Henrique Calisto
Portuguese football player/manager
Henrique Manuel da Silva Calisto (born 16 October 1953) is a Portuguese retired footballer who played as a right-back, and is a manager.
After his playing career ended he became a manager, taking charge of numerous clubs, mainly in Portugal, and also managed the Vietnamese national team.
Playing career
Born in Matosinhos, Calisto played three seasons in the Primeira Liga with local Leixões. His best output consisted of 17 matches (one goal) in 1973–74, with the team finishing in 14th position.
Calisto retired from professional football in June 1978 at only 24, after one season with Fafe in the second division.
Coaching career
Portugal
Calisto begun coaching at the age of only 26, leading Boavista to fourth in the 1980–81 season, recording nine wins, four draws and only lost two games in his 15 matches in charge.
He spent the following four years between Boavista and their Porto neighbours Salgueiros, winning the second division in 1982 and finishing the following season in tenth. His return to Boavista was also successful, with the club finishing seventh.
After only a few months in charge of Braga, Calisto joined fellow league side Varzim in the summer of 1986, where he made another division rise at a time when he reached a run of 17 games without losing. It was this season that saw the emergence of Rui Barros, a striker who, a year later, was an important figure at Porto and joined Juventus in 1988.
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