Capucho (footballer)

In this Portuguese name, the first or maternal family name is Gonçalves and the second or paternal family name is Rocha.

Nuno Fernando Gonçalves da Rocha (born 21 February 1972), known as Capucho (Portuguese pronunciation: [kɐˈpuʃu]), is a Portuguese former professional footballer who played as a winger, currently a manager.

Capucho

Personal information
Full name	Nuno Fernando Gonçalves da Rocha
Date of birth	(1972-02-21) 21 February 1972 (age 52)
Place of birth	Barcelos, Portugal
Height	1.80 m (5 ft 11 in)
Position(s)	Winger
Youth career
1984–1990	Gil Vicente
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
1989–1992	Gil Vicente	51	(2)
1992–1995	Sporting CP	65	(10)
1995–1997	Vitória Guimarães	65	(15)
1997–2003	Porto	188	(32)
2003–2004	Rangers	22	(5)
2004–2005	Celta	19	(0)
Total		410	(64)
International career
1991	Portugal U20	8	(1)
1992–1994	Portugal U21	20	(2)
1996	Portugal Olympic (O.P.)	5	(1)
1996–2002	Portugal	34	(4)
Managerial career
2010–2014	Porto (youth)
2014–2015	Porto B (assistant)
2015–2016	Varzim
2016	Rio Ave
2017–2018	Varzim
2019	Mafra
2020–2021	Covilhã
Medal record Men's football Representing  Portugal UEFA European Championship 2000 Belgium-Netherlands FIFA U-20 World Cup Winner 1991 Portugal UEFA European Under-21 Championship Runner-up 1994 France
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Blessed with both scoring and dribbling ability alike, he also displayed good defensive and tackling skills.^[1] His 15-year career was mainly associated with Porto (although he also represented Sporting CP), with which he won a total of 13 major titles, having appeared in 368 Primeira Liga games over 13 seasons, scoring 59 goals.

For Portugal, Capucho appeared in one World Cup and one European Championship, both in the early 2000s.

Club career

Capucho was born in Barcelos. After starting with his hometown's Gil Vicente F.C. he moved to Sporting CP, where he would be relatively used during his three-year spell, helping the Lisbon team to the 1995 Taça de Portugal.

After two seasons with Guimarães' Vitória SC, Capucho joined FC Porto, being a major part of a side that won three Primeira Liga titles and the 2002–03 UEFA Cup, starting in the final against Celtic.^[2] His worst domestic output came precisely that season, scoring four goals in 27 matches as the northerners won the treble.

Capucho would leave Porto prior to the conquest of the UEFA Champions League, having appeared in nearly 250 official games with the club. He retired in 2005 at the age of 32, following one-year spells with Scotland's Rangers^[3][4][5] and RC Celta de Vigo of the Spanish Segunda División.^[6]

International career

With 34 caps for Portugal,^[7] Capucho played more defensively for the nation than while at Porto,^[1] appearing at UEFA Euro 2000 (two late substitute appearances and a start against Germany, when Portugal were already qualified)^[8] and the 2002 FIFA World Cup (replacing Sérgio Conceição in the 4–0 thrashing of Poland).^[9] After Luiz Felipe Scolari took over as national team boss in early 2003, he was never called again.

In 1991, Capucho only missed one game as the under-20s (which also included Rui Costa, Luís Figo and João Pinto) won the FIFA World Cup, played on home soil.^[10][11]

Coaching career

Capucho returned to Porto in the summer of 2007, being charged with training its junior sides for several years. His first job at the professional level occurred in 2015–16, when he led newly promoted Varzim S.C. to the ninth place (from 24 teams) in the Segunda Liga. He subsequently moved to the top flight with neighbours Rio Ave FC,^[12] being fired on 10 November 2016 due to poor results.^[13]

In October 2017, Capucho returned to Varzim.^[14] He left in December of the following year, by mutual consent.^[15]

On 8 April 2019, Capucho was appointed at C.D. Mafra who were eighth in the second division following a run of nine games without a win that cost the job of Filipe Pedro.^[16] He won one and drew two of their five remaining matches, then chose to part ways.^[17]

Capucho succeeded Daúto Faquirá at S.C. Covilhã on 25 September 2020, after they lost their first three games of the new season.^[18] He left the following 9 February, with the team three points above the relegation zone despite a fixture backlog; he had started with a seven-game unbeaten run and concluded with an eight-game winless streak.^[19]

Career statistics

Club

Appearances and goals by club, season and competition^[20][21]

Club	Season	League		Cup		Europe		Other^[a]		Total
		Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals
Gil Vicente	1990–91	20	0			—		—		20	0
	1991–92	30	2			—		—		30	2
	Total	50	2			0	0	0	0	50	2
Sporting CP	1992–93	27	3	4	0	2	0	—		33	3
	1993–94	25	6	6	2	5	0	—		36	8
	1994–95	13	1	2	3	1	0	—		16	4
	Total	65	10	12	5	8	0	0	0	85	15
Vitória Guimarães	1995–96	33	8	4	0	4	0	—		41	8
	1996–97	32	7	1	0	4	0	—		37	7
	Total	65	15	5	0	8	0	0	0	78	15
Porto	1997–98	32	5	5	1	5	0	2	0	44	6
	1998–99	33	6	1	0	5	0	2	1	41	7
	1999–00	32	6	4	0	13	1	2	0	51	7
	2000–01	33	6	3	3	11	0	2	0	49	9
	2001–02	31	5	2	1	15	2	1	0	49	8
	2002–03	27	4	4	1	7	1	—		38	6
	Total	188	32	19	6	56	4	9	1	272	43
Rangers	2003–04	22	5	2	0	6	0	3	1	33	6
Celta	2004–05	19	0	0	0	—		—		19	0
Career total		409	64	38	11	78	4	12	2	537	81

