# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/fernando-santos
# Generated: 2026-08-31T14:56:24.606Z

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name: "Fernando Santos"
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description: "He coached Portugal to the country's first two major trophies — Euro 2016 and the 2019 Nations League — after spending most of his playing career as a left-back at Estoril and the 2000s managing clubs in Greece."
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birthDate: "1954-10-10"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Born 10 October 1954, Fernando Santos played 161 Primeira Liga matches over eight seasons, almost entirely with Estoril, before retiring and returning there as a coach in 1988. He managed Portugal's Big Three, collecting five major titles with Porto, then spent most of the 2000s in Greece with AEK Athens and PAOK. Appointed Greece manager in 2010, he led them through a World Cup and a European Championship before taking the Portugal job. There he delivered Euro 2016 and the 2019 Nations League — the nation's first two major tournament wins — and left in 2022. A year managing Poland ended in dismissal that September; a brief return at Besiktas gave way to the Azerbaijan post in June 2024.