for three more years on 4 June 2021, until June 2024. The following 16 April, a 7–0 home rout of Portimonense S.C. equalled
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and
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's record of 58 league matches without losing. His third league title was sealed on 7 May, with a last-minute winner by
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at Benfica, and 15 days later a 3–1 win over
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decided the domestic cup final.


Style of play

A talented player, Conceição was mainly known for his speed, strength, and ability to cover the flank and get forward, also possessing good
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skills, crossing ability, and a fairly accurate shot. A versatile and hard-working
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, although he was usually deployed as a right winger, he was also capable of playing in a holding role.


Personal life

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's municipal government named a local 2,500-seater stadium after him – the
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. He fathered five sons: Sérgio,
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, Moisés,
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and José. Conceição helped ten families who were struggling financially during the
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, with the intent of providing "a grocery store in every home". During an interview to
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in December 2020, he stated that his hero was
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and he was a devout
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.


Career statistics


Club


International

:''Scores and results list Portugal's goal tally first, score column indicates score after each Conceição goal.''


Managerial statistics


Honours


Player

Leça * Segunda Liga: 1994–95 Porto *
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: 1996–97, 1997–98, 2003–04 *
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: 1997–98 *
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:
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Lazio *
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: 1999–2000 *
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: 1999–2000, 2003–04 * Supercoppa Italiana: 1998 *
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: 1998–99 *
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:
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Portugal *
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third place:
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*
UEFA European Under-18 Championship The UEFA European Under-19 Championship, or simply UEFA Under-19 Championship or the UEFA Euro U-19, is an annual football competition contested by the European men's under-19 national teams of the member associations of UEFA. Spain and England ...
runner-up:
1992 File:1992 Events Collage V1.png, From left, clockwise: 1992 Los Angeles riots, Riots break out across Los Angeles, California after the Police brutality, police beating of Rodney King; El Al Flight 1862 crashes into a residential apartment buildi ...
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Belgian Golden Shoe In association football, the Belgian Golden Shoe ( nl, Gouden Schoen, french: Soulier d'Or) is an award given in Belgium at the beginning of each civil year to the best footballer of the Belgian First Division A for the past year. The trophy is spon ...
: 2005


Manager

Porto *Primeira Liga: 2017–18, 2019–20, 2021–22 *Taça de Portugal: 2019–20, 2021–22 *Supertaça Cândido de Oliveira:
2018 File:2018 Events Collage.png, From top left, clockwise: The 2018 Winter Olympics opening ceremony in PyeongChang, South Korea; Protests erupt following the Assassination of Jamal Khashoggi; March for Our Lives protests take place across the United ...
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2020 2020 was heavily defined by the COVID-19 pandemic, which led to global Social impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, social and Economic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, economic disruption, mass cancellations and postponements of events, COVID- ...
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2022 File:2022 collage V1.png, Clockwise, from top left: Road junction at Yamato-Saidaiji Station several hours after the assassination of Shinzo Abe; 2022 Sri Lankan protests, Anti-government protest in Sri Lanka in front of the Presidential Secretari ...
Individual * Primeira Liga Best Coach: 2017–18, 2019–20, 2021–22


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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Conceicao, Sergio 1974 births Living people Portuguese Roman Catholics Sportspeople from Coimbra Portuguese footballers Association football wingers Primeira Liga players Liga Portugal 2 players Associação Académica de Coimbra – O.A.F. players F.C. Penafiel players Leça F.C. players F.C. Felgueiras players FC Porto players Serie A players S.S. Lazio players Parma Calcio 1913 players Inter Milan players Belgian First Division A players Standard Liège players Qadsia SC players Super League Greece players PAOK FC players Portugal youth international footballers Portugal under-21 international footballers Portugal international footballers UEFA Euro 2000 players 2002 FIFA World Cup players Portuguese football managers Primeira Liga managers S.C. Olhanense managers Associação Académica de Coimbra – O.A.F. managers S.C. Braga managers Vitória S.C. managers FC Porto managers Ligue 1 managers FC Nantes managers Portuguese expatriate footballers Portuguese expatriate football managers Portuguese expatriate sportspeople in Italy Expatriate footballers in Italy Portuguese expatriate sportspeople in Belgium Expatriate footballers in Belgium Portuguese expatriate sportspeople in Kuwait Expatriate footballers in Kuwait Portuguese expatriate sportspeople in Greece Expatriate footballers in Greece Portuguese expatriate sportspeople in France Expatriate football managers in France