Samir Subash Naik (born 8 August 1979) is an Indian coach and former professional

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who played as a defender for Dempo and

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. He is currently coaching Dempo.

Playing career

Naik is part of successful Dempo SC squad which won 2 league titles and reached the semi-final of the

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, he is also a regular for

. He also captained the Indian team in an international friendly against

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in 2012.

Managerial career

Naik became the head coach of Dempo in 2019, and in the 2021–22 Goa Professional League season, the club end decade long wait, and clinched the title in style. In the inaugural season of I-League 3 in December 2023, Dempo reached play-offs and secured promotion to

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and subsequently to

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in the same season. He guided Dempo securing promotion to the

, achieving second place finish in 2023–24 I-League 2. Thus, Dempo returned to the I-League after a gap of nine years.

Honours

Player

India * AFC Challenge Cup:

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SAFF Championship The SAFF Championship (erstwhile SAARC Gold Cup and SAFF Gold Cup), is the primary association football competition contested by the senior List of men's national association football teams, men's national teams of the South Asian Football Fede ...

2011 The year marked the start of a Arab Spring, series of protests and revolutions throughout the Arab world advocating for democracy, reform, and economic recovery, later leading to the depositions of world leaders in Tunisia, Egypt, and Yemen ...

; runner-up:

; third place:

2003 2003 was designated by the United Nations as the International Year of Fresh water, Freshwater. In 2003, a Multi-National Force – Iraq, United States-led coalition 2003 invasion of Iraq, invaded Iraq, starting the Iraq War. Demographic ...

Nehru Cup The Nehru Cup was an international football tournament organised by the All India Football Federation (AIFF), named after the first Prime Minister of India, Jawaharlal Nehru. It was launched in 1982, but was not held from 1998 to 2006. After ...

2009 2009 was designated as the International Year of Astronomy by the United Nations to coincide with the 400th anniversary of Galileo Galilei's first known astronomical studies with a telescope and the publication of Astronomia Nova by Joha ...

India U23 * LG Cup: 2002

Manager

Dempo *

runner-up: 2023–24 Individual *

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Best Coach Award: 2023

References

External links

* http://goal.com/en-india/people/india/21150/sameer-naik * 1979 births Living people Indian men's footballers Footballers from Mumbai I-League players 21st-century Indian sportsmen India men's international footballers India men's youth international footballers Dempo SC players Men's association football defenders Footballers at the 2002 Asian Games Asian Games competitors for India Footballers from Goa Indian football managers {{India-footy-defender-stub