Floyd Pinto

Floyd Pinto
Personal information
Date of birth (1986-12-16) 16 December 1986 (age 38)
Place of birth Mumbai, India
Team information
Current team
 Odisha (assistant)
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
Mumbai University
Kenkre
Managerial career
2017 India U17 (assistant)
2017−2018 Indian Arrows (assistant)
2017–2019 India U19
2018−2019 Indian Arrows
2020−2022 RoundGlass Punjab (assistant)
2022−2023 NorthEast United (assistant)
2023 NorthEast United (interim)
2023− Odisha (assistant)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Floyd Pinto (born 16 December 1986) is an Indian football coach. He is currently the assistant coach of Indian Super League club Odisha.[1]

He was an IT engineer before taking up football coaching as a career.[2]

Personal life

Pinto grew up at Mumbai, India. He had his graduation in Information Technology from Don-Bosco Institute, Mumbai University at Kurla-Mumbai.[3]

Career

During his graduation at Don Bosco, when he was playing for Kenkre FC, the Institute administrator got him into part-time coach of Kenkre FC which at that time was part of Mumbai Elite Division and also for their team at I-League for around four years. He then graduated from Asian Football Confederation (AFC) with 'A' License in coaching from the May 2014 batch. He is one of youngest coach in the country holding AFC 'A' license.

In 2017, he joined Luís Norton de Matos as his deputy for the U-17 India National Team and as well as Indian Arrows later.[4] Later on resignation of Matos as the coach of U-20 team and the India arrows in July 2018 he was unanimously appointed as the coach of India national under-20 football team and Indian Arrows[5] Due to poor performance by India U20 team for the AFC qualification, he was released by AIFF as the head coach of the U20 team and the Indian Arrows club team.

NorthEast United

In August 2022, Pinto moved to Indian Super League club NorthEast United as an assistant to Israeli head coach Marco Balbul.[6]

Managerial statistics

As of 6 December 2019
Team From To Record
G W D L Win %
India Indian Arrows 2018 2019 20 6 6 8 030.00
Total 20 6 6 8 030.00

References

  1. ^ "The club welcomes the arrival of Floyd Pinto who will take over as the Assistant Coach of the senior men's team 🟣⚫️". @OdishaFC. 30 June 2023. Archived from the original on 30 June 2023. Retrieved 30 June 2023.
  2. ^ "Football: From an IT engineer to Indian Arrows coach, Floyd Pinto's journey is one of a kind". scroll.in. 19 July 2018. Archived from the original on 1 September 2018. Retrieved 1 September 2018.
  3. ^ Anselm Noronha. "India U-19's Floyd Pinto: The engineer who became one of India's foremost youth coaches". Goal.com. Archived from the original on 31 August 2018. Retrieved 31 August 2018.
  4. ^ Mukherjee, Soham (1 February 2019). "I-League 2018–19: Katsumi Yusa's brace helps NEROCA do the double over Indian Arrows". www.goal.com. Goal. Archived from the original on 13 May 2021. Retrieved 13 May 2021.
  5. ^ "De Matos's assistant Floyd Pinto appointed coach of I-League side Indian Arrows". Scroll.in. Archived from the original on 26 July 2018. Retrieved 31 August 2018.
  6. ^ "NorthEast United appoint Floyd Pinto as Indian assistant coach". khelnow.com. 12 August 2022. Archived from the original on 13 August 2022. Retrieved 13 August 2022.


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