The “Associação Portuguesa MiniFootball” (Portuguese MiniFootball Association) is delighted to confirm that the National Coach Sandro Mendes, who led the Portuguese team in miniEURO 2015 Vrsar in Croatia – where the team made its debut in the European Championship and achieved third place in the group stage and a historic first victory – has reached an agreement for the extension of his contract,
This means he will be in charge of the team in a new cycle which will end with the participation in the next miniEURO 2016.
Mendes, 38 years old and a native of Setubal, in addition to this experience in MiniFootball, builds on a technical level experience in Vitoria Setubal where he has been a coach and coordinator of the youth teams department. As a player, Sandro Mendes was international Under-20 and Under-21 Portuguese and AA by Cape Verde, having played in the Portuguese Premier League for teams such as Vitoria Setubal and FC Porto to claim a Portuguese Cup in and one League Cup and abroad in countries like Spain and Turkey.
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