| Personal information | |||
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| Full name | José Júlio de Carvalho Peyroteo Martins Couceiro |
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| Date of birth | October 4, 1962 | ||
| Place of birth | Lisbon, Portugal | ||
| Club information | |||
| Current club | Lokomotiv Moscow (manager) | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps† | (Gls)† |
| 1981–1982 | Mortijo | ||
| 1982–1985 | Berreirense | ||
| 1985–1986 | Atlético CP | ||
| 1986–1988 | Torreense | ||
| 1988–1989 | Oriental | ||
| 1989–1991 | Torreense | ||
| 1991–1992 | Estrela da Amadora | ||
| Teams managed | |||
| 2002–2004 | Alverca | ||
| 2004–2005 | Vitória de Setúbal | ||
| 2005 | Porto | ||
| 2005–2006 | Belenenses | ||
| 2006–2007 | Portugal U-21 | ||
| 2008 | Kaunas | ||
| 2008–2010 | Lithuania | ||
| 2009–2010 | Gaziantepspor | ||
| 2011 | Sporting CP (caretaker) | ||
| 2011- | Lokomotiv Moscow | ||
| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. † Appearances (Goals). |
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José Júlio de Carvalho Peyroteo Martins Couceiro (born 4 October 1962[1]) is a Portuguese football manager who currently manages Lokomotiv Moscow. Despite his young age, he has served as president for the Sindicato dos Jogadores Profissionais de Futebol (Portuguese Football Players' Union) and manager for Sporting Clube de Portugal. He is a known fan of the Lisbon side, and related to club legend and member of "The Five Violins" Fernando Peyroteo, through his mother.
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 the 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.[2] 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.[3]
On February 26, 2011, after the dismissal of Paulo Sergio, Couceiro was named caretaker manager for the remainder of the season.
Fernando Peyroteo, the former Sporting Clube de Portugal legend, is Couceiro's granduncle. António César de Vasconcelos Correia, 1st Viscount and 1st Count de Torres Novas and 93rd Governor of India, was his great-great-great-uncle. Augusto de Vasconcelos was his second cousin, three times removed. His father, an engineer also named José Martins Couceiro, born in Angola in 1928 and deceased on 30 September 2005, was the first chairman of the former Clube Académico de Coimbra in 1974. Married to Clara, he is the father of three daughters, Catarina (born 1991), Sofia (born 1994), and Beatriz (born 1996).
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