Horácio José Paredes Mota Gonçalves (born 25 December 1962) is a Portuguese retired

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who played as a

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, currently a

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Playing career

Gonçalves was born in

Guimarães Guimarães () is a city and municipality located in northern Portugal, in the district of Braga. Its historic town centre has been listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 2001, in recognition for being an "exceptionally well-preserved ...

. He was a youth player at hometown club

Vitória S.C. Vitória Sport Clube, popularly known as Vitória de Guimarães or sometimes just Vitória, is a Portuguese professional football club based in Guimarães that competes in the Primeira Liga, the top flight of Portuguese football, at the Est ...

and played his only

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season with them in 1985–86, scoring once in ten appearances. He spent the bulk of his career in the Segunda Liga, achieving figures of 234 games and 69 goals for six teams, including two spells at

AD Fafe Associação Desportiva de Fafe (abbreviated as AD Fafe) is a Portuguese professional football club based in Fafe, in the district of Braga. Background AD Fafe currently plays in the Campeonato Nacional de Seniores – Série A which is ...

Coaching career

Having retired with third-division club

Varzim S.C. Varzim Sport Club () is a Portuguese football club based in Póvoa de Varzim. The club was founded on 25 December 1915, and has played at the Estádio do Varzim Sport Club since its foundation. The club plays in Liga 3, following relegation in ...

in 1994 he became their manager, overseeing consecutive promotions to reach the top flight in 1997. He also managed G.D. Chaves in that league immediately after, but spent the rest of his career at lower levels. In December 2004 he returned to second-from-bottom Varzim on an 18-month deal, losing his job in late February 2007 after a run of ten matches without a win. After four years with

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– mostly in additional roles with just four games as manager – Gonçalves returned to Portugal's second tier with

Leixões S.C. Leixões Sport Club (), commonly known as Leixões, is a Portuguese sports club from Matosinhos. It is organised into several departments for many sports, such as athletics, boxing, football, futsal, handball, karate, swimming, volleyball, wat ...

in February 2012. He left the tenth-placed side in November to return to the Eastern Mediterranean, with

AEP Paphos FC AEP Paphos (, ''Athlitiki Enosi Pafos''; "Athletic Union Paphos") was a Cypriot football club based in Paphos. The club was formed in 2000 after the merger of the two clubs of Paphos, APOP and Evagoras. AEP Paphos was dissolved on 9 June 2014, ...

in the

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; his spell there was only for three weeks. Gonçalves came back to Portugal's division two with C.D. Santa Clara, a second stint at Leixões, and

S.C. Farense Sporting Clube Farense, simply known as Farense, is a Portuguese professional association football, football club based in Faro, Portugal, Faro in the Faro District, district of the same name and the region of Algarve. Founded in 1910, the club ha ...

. In February 2017 he took over at F.C. Felgueiras 1932, his first job at the third tier in over 15 years. In mid-2018, Gonçalves moved abroad again to

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in Mozambique, succeeding the Argentne Leonardo Costas. In 2019, they won the

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, Supertaça de Mozambique and the

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Top 8 Tournament. Gonçalves was appointed manager of

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in April 2021, on a 2-year contract. His team came fourth at the

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in South Africa. On 19 October, however, after losses against

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in the

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qualifiers, his two-year contract was terminated.

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Goncalves, Horacio 1962 births Living people Footballers from Guimarães Portuguese men's footballers Men's association football forwards Primeira Liga players Liga Portugal 2 players Segunda Divisão players AD Fafe players F.C. Famalicão players Vitória S.C. players S.C. Olhanense players Varzim S.C. players Louletano D.C. players U.D. Oliveirense players Portuguese football managers Primeira Liga managers Liga Portugal 2 managers Varzim S.C. managers G.D. Chaves managers F.C. Maia managers S.C. Olhanense managers Rio Ave F.C. managers C.F. União managers Leixões S.C. managers C.D. Santa Clara managers S.C. Farense managers Super League Greece managers Asteras Tripolis F.C. managers Cypriot First Division managers AEP Paphos FC managers Mozambique national football team managers Portuguese expatriate football managers Expatriate football managers in Greece Expatriate football managers in Cyprus Expatriate football managers in Mozambique Portuguese expatriate sportspeople in Greece Portuguese expatriate sportspeople in Cyprus Portuguese expatriate sportspeople in Mozambique 20th-century Portuguese sportsmen