René Simões

René Simões
Personal information
Full name René Rodrigues Simões
Date of birth December 17, 1952 (1952-12-17) (age 59)
Place of birth Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Teams managed
Years Team
1988–1989 Brazil U-20
1990–1993 Al-Rayyan SC
1994–2000 Jamaica
2001–2002 Trinidad and Tobago
2003–2004 free agent
2004 Brazil Women
2005-2006 Iran U-23
2006 Vitória F.C.
2007–2008 Coritiba
2008 Jamaica
2008–2009 Fluminense
2009 Coritiba
2009 Portuguesa
2009 Costa Rica
2010 Ceará
2011 Bahia

René Rodrigues Simões (born December 17, 1952) is a Brazilian football head coach and former footballer.

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Coaching career

Born in Rio de Janeiro, he guided Jamaica to the World Cup in France in 1998.[1] This was Jamaica's first, and to date, only appearance in the final stages of a World Cup, as well as making Jamaica the first English speaking Caribbean country to qualify for the World Cup.

In the 2004 Summer Olympics, he won the silver medal with the Brazil women's national football team. He has also previously coached Trinidad and Tobago. In 2006 he was the Head Coach and manager of Iran national under-23 football team. In 2007 Simões then returned to Brazil to coach Série B Coritiba, where he won the second division. He left Coritiba in November 2008 to accept the position as Jamaica's Technical Director for the 2010 World Cup qualifying campaign. On September 11, 2008 Renê Simões was fired by the Jamaica Football Federation after just nine months in charge due to the country's poor performance in World Cup qualifiers.[2] On October 2, 2008, he was appointed to manage Fluminense[3] and was released on 6 March 2009.[4] Simões then returned to Coritiba at the start of the 2009 Brasiliero but was released after four months, when the club fell to the relegation zone. He then moved to Serie B Portuguesa in São Paulo but Simoes resigned in August 2009 after only two weeks as coach of second-division Portuguesa in Brazil, after saying armed men threatened the players in the locker room after a loss. He was appointed as the Head Coach of the Costa Rica national football team on September 16, 2009 after former coach Rodrigo Kenton was sacked due to poor performance in the World Cup Qualifiers for South Africa 2010.[5]

On December 20, 2009, signed to lead the Ceará officially signed Simoes as the club's new manager, he was until a few weeks ago Costa Rica national's manager, subs Gusmao who didn't renew with the Brazilian club.[6]

On July 31, 2010, he was announced as the new manager of Atlético Goianiense.

On April 10 2011, he was announced as the new manager of Bahia.

Coaching honors

References

  1. ^ Honauer, Urs (1997-06-20). "Interview - René Simoes, and Jamaica's amazing progress". FIFA. http://www.fifa.com/newscentre/news/newsid=71965.html. Retrieved 2009-05-21. 
  2. ^ "Rene Simoes no longer coach of Jamaica". CBC. 2008-09-11. http://www.cbc.ca/sports/soccer/story/2008/09/11/fifa-jamaica-simoes.html?ref=rss. Retrieved 2008-10-02. 
  3. ^ "Renê Simões é o novo técnico do Fluminense" (in Portuguese). O Globo Online. 2008-10-02. http://oglobo.globo.com/esportes/brasileiro2008/mat/2008/10/02/rene_simoes_o_novo_tecnico_do_fluminense-548520796.asp. Retrieved 2008-10-02. 
  4. ^ [1]
  5. ^ Simões neuer Ticos-Coach
  6. ^ René Simões é o novo técnico do Ceará - Diário do Grande ABC

External links

Jamaica squad – 1998 FIFA World Cup
Brazil squad – 2004 Summer Olympics (Women's Football) - Silver Medal