Vinicius da Cunha Munhoz (born 11 December 1978), known as Vinicius Munhoz, is a Brazilian

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Career

Born in Santa Maria,

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, Munhoz started his career in 1999 as a fitness coach of Internacional de Santa Maria's under-20 squad. He later worked in the same role with the main squad before joining Grêmio in 2003, again as fitness coach. In 2005, Munhoz was hired by the

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to work as a fitness coach and assistant of

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at the women's under-20 national team. Between 2007 and 2008 he worked at Esportivo as a fitness coach before rejoining Barcelos' staff at the women's national team for the

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. In 2009, Munhoz followed Barcelos to

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, being later a technical coordinator at Fragata Futebol Clube. In 2013, after a stint back at Grêmio's under-20 squad as a fitness coach, he joined Audax's subsidiary teams: starting with Osasco FC's under-20s, he later managed Grêmio Osasco's under-20 and senior squads in 2014 before taking over Audax's first team in 2015. Dismissed by Audax in late 2015, Munhoz was appointed in charge of

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's under-20 squad for the 2016 campaign. After reaching the round of 32 of the year's

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, he returned to Audax, being in charge of the club during the year's Série D. On 1 November 2016, Munhoz returned to his first club Inter-SM, now named first team manager. He renewed his contract the following 1 July, but resigned on 15 June 2018 after accepting an offer from Ferroviária. In December 2019, after Ferroviária's change of ownership, Munhoz was offered a board role, but opted to leave the club and joined

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. The following 2 January, after

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left to

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, Munhoz was named interim manager of

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References

External links

Soccer House profile
* {{DEFAULTSORT:Munhoz, Vinicius 1978 births Living people People from Santa Maria, Rio Grande do Sul Brazilian football managers Grêmio Osasco Audax Esporte Clube managers Esporte Clube Internacional managers Associação Ferroviária de Esportes managers Red Bull Bragantino II managers Red Bull Bragantino managers Sportspeople from Rio Grande do Sul