Otto Glória

Otto Martins Glória (9 January 1917 – 4 September 1986) was a Brazilian football coach.

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Otto Glória

Glória in 1969
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Full name	Otto Martins Glória
Date of birth	(1917-01-09)9 January 1917
Place of birth	Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Date of death	4 September 1986(1986-09-04) (aged 69)
Managerial career
Years	Team
1951	Vasco da Gama
1954–1959	Benfica
1959–1961	Belenenses
1961	Sporting
1962	Marseille
1963	Vasco da Gama
1964–1965	Porto
1965–1966	Sporting
1964–1966	Portugal
1966–1968	Atlético Madrid
1968–1970	Benfica
1971–1972	Grêmio
1973–1977	Portuguesa
1977	Santos
1978–1979	Monterrey
1979	Vasco da Gama
1978–1981	Nigeria
1982–1983	Portugal
Medal record Men's football Representing  Portugal (as manager) FIFA World Cup 1966 Representing  Nigeria (as manager) Africa Cup of Nations Winner 1980

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Glória was born in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, but had his greatest successes with Benfica in Portugal, guiding the club to nine national trophies. With the Nigeria national team he won the 1980 African Cup of Nations.

In his first period with Benfica, the club was transformed to professional standards.^[1] Supported by president Joaquim Ferreira Bogalho, Glória founded a home for the players and focused on recruiting players from the periphery of the Portuguese capital and also from the African overseas provinces. In these years, between 1954 and 1959, the club won two league titles and three Portuguese Cups, and in European competition, they reached the Latin Cup final in 1957, losing 1–0 to Alfredo di Stéfano's Real Madrid at the Santiago Bernabéu.

In February 1962 he took on the reins of Olympique Marseille. The club was then stuck in the second division and saw its aspirations to return to the first division endangered. In his four months with the club he did not lose a single match and achieved its objective.

In his second tenure with Benfica he had continuous success on the national level, winning two more championships and cups. He also led the club into the final of the 1967–68 European Cup in London against Manchester United, which was lost 1–4.

At the 1966 FIFA World Cup in England he led the Portugal national team, pushed by Eusébio's goals (the tournament's top scorer), to an historical third place. In the process Portugal inflicted a 1–3 defeat on Glória's home country Brazil.

In 1979, he became with CR Vasco da Gama of Rio de Janeiro runner-up in the Brazilian championship, losing in the final 1–2 against SC Internacional Porto Alegre, which remained undefeated throughout the competition.

In the year thereafter he guided Nigeria through the 1980 African Nations Cup, which the team won in the final in Lagos with 3–0 against Algeria,^[2] and the Olympics in 1980 in Moscow. He left this position after poor performances at the 1982 campaign in Libya.

Glória coached Portugal, in 1982, in qualifying matches for UEFA Euro 1984, but resigned after a 0–4 defeat in a friendly match with Brazil, the following year.