Benfica have announced that Team B will be handed over from Wednesday to Antonio Oliveira. The contract is valid until the end of the current season. The new coach of Team B was a player in Benfica, the club that became the junior champion, and it was already in 2012/13 that he began his coaching career, first as an assistant and in 2020 as a manager.
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Antonio Oliveira worked in Tony’s technical team in Iran (Tractor) and in Kuwait (Kazma), but in Brazil, where he was an assistant to Jesualdo Ferreira (Santos) and Paulo Autori (Atletico Paranaense), where he took a leadership role.
Under his leadership, Atletico Paranaense came last season to lead the Brazilian League, which will occupy the fourteenth place, with the departure of Antonio Oliveira in September, after the nineteenth round, leaving the team in seventh place at the time, in the quarter-finals. In the Copa Brasil and the Copa América, a competition that the club would eventually win.
In the statement issued today, Benfica also said that Antonio Oliveira’s task is to lead the team “until the end of the season”.
Benfica press release
Sport Lisboa e Benfica have reported that Antonio Oliveira is taking over the technical leadership of Team B as of today.
Antonio Oliveira, 39, was educated in the club’s schools, where he spent a decade and became a junior national champion. He started his coaching career in 2012/13, having already faced many challenges in Portugal and abroad, focusing in particular on the leadership that he practiced, in Brazil, in the U-23 teams of Santos and Atlético Paranaense. Either way, he worked with athletes who later made their way to the top teams.
In Brazil, Antonio Oliveira became the coach of Atlético Paranaense, at the time the team reached the final of the Copa del Rey and the Copa del Rey, which it would later win. From today onwards, he will have the task of leading the top level squad for Sport Lisboa e Benfica until the end of this season.
