José Roberto Fernandes Barros (born 5 May 1971), known as Roberto Fernandes, is a Brazilian football

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and former player who played as a

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Career

Born in

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, Fernandes played for Náutico and Santa Cruz as a youth. A

, he played professionally for América-SP and Ferroviário do Recife before retiring; he subsequently became a manager of the latter club in 1997. Fernandes subsequently worked for

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and Unibol before moving to the

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, where he led Primavera to the Campeonato Paulista Série B2 title in 2001. He began the 2002 season with

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, later working with Linense (where he was stabbed by a player whom he released) and

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's under-20 squad; he was appointed manager of the first team in the latter club for the ensuing campaign on 14 November 2002. Fernandes achieved promotion to the

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with

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in 2004, and was later in charge of Anapolina during the Série B. He also worked with São Bento in that year, where he left in December to take over

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. On 23 December 2004, Fernandes left União São João without managing a single match for the club, after accepting an offer from

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. He was sacked the following March, being replaced by Jair Pereira, and later went on to work at Vila Nova. Fernandes was in charge of five different clubs during the 2006 season:

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, Vila Nova,

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, Ituano, and Brasiliense; with the latter club he won the 2007

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before accepting an offer from Náutico in July of that year. He resigned from Náutico on 20 May 2008, despite leading the Série A at the time, and was named at the helm of

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just hours later, replacing

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; he was himself dismissed by ''Furacão'' on 4 August. Fernandes returned to Náutico on 8 August 2008, but was sacked the following 7 March. He took over Figueirense five days later, but was relieved of his duties on 29 August. Appointed in charge of

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on 22 September 2009 in the place of Márcio Fernandes, Fernandes subsequently worked for Brasiliense and Atlético Goianiense before returning to Náutico on 30 September 2010, where he replaced

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. Sacked on 2 May of the following year, he was named Paysandu manager late in the month, but his reign only lasted until 13 September. Fernandes was named

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manager on 20 October 2011, replacing Sérgio Guedes, but was sacked on 29 January of the following year, after just three matches in the campaign, as the club returned to their previous name of Guaratinguetá. He was appointed at the helm of América de Natal in March 2012, winning the 2012

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but being sacked in February 2013. On 8 August 2013, Fernandes was appointed manager of América's rivals

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. He narrowly avoided relegation in the 2013 Série B, but was sacked on 16 March 2014. In October 2014, after a short stint at

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, Fernandes returned to América. He left the club on 8 October of the following year, and subsequently worked for Capivariano, Confiança and Paraná during the 2016 season. Fernandes returned to Náutico for a fourth spell on 1 August 2017, after previously working at Bangu and Confiança in the campaign. Despite winning the

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, he was sacked on 6 May, and was subsequently in charge of Santa Cruz for their Série C campaign. In September 2018, he replaced

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as manager of CRB. He left the club the following April, subsequently returning to former sides ABC and América before rejoining CRB on 18 December 2020. On 24 May 2021, after losing the year's

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, Fernandes was sacked. He returned to Náutico for a fifth spell on 17 April of the following year, being dismissed exactly three months later. On 8 August 2022, Fernandes replaced

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at the helm of

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, but was himself dismissed on 14 October.

Honours

Primavera * Campeonato Paulista Série B2: 2001 Brasiliense *

: 2007 América de Natal *

: 2012, 2015 * Copa RN: 2012 Remo *

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: 2014 Náutico *

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References

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