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Mariano Dias
Indian footballer and coach From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Mariano Dias (born 10 February 1960) is an Indian football coach and former player who was previously the head coach for Churchill Brothers S.C. in the I-League.
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Playing career
Dias started his footballing career in 1981 for Salgaocar S.C. and stayed till 1989 when he moved to MRF FC.[1] He stayed at MRF till 1993 and he signed with Churchill Brothers. He stayed at Churchill Brothers till he retired one year later in 1994.[1]
Coaching career
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Dias started coaching the India U14 football team in 2007 during the 2007 AFC U14 Festival.[2] He stayed with India U14 for one year. In 2008 Dias signed with SESA Football Academy.[1] He coached SESA during the 2009 I-League 2nd Division in which SESA failed to gain promotion.[3] Dias then signed with the Goa Football Association to coach the Goa football team during the 2009 Santosh Trophy tournament which Goa Won after a long time. Later for the 2010 Santosh Trophy.[4] The team managed to reach the semi-finals where the club lost 3–4 on penalties to West Bengal.[5] After coaching Goa, Dias signed with former club as a player, Salgaocar, to become the Senior Director of Football.[6] On 25 November 2011 it was announced that Dias had been appointed as assistant manager of the India national football team.[7]
Churchill Brothers
On 13 July 2012 it was announced that Dias had been signed by the Churchill Brothers to become their new head coach.[4] He was instrumental in Churchill brothers winning the I league for 2013 as head Coach. In 2014 Mariano Dias single-handedly coached Churchill brothers to their first Federation Cup Win.[8][9] Mariano was again in the limelight when he managed to assist Churchill Brothers Team to survive relegation from the I-League in the last 3 matches. https://lynxsolution.com/goalfest/2014/04/bhowmick-sacked-by-churchill-bros-mariano-dias/. He also revived the club in the Asian Football Confederation's (AFC) Cup, Asian football second tier club competition.http://www.goal.com/en-india/news/136/india/2014/05/06/4798492/churchill-look-to-establish-new-order. https://web.archive.org/web/20140506163447/http://www.the-afc.com/en/afc-cup-all-news/28271-afc-cup-md6-new-radiant-1-2-churchill-brothers.html
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Managerial statistics
Statistics accurate as of 17 February 2013
Honours
Manager
Churchill Brothers
References
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