João Manuel Pinto Tomé Santos (born 26 May 1973), known as João Pinto or João Manuel Pinto, is a Portuguese former professional

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who played as a

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, currently

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of S.L. Cartaxo.

Playing career

Pinto was born in

Carcavelos Carcavelos () was, until 2013, a civil parish in the Portuguese municipality of Cascais, about west of Lisbon. In 2013, the parish merged into the new parish Carcavelos e Parede. The parish was known for the Carcavelos wine. With the decline o ...

Cascais Cascais () is a town and municipality in the Lisbon District of Portugal, located on the Portuguese Riviera, Estoril Coast. The municipality has a total of 214,158 inhabitants in an area of 97.40 km2. Cascais is an important tourism in Port ...

. During his career he represented

Clube Oriental de Lisboa Clube Oriental de Lisboa is a Portuguese football club based in Lisbon. Founded in 1946, it currently competes in the Campeonato de Portugal, holding home games at ''Campo Engenheiro Carlos Salema'', with an 8,500 capacity. History In January 19 ...

, S.C. Campomaiorense,

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FC Porto Futebol Clube do Porto, Order of Prince Henry, MHIH, Order of Merit (Portugal), OM (), commonly known as FC Porto or simply Porto, is a Portuguese professional sports club based in Porto. It is best known for the professional association footbal ...

and

S.L. Benfica (), commonly known as Benfica, is a professional football club based in Lisbon, Portugal, that competes in the Primeira Liga, the top flight of Portuguese football. Founded on 28 February 1904, as ''Sport Lisboa'', Benfica is one of the " ...

, retiring in 2007 after abroad stints with

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(Spanish

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) and

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(

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). In his country's

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, he amassed totals of 191 games and 20 goals over the course of ten seasons. Used often as a last-minute

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when his teams were trailing– he scored 12 competitive goals for Porto – Pinto appeared once for the Portugal national side, coming on at

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in the 1–1 friendly draw against

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, on 7 September 2002.

Coaching career

Pinto started his managerial career in the summer of 2013, going on to be in charge of

C.D. Cinfães Clube Desportivo de Cinfães is a Portuguese sports club from Cinfães, Viseu District. The men's football team played on the third tier until being relegated from the 2018–19 Campeonato de Portugal, and plays regularly in the Taça de Portu ...

in the third tier for only three months. On 23 December 2015, he was appointed academy director of Brazilian club

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. In the following seasons, Pinto led several teams in the Portuguese lower leagues. On 16 October 2022, his A.D. Machico ousted top-flight

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from the

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with a 1–0 home win in the

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. On 12 January 2023, Pinto signed for Romanian

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side

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, leaving in March for 'personal reasons' without having coached a single match. In July, he took charge of Portuguese amateurs Atlético Reguengos.

Honours

Porto *

: 1995–96, 1996–97, 1997–98, 1998–99 *

: 1997–98, 1999–2000 *

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1996 1996 was designated as: * International Year for the Eradication of Poverty Events January * January 8 – A Zairean cargo plane crashes into a crowded market in the center of the capital city of the Democratic Republic of the Congo ...

1998 1998 was designated as the ''International Year of the Ocean''. Events January * January 6 – The ''Lunar Prospector'' spacecraft is launched into orbit around the Moon, and later finds evidence for Lunar water, frozen water, in soil i ...

Sion *

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: 2005–06

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