| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Date of birth | 20 March 1965 | ||
| Place of birth | Margao, India | ||
| Playing position | Midfielder | ||
| Club information | |||
| Current club | India (coach) | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps† | (Gls)† |
| 1983-2000 | Salgaocar | ||
| Teams managed | |||
| 2000-2001 | Salgaocar (assistant coach) | ||
| 2001-2008 | Salgaocar | ||
| 2008-2011 | India (assistant coach) | ||
| 2011- | India | ||
| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. † Appearances (Goals). |
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Savio Medeira (born March 20, 1965) is a Indian football manager and former player who is currently coach of the India national football team.
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Savio spent his whole career at Salgaocar S.C. in India from 1983-2000. While with Salgaocar Savio won two Rover Cups in 1990 and 1997. He also won the Federation Cup in 1997 and even the National Football League in 1998.[1]
Savio, after retiring from playing, decided to begin coaching. He began his coaching career by acting as assistant coach at his former playing club Salgaocar for the 2000-01 season. While acting assistant Salgaocar finished the 2000-01 NFL season in sixth place. After acting as assistant coach for one season he was promoted to head manager of the club. His first season with the club Savio managed to get Salgaocar to fourth place in the 2001-02 NFL season. The next season though Savio managed to make Salgaocar runners-up in the league only five points behind champions East Bengal. He then continued his success with Salgaocar by winning the Durand Cup in 2003 by beating East Bengal 4-3 on penalties. The next season though Salgaocar dropped to seventh in the league and did not win a single trophy. Then in 2006 Salgaocar were relegated to the NFL 2nd Division. Salgaocar though were only forced to one season in the second division as they were promoted for the 2007–08 I-League but were again relegated as they finished dead last with only one win out of eighteen games. After the 2007-08 season Savio was sacked by Salgaocar.
After being sacked by Salgaocar Savio signed with the All India Football Federation to become the assistant coach to Bob Houghton on the India national football team. His first match as assistant coach was against Chinese Taipei in which India won 3-0. While as assistant coach to Bob Houghton the Indian National Team changed and won two Nehru Cup titles along with winning the 2008 AFC Challenge Cup and booking there place in the 2011 AFC Asian Cup. During the Asian Cup however India lost all three matches by heavy margins and so Bob Houghton was officially sacked but Savio stayed and Bob's successor Armando Colaco also kept Savio on the team. While assisting Colaco, India went on a low run of form as they slipped from 147 in the FIFA rankings to 163. After getting knocked out of the 2014 FIFA World Cup Qualifiers Colaco left his post as India coach while again Savio stayed on.
On October 29, 2011 it was announced that Savio would be the head coach of the India national football team till his contract ran out with the AIFF in May 2012.
| Team | From | To | Record | ||||||
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| G | W | D | L | Win % | |||||
| Salgaocar | 2001 | 2008 | 135 | 44 | 45 | 46 | 32.59 | ||
| India | 2011 | present | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 25.00 | ||
| Total | 139 | 45 | 47 | 47 | 32.37 | ||||
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