Place of birth Lisbon, Portugal Name Jose Couceiro Playing position Role Football manager | Years Team Position Defender 1981–1982 Montijo | |
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Full name Jose Julio de Carvalho Peyroteo Martins Couceiro Date of birth (1962-10-04) October 4, 1962 (age 53) Similar People Fernando Peyroteo, Fabiano Soares Pessoa, Fernando Santos, Bruno Ribeiro | ||
Lithuanian football NT 2008 (Jose Couceiro)
José Júlio de Carvalho Peyroteo Martins Couceiro (born 4 October 1962) is a Portuguese football manager.
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Managerial career
As a manager, Couceiro's career is marked with the relegation of Alverca in the 2003–04 season. He bounced back with a good run with Vitória de Setúbal, and won the best Portuguese coach prize. He then signed for FC Porto on 1 February 2005, going on to Belenenses during the 2005–06 season. In August 2006, he was appointed manager of the Portuguese under-21 team, reaching positive results in the UEFA Championships.
He was then appointed the head coach of FBK Kaunas, the Lithuanian A Lyga club controlled by Vladimir Romanov, in July 2008. On 5 August 2008, Kaunas, playing in a UEFA Champions League play-off match, beat 2007 UEFA Cup finalists Rangers of Scotland 2–1 on aggregate to qualify for the third round for the first time in their history. He became head coach of the Lithuanian national team on 14 August 2008. In his first competitive match as manager, Lithuania defeated Romania 3–0 in Cluj-Napoca for a 2010 FIFA World Cup qualifier. After that, they beat Austria 2–0 at home, and the Faroe Islands 1–0. They did not, however, qualify for the World Cup tournament in South Africa.
In April 2009, Couceiro signed as a manager with Turkish side Gaziantepspor.
On February 26, 2011, following the dismissal of Paulo Sergio, Couceiro was named caretaker manager of Sporting CP for the remainder of the season. He then moved to Lokomotiv Moscow in July 2011, however left the club in May 2012 as his contract was not renewed.
After being appointed as the manager of Vitória de Setubal in 2013, he was sacked on 15 May 2014.
