Coach Hlio Sousa will be champion with him – National Football – Sports

The former midfielder, almost eternal captain of Vitória de Setúbal, led the Portuguese national team to the first title in the current format of the U19 continental championship, which was also their third presence, after the disappointments of the finals 2014 and 2017.

At 49, Hélio Sousa wins the second European title, practically with the same two-year-old victorious generation, thanks to the victory against Italy, by 4-3, after extension, in Seinajoki, Finland.

Outstanding course

As a footballer, Hélio Sousa dedicated his career almost exclusively to the emblem of Setúbal, where he graduated in Sports from the local Polytechnic School.

After an internship at the Portuguese Football Federation), became a coach and made his debut in 2005/06, unsurprisingly, in Vitória de Setúbal, succeeding Luis Norton de Matos.

A season followed at the Sporting da Covilhã in 2008/09, and the return to the FPF, starting their race to the command of the selection of U18, alternating between the levels of formation, following the logic of the support of the generations until the finish at the seniors

The coach reaches four finals and wins half

On May 21, 2016, in Baku, he wins his fifth U17 title by winning the Spanish finals 5-4 on penalties after a 1-1 draw in regulation time, at a meeting in which Diogo Dalot gave the Portuguese advantage at the age of 27, and Diaz shot for the Spaniards five minutes later.

Last Sunday in Seinajoki, Portugal was always ahead 2-0 and 3-2, allowing twice the draw, until substitute Pedro Correia, at 109, decided the final of Europe under 19

The losses were in 2014, in the final finals under-19 in Hungary, where the German Hany Mukthar, in the 39th minute, scored the only goal of the decisive match and, last year, in Georgia, against England, 2-1. Easah Suliman, at age 50, gave the advantage to the British, Portugal tied at 56 thanks to a Dujon Sterling goal, but Lukas Nmecha sent the final to 68.

The next challenge in Poland

The coach should now coach the Portuguese team in the U-20 World Cup, where he has the 1989 victorious experience in Riyadh, only two years later in Lisbon, all the two under the command of Carlos Queiroz, one of the hiring managers of Hélio Sousa for the FPF, who also won the U16 European Championship in 1989.

The current Iranian national team has not equaled that Agostinho Oliveira, who led Portugal to the victories of the Under-18 European Championships in 1994 and 1999 and the U16 European Championships in 1996, while Hélio Sousa won two victories, as António Violante (Under-16 in Europe in 2000 and under-17 in 2003.)