1. Includes the Scottish League Cup and Supertaça Cândido de Oliveira

Capucho: International goals

No.	Date	Venue	Opponent	Score	Result	Competition
1	5 June 1999	Estádio José Alvalade (1956), Lisbon, Portugal	Slovakia	1–0	1–0	Euro 2000 qualifying^[22]
2	2 June 2000	Estádio Municipal de Chaves, Chaves, Portugal	Wales	3–0	3–0	Friendly^[23]

Honours

Sporting CP

• Taça de Portugal: 1994–95

Porto

• Primeira Liga: 1997–98, 1998–99, 2002–03
• Taça de Portugal: 1997–98, 1999–2000, 2000–01, 2002–03
• Supertaça Cândido de Oliveira: 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001
• UEFA Cup: 2002–03

Portugal U20

• FIFA U-20 World Cup: 1991^[11]

References

1. "Capucho". BBC Sport. 15 May 2002. Retrieved 9 October 2009.
2. "UEFA Cup final player ratings". BBC Sport. 21 May 2003. Retrieved 9 October 2009.
3. "Capucho joins Rangers". BBC Sport. 17 June 2003. Retrieved 27 November 2009.
4. "O'Neill cautious as Celtic take firm control". The Irish Times. 5 January 2004. Retrieved 21 January 2021.
5. Cameron, Grant (14 May 2020). "Rangers season review: 2003/04". This Is Ibrox. Retrieved 21 January 2021.
6. Villar, Juan (5 August 2004). "El Celta refuerza el ataque con Capucho y traspasa a Juanfran" [Celta bolster the attack with Capucho and transfer Juanfran]. La Voz de Galicia (in Spanish). Retrieved 1 March 2019.
7. "Lista completa dos internacionais portugueses" [Complete list of Portuguese internationals] (in Portuguese). Mais Futebol. 18 February 2004. Retrieved 15 January 2024.
8. "Conceição hat-trick ousts holders Germany". UEFA. 6 October 2003. Retrieved 3 August 2016.
9. "Portugal back on track". BBC Sport. 10 June 2002. Retrieved 3 August 2016.
10. – FIFA competition record (archived)
11. Ribeiro, Ireneu (20 August 2011). "Geração de ouro faz 20 anos" [Golden generation celebrates 20th birthday]. Diário de Notícias (in Portuguese). Retrieved 3 August 2016.
12. "Nuno Capucho apresentado como treinador do Rio Ave" [Nuno Capucho presented as manager of Rio Ave] (in Portuguese). SAPO. 21 May 2016. Retrieved 4 November 2016.
13. "Capucho deixa o Rio Ave" [Capucho leaves Rio Ave] (in Portuguese). Rádio Renascença. 10 November 2016. Retrieved 27 September 2017.
14. "Varzim anuncia Nuno Capucho como novo treinador" [Varzim announce Nuno Capucho as new manager] (in Portuguese). SAPO. 3 October 2017. Retrieved 1 March 2019.
15. [Varzim cut ties with Capucho]. A Bola (in Portuguese). 3 December 2018. Archived from the original on 12 August 2020. Retrieved 1 March 2019.
16. "Nuno Capucho apresentado como novo treinador do Mafra" [Nuno Capucho presented as new manager of Mafra]. Record (in Portuguese). 8 April 2019. Retrieved 19 September 2019.
17. Cabaço, Rui (29 May 2019). "Nuno Capucho deixa Mafra" [Nuno Capucho leaves Mafra]. Record (in Portuguese). Retrieved 19 September 2019.
18. "Capucho é novo treinador do Sporting da Covilhã" [Capucho is the new manager of Sporting da Covilhã] (in Portuguese). Mais Futebol. 25 September 2020. Retrieved 28 November 2020.
19. "Capucho deixa o comando técnico do Sporting da Covilhã" [Capucho leaves the helm of Sporting da Covilhã]. Record (in Portuguese). 9 February 2021. Retrieved 31 December 2021.
20. at ForaDeJogo (archived)  
21. Capucho at FootballDatabase.eu
22. Pestana, Luís (23 May 2012). "Euro2012: Os números de Portugal na edição de 2000" [Euro2012: Portugal's stats in the 2000 edition] (in Portuguese). Futebol 365. Retrieved 30 November 2020.
23. "Portugal com vantagem tangencial sobre Gales, em três particulares" [Portugal narrowly edge Wales, in three friendlies] (in Portuguese). SAPO. 4 July 2016. Retrieved 30 November 2020.

External links

• at ForaDeJogo (archived)  
• at ForaDeJogo (archived)
• Capucho at Soccerbase  
• Capucho at BDFutbol
• Capucho national team profile at the Portuguese Football Federation (in Portuguese)
• Capucho at National-Football-Teams.com