Antônio Dumas Ramalho Esteves (28 November 1955 – 30 December 2019) was a Brazilian

football Football is a family of team sports that involve, to varying degrees, kick (football), kicking a football (ball), ball to score a goal (sports), goal. Unqualified, football (word), the word ''football'' generally means the form of football t ...

player and manager.

Playing career

He played for

Esporte Clube Bahia Esporte Clube Bahia () is a Brazilian professional association football club based in Salvador, the capital city of the Brazilian state of Bahia. Known mainly as the ''Esquadrão de Aço'' (Steel Squadron), the club competes in the Campeo ...

, Desportiva Leônico, Santos,

S.C. Olhanense Sporting Clube Olhanense (), commonly known as Olhanense, is a Portuguese sports club from Olhão, Algarve. Its Association football, football team was founded on 27 April 1912 and currently plays in the Algarve Football Association Portuguese Di ...

and G.D. Chaves.

Coaching career

Dumas coached a number of teams in Brazil, and

Gabon Gabon ( ; ), officially the Gabonese Republic (), is a country on the Atlantic coast of Central Africa, on the equator, bordered by Equatorial Guinea to the northwest, Cameroon to the north, the Republic of the Congo to the east and south, and ...

São Tomé and Príncipe São Tomé and Príncipe, officially the Democratic Republic of São Tomé and Príncipe, is an island country in the Gulf of Guinea, off the western equatorial coast of Central Africa. It consists of two archipelagos around the two main isla ...

Togo Togo, officially the Togolese Republic, is a country in West Africa. It is bordered by Ghana to Ghana–Togo border, the west, Benin to Benin–Togo border, the east and Burkina Faso to Burkina Faso–Togo border, the north. It is one of the le ...

and

Equatorial Guinea Equatorial Guinea, officially the Republic of Equatorial Guinea, is a country on the west coast of Central Africa. It has an area of . Formerly the colony of Spanish Guinea, its post-independence name refers to its location both near the Equ ...

in Africa. He explained in a letter sent to a Brazilian media that he was not dismissed from the Togo national team. It was he who wanted to leave, having received the job offer from the

Equatoguinean Football Federation The Equatoguinean Football Federation (; FEGUIFUT) is the governing body of football in Equatorial Guinea. It was founded in 1975, and became affiliated with FIFA and CAF in 1986. The federation organizes the national football league and the nati ...

to be the coach of its

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Later life and death

Dumas died on 30 December 2019 in

Conakry Conakry ( , ; ; ; ) is the Capital city, capital and largest city of Guinea. A port city, it serves as the economic, financial and cultural centre of Guinea. Its population as of the 2014 Guinea census was 1,660,973. The current population of C ...

, Guinea, aged 64.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Dumas, Antonio 1955 births 2019 deaths Footballers from Santo André, São Paulo Brazilian men's footballers Esporte Clube Bahia players Santos FC players S.C. Olhanense players G.D. Chaves players Brazilian football managers Expatriate football managers in Gabon Gabon national football team managers Expatriate football managers in São Tomé and Príncipe São Tomé and Príncipe national football team managers Expatriate football managers in Togo Togo national football team managers Expatriate football managers in Equatorial Guinea Equatorial Guinea national football team managers Expatriate football managers in Tunisia 2000 African Cup of Nations managers JS Kairouan managers AS Gabès managers Men's association football players not categorized by position Associação Olímpica de Itabaiana managers 20th-century Brazilian sportsmen