António José Conceição Oliveira

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Toni

Full name	António José Conceição Oliveira
Date of birth	October 14, 1946 (1946-10-14) (age 61)
Place of birth	Anadia, Portugal
Playing position	Midfielder
Senior clubs¹
Years	Club	App (Gls)*
1964-1968 1968-1981	Académica de Coimbra SL Benfica	391 (23)
National team
1969-1978	Portugal	33 (0)
Teams managed
	SL Benfica Girondins de Bordeaux Sevilla FC SL Benfica Al-Ittifaq
¹ Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. * Appearances (Goals)

António José Conceição Oliveira known as Toni, is a coach, and a former Portuguese football player, born on October 14, 1946 in Anadia.

[edit] Player

He started playing football at an early age for Salesianos de Mogofores (in Anadia municipality), then he went to Anadia, a bigger team, and when he was 17 years old he joined Académica de Coimbra (Académica) for the hand of Mário Wilson who was Académica's manager at the time. In Coimbra he made part of the team which achieved the final of Portuguese Football Cup in 1967, losing the match for Vitória de Setúbal after an extra-time. In June 9, 1968 he signed for Sport Lisboa e Benfica (Benfica), for a transfer fee of 1 305 000 PTE (about 6,500 euros today without inflation). There he became one of the most renowned players of Benfica's history. Portuguese Footballer of the Year in 1972.

He had 33 caps for Portugal national football team, from 12 October 1969, in a 0-1 defeat with Romania, during the World Cup qualifyings, to 8 March 1978, in a 0-2 defeat with France, in a friendly match.

He also played at the Independence Brazil Cup in 1972, were Portugal lost the final to Brazil. He finished his career in Benfica, in 1980/81.

[edit] Coach

As a coach, Toni worked for Benfica, where he reached the European Champions Cup final in 1988 and won the Portuguese Football Championship in 1994, Girondins de Bordeaux, Sevilla FC, Shenyang Ginde and Al-Ahli (Dubai).

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Preceded by Manuel José	Cup of Portugal Winning Coach 1992-93	Succeeded by Bobby Robson

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S.L. Benfica – Managers

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FC Girondins de Bordeaux – Managers

Diaz (1937–42) • Stern & Urtizberea (1942–43) • Saggiero (1943–45) • Bunyan (1945–47) • Gérard (1947–57) • Urtizberea (1957) • Libar (1957–60) • Artigas (1960–67) • Bakrim (1967–70) • Danzelle (1970) • Gérard (1970–72) • Phelipon (1972–74) • Menaut (1974–76) • Montes (1976–78) • Carniglia (1978–79) • Goethals (1979–80) • Jacquet (1980–89) • Couécou (1989) • Goethals (1989–90) • Rohr (1990) • Gili (1990–91) • Rohr (1991–92) • Courbis (1992–94) • Toni (1994–95) • Guérit (1995) • Muslin (1995–96) • Rohr (1996) • Courbis (1996–97) • Stéphan (1997–98) • Baup (1998–2003) • Pavon (2003–05) • Gomes (2005–07) • Blanc (2007–)