Oliveira Canindé

Oliveira dos Santos Lopes (born 8 November 1965), better known as Oliveira Canindé, is a Brazilian former professional footballer and manager who played as a defensive midfielder.

Playing career

Futsal player in his hometown, Canindé, Ceará, Oliveira was invited to Ceará SC youth squad in the 80s, adapting to field football as a defensive player. He also played for Fortaleza, São Bento, Figueirense, Marcílio Dias and Uniclinic, where he ended his career as an athlete in 1999.

Managerial career

Oliveira Canindé began his career as a coach at Boa Viagem EC in Ceará, and his first major job was Limoeiro campaign in the 2004 Campeonato Brasileiro Série C.

In 2012 he won the Copa Piauí with EC Flamengo, and in the following season he reached the pinnacle of his career, winning the 2013 Copa do Nordeste with Campinense. He worked in the following seasons on teams at Santa Cruz, América de Natal (being state champion once again), CSA and Sampaio Corrêa. In 2015, again at CSA, he gained the promotion with the club being runner-up in Série D.

After a few years training intermediate teams, he had a job opportunity in Santa Catarina at Hercílio Luz. In the same year, he returned to Ceará, where he won the Copa Fares Lopes with Caucaia EC. In 2021 he was the first coach in the history of the newly founded Manaura EC, winning the Amazonas second division, where he remained until the beginning of 2022. In the second half of the year, worked at Pacajus and in 2023, at CSE and in a new spell at Parnahyba.

In 2024 he started the season at AD Bahia de Feira, but ended up being fired due to the team's bad campaign at Campeonato Baiano. He was later announced as the new coach of Caucaia EC.

Honours

Player

Ceará Campeonato Cearense: 1984, 1986, 1989

Figueirense Campeonato Catarinense: 1994

Atlético Cearense Campeonato Cearense Série B: 1998

Manager

Parnahyba Campeonato Piauiense: 2006

Guarany de Sobral Campeonato Brasileiro Série D: 2010

Flamengo-PI Copa Piauí: 2012

Campinense Copa do Nordeste: 2013

América-RN Campeonato Potiguar: 2014 Copa Cidade do Natal: 2014

Caucaia Copa Fares Lopes: 2019

Manauara Campeonato Amazonense Second Division: 2021