Otto Glória

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…

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