:Valdeir Vieira

{{short description|Brazilian football manager (born 1944)}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=March 2020}}

{{Infobox football biography

| name=Valdeir Vieira

| image =

| fullname=Valdeir Badu Vieira

| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1944|7|11|df=y}}

| birth_place = Marília, São Paulo, Brazil

| currentclub =

| manageryears1 = 1987–1988 | managerclubs1 = Caracas

| manageryears2 = 1989–1990 | managerclubs2 = Deportivo Italia

| manageryears3 = 1991–1992 | managerclubs3 = Blumenau

| manageryears4 = 1992–1994 | managerclubs4 = Brusque

| manageryears5 = 1994–1996 | managerclubs5 = Alajuelense

| manageryears6 = 1996–1997 | managerclubs6 = Costa Rica

| manageryears7 = 1997 | managerclubs7 = FAS

| manageryears8 = 1997 | managerclubs8 = Iran

| manageryears9 = 1998–1999 | managerclubs9 = Oman

| manageryears10 = 1999 | managerclubs10 = Al-Ta'ee

| manageryears11 = 2000 | managerclubs11 = Al-Khaleej

| manageryears12 = 2000 | managerclubs12 = Raja Casablanca

| manageryears13 = 2000–2001 | managerclubs13 = Deportivo Saprissa

| manageryears14 = 2001–2003 | managerclubs14 = Al Arabi

| manageryears15 = 2003–2005 | managerclubs15 = Dhofar

| manageryears16 = 2005–2006 | managerclubs16 = Al Arabi

| manageryears17 = 2006–2009 | managerclubs17 = Nagano Parceiro

| manageryears18 = 2010–2013 | managerclubs18 = Bahrain

| manageryears19 = 2013 | managerclubs19 = Al-Ramtha

| manageryears20 = 2014 | managerclubs20 = Kyoto Sanga

}}

Valdeir "Badú" Vieira (born 11 July 1944 in Marília, São Paulo) is a Brazilian football manager.

Career

=Playing career=

Like many Brazilian players in the 1960s, Badu was discovered in the ever-expanding futsal scene. It is from the indoors that Vieira gets his nickname "Badu", which describes a specific way of scoring a goal. He signed his first contract as a professional with the 2nd division Dracena F.C. at age 17. Two years later he played as attacker in the 1st division with CE Aymoré – São Leopoldo, where Luiz Felipe Scolari was just starting his career as a defender in the youth team. Badu was later the first Brazilian to play respectively for the clubs: Central Español (Uruguay), Hibernians F.C. (Malta) and Croissant Club Sigois (Algeria). Plagued by injuries and more interested in studying the sciences of sports, he finished his career playing non-league football in Germany.

=Coaching career=

Badu has managed several clubs and national football teams. He managed Costa Rica during 1996{{cite web|author=Courtney, Barrie|title=Costa Rica – Details International Matches 1993–2003|website=RSSSF|url=https://www.rsssf.org/tablesc/cos-intres-det.html|date=29 November 2003}} and Oman from 1998 to 1999.{{cite web|author=Mubarak, Hassanin|title=Oman National Team Coaches|website=RSSSF|url=https://www.rsssf.org/miscellaneous/oman-coach-triv.html|date=28 November 2006}} He managed Iran during their successful qualification for the 1998 FIFA World Cup.{{cite web|url=http://www.fifa.com/classicfootball/matches/qualifiers/match=8705/index.html|title=Celebration and heartbreak|website=FIFA Official Website|access-date=16 March 2024|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20130425053310/http://www.fifa.com/classicfootball/matches/qualifiers/match=8705/index.html|archive-date=25 April 2013|url-status=dead}} On 28 December 2013, Vieira signed with Japan's J2 League side Kyoto Sanga FC, which he managed until 18 June 2014.

Managerial statistics

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!rowspan="2"|Team

!rowspan="2"|From

!rowspan="2"|To

!colspan="5"|Record

GWDLWin %
align="left"|Iran

|align="left"|1997

|align="left"|1997

{{WDL|3|0|2|1}}

align="left"|Kyoto Sanga FC[ J.League Data Site]{{in lang|ja}}

|align="left"|2014

|align="left"|2014

{{WDL|18|7|5|6}}

colspan="3"|Total

{{WDLtot|21|7|7|7}}

Honours

References

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