José Maria Pedroto

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José Maria Pedroto
Personal information
Date of birth(1928-10-21)October 21, 1928
Place of birthAlmacave, Portugal
Date of deathJanuary 8, 1985(1985-01-08) (aged 56)
Place of deathPorto
Playing positionMidfielder
Senior career*
YearsTeamApps(Gls)
1948–1949Leixões
1949–1950Lusitano VRSA
1950–1952Belenenses
1952–1960Porto
National team
Portugal
Teams managed
1962–1964Académica de Coimbra
1964–1965Leixões
1965–1966Varzim
1966–1969Porto
1969–1974Vitória FC
1974–1976Boavista
1974–1977Portugal
1976–1980Porto
1981–1982Vitória SC
1982–1984Porto
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only.
† Appearances (Goals).

José Maria Carvalho Pedroto, OIH, (21 October 1928[1] – 8 January 1985) was a Portuguese footballer and trainer. He was nicknamed Zé do Boné (the Portuguese name of comic strip character Andy Capp) since, like the character, he usually wore a flat cap.

Player

Pedroto was born at Almacave, Lamego.

A right midfielder, he played for Leixões SC, Lusitano VRSA, Belenenses and FC Porto, where his childhood idol Pinga played, for a record value which many believed to be scandalous. There, he rose as one of the best national players of the 50's. He was capped 17 times for Portugal, 1 with Belenenses and 16 with FC Porto. His first game was on April 20, 1954, a 3–0 loss to France, in a friendly match, and his last game, on December 22, 1957, a 3–0 loss to the Italy, in Milan, in a World Cup qualifying match.

Manager

The first Portuguese manager with a diploma and one of the first to join a managing course, Pedroto's first work with the youth sides was impressive, and his career continued in style in Académica Coimbra, where he was replaced by Mário Wilson,[2] Varzim SC (after being sacked by Leixões), and in 1969 he had his first stint with Porto, winning a domestic cup. After that, he went to Vitória Setúbal, leading the club to its highest achievements.

Four years later, in 1974 Pedroto joined Porto side Boavista FC, winning two cups and reaching a second place in the league. In 1978, he returned to Porto, which had been in a 19-year title drought.

With Jorge Nuno Pinto da Costa, Pedroto made one of the most impressive board-bench duo in Portuguese football history. In a time where even FC Porto directors bowed to Lisbon sides, their anti-centralist speech made quite an impact, and Porto won the 77–78 and 78–79 titles. After failing the "tri", both Pinto da Costa and Pedroto left FC Porto due to internal disputes, with the coach going to Vitória Guimarães, where he placed the Minho side twice in the top 5 positions.

When Pinto da Costa was elected as FC Porto's president, Pedroto was given the job again, which turned out to be his last. He died at Porto, not long after Porto's defeat in the 1984 Cup Winners' Cup, victim of cancer, but his work endured for most of the decade, and he is regarded as one of the responsibles for the 1987 Champions Cup win. Porto's coach was Artur Jorge, who worked with Pedroto in Vitória Guimarães, and was the coach he requested as his replacement.

Honours

Porto (1966–1969; 1976–1980; 1982–1984)
  • 1977–78, 1978–79
  • 1983
  • 1967–1968, 1976–1977, 1983–1984
Boavista (1974–1976)
  • 1974–1975, 1975–1976

Legacy

References

Preceded by
Portugal José Augusto
Portugal national football team manager
1973–1976
Succeeded by
Portugal Juca
Preceded by
Portugal Fernando Vaz
Cup of Portugal Winning Coach
1967–68
Succeeded by
Brazil Otto Glória
Preceded by
Portugal Mário Lino
Cup of Portugal Winning Coach
1974–75
Succeeded by
Portugal José Maria Pedroto
Preceded by
Portugal José Maria Pedroto
Cup of Portugal Winning Coach
1975–76
Succeeded by
Portugal José Maria Pedroto
Preceded by
Portugal José Maria Pedroto
Cup of Portugal Winning Coach
1976–77
Succeeded by
Portugal Rodrigues Dias
Preceded by
Sweden Sven-Göran Eriksson
Cup of Portugal Winning Coach
1983–84
Succeeded by
Hungary Pal Csernai
Preceded by
Portugal António Oliveira
Portuguese SuperCup Winning Coach
1983–84
Succeeded by
Portugal Artur Jorge
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