Octávio_Machado
Octávio Machado
Portuguese football coach and former player
Octávio Joaquim Coelho Machado (born 6 May 1949) is a Portuguese former football defensive midfielder and manager.
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Octávio Joaquim Coelho Machado | ||
| Date of birth | (1949-05-06) 6 May 1949 (age 75) | ||
| Place of birth | Palmela, Portugal | ||
| Height | 1.75 m (5 ft 9 in) | ||
| Position(s) | Defensive midfielder | ||
| Youth career | |||
| 1963–1968 | Palmelense | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1968–1975 | Vitória Setúbal | 146 | (16) |
| 1975–1980 | Porto | 84 | (8) |
| 1980–1983 | Vitória Setúbal | 77 | (1) |
| Total | 307 | (25) | |
| International career | |||
| 1971–1977 | Portugal | 20 | (1) |
| Managerial career | |||
| 1983–1984 | Salgueiros | ||
| 1984–1992 | Porto (assistant) | ||
| 1996–1997 | Sporting CP | ||
| 2001–2002 | Porto | ||
| *Club domestic league appearances and goals | |||
Born in Palmela, Setúbal District, Machado was a leading player for Vitória de Setúbal and FC Porto during the 1970s, winning two Primeira Liga titles with the latter even though he missed the entire 1978–79 due to injury.[1] Over the course of 15 top-division seasons, he achieved totals of 307 games and 25 goals; with the latter side, he was also involved in an internal dispute which resulted in the departure of 15 players, along with manager José Maria Pedroto and director of football Jorge Nuno Pinto da Costa.[2][3]
After retiring at the age of 34 with his first club, Machado went on to become an assistant manager to Artur Jorge, joining his Porto staff for the 1984–85 campaign.[4] There, he won two leagues in a row and the 1987 European Cup, remaining alongside Jorge into the 1990s when he finally became a head coach, managing both Porto and Sporting CP.[1]
Machado earned 20 caps for the Portugal national team, scoring once. His first appearance was on 21 November 1971, in a 1–1 draw with Belgium for the UEFA Euro 1972 qualifiers.[5][1]
Machado's last international was against Poland on 29 October 1977 in the 1978 FIFA World Cup qualifying campaign, a 1–1 draw.[1]
| No. | Date | Venue | Opponent | Score | Result | Competition |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 9 October 1977 | Idrætsparken, Copenhagen, Denmark |  Denmark | 1–4 | 2–4 | 1978 World Cup qualification[3] |
After retiring from football, Machado started a private business activity in agriculture, and was involved in local politics in his hometown of Palmela.[6]
Player
Vitória Setúbal
- Taça de Portugal runner-up: 1972–73[1]
Porto
- Primeira Liga: 1977–78, 1978–79[1]
- Taça de Portugal: 1976–77; runner-up: 1977–78, 1979–80[1]
Manager
Sporting CP
- Supertaça Cândido de Oliveira: 1995[1]
- Taça de Portugal runner-up: 1995–96[1]
Porto
- Supertaça Cândido de Oliveira: 2001[7]
- O percurso de Octávio Machado (Octávio Machado's career); Record, 14 June 2001 (in Portuguese)
- «Nos treinos do FC Porto a malta agredia gratuitamente os reforços» ("In FC Porto trainings the guys would whoop the new signings' asses for free"); Mais Futebol, 20 March 2020 (in Portuguese)
- «Dois meses no Benfica e naturalizei-me, no Porto nem em dois anos» ("Two months at Benfica and I became naturalised, not in two years would it happen at Porto"); Mais Futebol, 7 April 2020 (in Portuguese)
- Lista completa dos internacionais portugueses (Complete list of Portuguese internationals); Mais Futebol, 18 February 2004 (in Portuguese)
- Jorge Jesus num universo que só ele domina (Jorge Jesus in an universe ruled by him and no one else); SAPO, 10 August 2015 (in Portuguese)
- Octávio Machado at ForaDeJogo (archived)
- Octávio Machado manager stats at ForaDeJogo (archived)
- Octávio Machado at National-Football-Teams.com
- Octávio Machado at EU-Football.info
