Rogério de Sousa Gonçalves (; born 1 October 1959) is a Portuguese

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manager, currently in charge of Mozambican club Clube Ferroviário da Beira. In a career of over three decades, he had brief

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spells at Varzim,

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and Académica.

Football career

Born in the village of Lanheses in

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, Gonçalves started working as a full-time manager in 1990, with hometown club UD Lanheses. In the following nine years he worked exclusively in the lower leagues, also being in charge of A.D. Os Limianos and

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. In the summer of 1999, Gonçalves was appointed at Varzim S.C. in the Segunda Liga. He achieved promotion to the

at the end of his second season, but was sacked on 25 November 2001 after only achieving two wins in the first 12 games. Gonçalves then returned to the second division, going on to work with G.D. Chaves,

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and Leixões SC. On 4 March 2006, he re-signed at the second side who now competed in the top level, becoming their fourth coach of the campaign and finally leading them to safety with a 14th-place finish. In mid-November 2006, Gonçalves replaced fired Carlos Carvalhal at the helm of S.C. Braga. Three months later, despite helping the team rise three league places to 5th and leading after one leg of a

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last-32 tie with Parma FC, he too was dismissed and replaced by his assistant Jorge Costa. On 31 May 2007 he was appointed at division two team S.C. Beira-Mar, being sacked the following February after a ten-game winless run across all competitions. Gonçalves signed for Académica de Coimbra in August 2009, becoming the fourth casualty of the top tier season on 2 October after failing to win once in seven league contests. On 6 October 2010 he returned to Naval, being fired due to exactly the same circumstances in December. In January 2013, Gonçalves was appointed to his first job abroad, at Mozambique's Clube Ferroviário de Nampula. Two years later, having taken the club to runners-up in the

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, he signed a new contract. He left at the end of his deal in November 2015, rejecting another club in the African country due to his desire to manage back home again. Gonçalves headed back to Mozambique in June 2017, taking the helm at reigning champions Clube Ferroviário da Beira. That year, they became the first club from their nation to reach the quarter-finals of the

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, losing on the

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. In December 2018, the board decided to keep him for another season, after losing the

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final to CD Costa do Sol.

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Goncalves, Rogerio 1959 births Living people Portuguese football managers Primeira Liga managers SC Vianense managers Varzim S.C. managers G.D. Chaves managers Associação Naval 1º de Maio managers Leixões S.C. managers S.C. Braga managers S.C. Beira-Mar managers Académica de Coimbra (football) managers Portuguese expatriate football managers Expatriate football managers in Mozambique Portuguese expatriate sportspeople in Mozambique Footballers from Viana do Castelo