Nuno Santos (footballer, born 1973)

Nuno Luís Costa Santos (born 20 April 1973) is a Portuguese retired professional footballer who played as a goalkeeper, and is the goalkeeping coach for English club Tottenham Hotspur.

For other people with the same name, see Nuno Santos.
Nuno Santos
Personal information
Full name Nuno Luís Costa Santos
Date of birth (1973-04-20) 20 April 1973
Place of birth Setúbal, Portugal
Height 1.85 m (6 ft 1 in)[1]
Position(s) Goalkeeper
Club information
Current team
 Tottenham Hotspur (goalkeeping coach)
Youth career
1984–1985 OVNI 2001
1985–1991 Vitória Setúbal
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1991–1998 Vitória Setúbal 42 (0)
1991–1992 → Caldas (loan) 13 (0)
1993–1994 → Operário (loan)
1998–1999 Leeds United 0 (0)
1999–2004 Benfica 0 (0)
2000 → Badajoz (loan) 0 (0)
2001 → Santa Clara (loan) 7 (0)
2001–2002 → Beira-Mar (loan) 24 (0)
2003–2004 → Vitória Setúbal (loan) 13 (0)
2004–2007 Santa Clara 69 (0)
2007 Raging Rhinos 2 (0)
2008 Toronto FC 0 (0)
2008–2009 Gondomar 19 (0)
2009–2010 Arouca 9 (0)
2010–2012 Ethnikos Assia 10 (0)
Total 208 (0)
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only

Playing career

Born in Setúbal, Santos made his professional debut with his hometown club Vitória FC,[2] also serving two loans with lowly teams (Caldas S.C. and CD Operário). His performances in the 1997–98 campaign attracted the attention of Leeds United,[3][4] but he made no official appearances whatsoever for the Premier League side, returning to his country with S.L. Benfica.[2]

During his stint in Lisbon, Santos was almost always only third-choice, and went on to also serve several loans, including in Spain's CD Badajoz, playing no games in the second level during his four-month spell.[2] Released by Benfica in June 2004 after a season-long loan spell at Vitória,[5] he stabilised at C.D. Santa Clara – which he had already represented on loan from Benfica – starting in two of his three campaigns in the Azores.[2]

After one year in North America, appearing for both the Rochester Raging Rhinos and Toronto FC, Santos returned to Portugal and played in slightly more than half of the league's matches for Gondomar SC, with the club, also in division two, being relegated. In the summer, he dropped down to the third tier and joined F.C. Arouca.[2]

Coaching career

Upon retiring at the age of 39, Santos worked as goalkeeper coach of the Canadian national team.[6] In 2018, in the same capacity, he signed with Lille OSC of the French Ligue 1;[7][8] in November 2019, still in that role, he moved to English club Tottenham Hotspur.[9]

References
  1. "Nuno Santos". Footballdatabase. Retrieved 17 December 2009.
  2. "Entrevista com… Nuno Santos" [Interview with… Nuno Santos] (in Portuguese). Ricardo Nuno Almeida. 14 December 2010. Retrieved 3 September 2017.
  3. "Football: On the move". The Independent. 24 October 1998. Retrieved 3 September 2017.
  4. Andrews, Phil (7 December 1998). "Football: O'Leary manages to release the brake". The Independent. Retrieved 3 September 2017.
  5. "Bossio e Nuno Santos rescindiram" [Bossio and Nuno Santos have cut ties]. Record (in Portuguese). 4 June 2004. Retrieved 28 September 2004.
  6. "Canada Soccer presents goalkeeper clinic for League1 and OPDL coaches". Ontario Soccer. 10 June 2016. Retrieved 14 November 2019.
  7. "LOSC: l'effectif de la saison 2019–2020" [LOSC: the 2019–2020 season squad]. La Voix du Nord (in French). 5 August 2019. Retrieved 14 November 2019.
  8. Bja, Rayan (25 October 2019). "Maignan évoque sa relation avec Nuno Santos" [Maignan recalls relation with Nuno Santos] (in French). Le Petit Lillois. Retrieved 14 November 2019.
  9. "Jose Mourinho names all new backroom team after taking over at Tottenham". Metro. 20 November 2019. Retrieved 20 November 2019.
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