Diamantino Miranda

International career At youth level, Diamantino represented Portugal in two competitions: the 1978 UEFA European Under-18 Championship in Poland and the 1979 FIFA World Youth Championship in Japan, playing three games in each tournament. He earned 22 caps with five goals for the full side, his debut coming on 18 November 1981 in a 2–1 win against Scotland for the 1982 FIFA World Cup qualifiers. He represented the nation at both UEFA Euro 1984 and the 1986 World Cup; in the latter tournament, in a 3–1 group stage loss to Morocco on 11 July, he appeared in his last match and scored his last goal.

Coaching career A manager since 1994, starting at Setúbal, Diamantino managed that club for a handful of games in two top-flight spells, nearly a decade apart. Additionally at that level, he had two stints in charge of S.C. Campomaiorense.

Diamantino was appointed Segunda Liga side S.C. Olhanense's manager midway through 2007–08, having started the campaign at Varzim S.C. in the same league. In May 2008 he joined Benfica as an assistant coach, under new boss Quique Sánchez Flores; both left the post at the end of the season, after which he moved to the youth academy.

In summer 2010, Diamantino signed for second-tier C.D. Fátima, being fired in late November. He moved abroad for the first time in his career to manage CD Costa do Sol in Mozambique, but his spell at the club ended in October 2013 when Minister of Labour Maria Helena Taipo expelled him from the southern African country for having called its people "thieves" in protest at a refereeing decision; he returned to the Moçambola in January 2019, when he was hired at Liga Desportiva de Maputo.

Honours Player Benfica Primeira Divisão: 1982–83, 1983–84, 1986–87, 1988–89 Taça de Portugal: 1979–80, 1982–83, 1984–85, 1985–86, 1986–87 Supertaça Cândido de Oliveira: 1985, 1989