Oliveira dos Santos Lopes (born 8 November 1965), better known as Oliveira Canindé, is a Brazilian former professional footballer and manager who played as a defensive midfielder.

Futsal player in his hometown, Canindé, Ceará, Oliveira was invited to Ceará SC youth squad in the 80s, adapting to field football as a defensive player. He also played for Fortaleza, São Bento, Figueirense, Marcílio Dias and Uniclinic, where he ended his career as an athlete in 1999.^[1]

Oliveira Canindé began his career as a coach at Boa Viagem EC in Ceará, and his first major job was Limoeiro campaign in the 2004 Campeonato Brasileiro Série C.^[1] He won his first title at Parnahyba SC, being state champion in 2006. In 2010, he achieved great work again in the smaller divisions of the Brazilian Championship, with the Série D title with Guarany de Sobral.^[2]

In 2012 he won the Copa Piauí with EC Flamengo,^[3][4] and in the following season he reached the pinnacle of his career, winning the 2013 Copa do Nordeste with Campinense.^[5] He worked in the following seasons on teams at Santa Cruz, América de Natal (being state champion once again), CSA and Sampaio Corrêa.^[6] In 2015, again at CSA, he gained the promotion with the club being runner-up in Série D.^[7]

After a few years training intermediate teams, he had a job opportunity in Santa Catarina at Hercílio Luz.^[8] In the same year, he returned to Ceará, where he won the Copa Fares Lopes with Caucaia EC.^[9] In 2021 he was the first coach in the history of the newly founded Manaura EC, winning the Amazonas second division, where he remained until the beginning of 2022.^[10] In the second half of the year, worked at Pacajus and in 2023, at CSE and in a new spell at Parnahyba.^[11]

In 2024 he started the season at AD Bahia de Feira, but ended up being fired due to the team's bad campaign at Campeonato Baiano.^[12] He was later announced as the new coach of Caucaia EC.^[13]