Otto Martins Glória (9 January 1917 – 4 September 1986) was a Brazilian football coach.
Career Glória was born in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, but had his greatest successes with Benfica in Portugal, guiding the club to nine national trophies. With the Nigeria national team he won the 1980 African Cup of Nations.
In his first period with Benfica, the club was transformed to professional standards. Supported by president Joaquim Ferreira Bogalho, Glória founded a home for the players and focused on recruiting players from the periphery of the Portuguese capital and also from the African overseas provinces. In these years, between 1954 and 1959, the club won two league titles and three Portuguese Cups, and in European competition, they reached the Latin Cup final in 1957, losing 1–0 to Alfredo di Stéfano's Real Madrid at the Santiago Bernabéu.
In February 1962 he took the reins of Olympique Marseille. The club was then stuck in the second division and saw its aspirations to return to the first division endangered. In his four months with the club he did not lose a single match and achieved its objective.
In his second tenure with Benfica he had continuous success on the national level, winning two more championships and cups. He also led the club into the final of the 1967–68 European Cup in London against Manchester United, which was lost 1–4.
At the 1966 FIFA World Cup in England he led the Portugal national team, pushed by Eusébio's goals (the tournament's top scorer), to a historical third place. In the process Portugal inflicted a 1–3 defeat on Glória's home country Brazil.
In 1979, he became runner-up with CR Vasco da Gama of Rio de Janeiro in the Brazilian championship, losing in the final 1–2 against SC Internacional Porto Alegre, which remained undefeated throughout the competition.
In the following year, he guided Nigeria through the 1980 African Nations Cup, which the team won in the final in Lagos with 3–0 against Algeria, and the Olympics in 1980 in Moscow. He left this position after poor performances at the 1982 campaign in Libya.
Glória coached Portugal, in 1982, in qualifying matches for UEFA Euro 1984, but resigned after a 0–4 defeat in a friendly match against Brazil the following year.
Managerial statistics + Managerial record by team and tenure Team From ToRecord Vasco da Gama1 August 19517 January 1952Benfica1 August 195414 June 1959Belenenses30 June 19594 April 1961Sporting CP4 April 196124 September 1961Olympique de Marseille25 January 19621 July 1962Vasco da Gama16 June 196317 November 1963FC Porto17 November 19639 May 1965 Portugal15 November 196413 November 1966Sporting CP1 September 196530 June 1966Atlético Madrid10 August 196618 March 1968Benfica8 April 19688 February 1970Grêmio1 January 197131 December 1972Portuguesa1 January 197312 October 1977Santos14 October 19771 December 1977 Nigeria20 March 19785 October 1981Monterrey30 June 197830 June 1979Vasco da Gama30 June 197930 December 1979 Portugal22 September 19828 June 1983 Career total
Managerial honours
Club Benfica Primeira Liga: 1954–55, 1956–57, 1967–68, 1968–69 Taça de Portugal: 1954–55, 1956–57, 1968–69
Sporting CP Primeira Liga: 1961–62, 1965–66
Belenenses Taça de Portugal: 1959–60
Portuguesa Campeonato Paulista: 1973
International Portugal FIFA World Cup: Third place 1966
Nigeria African Nations Cup: 1980
See also List of football managers with the most matches
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