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Rodrigo Marques de Santana (born 29 May 1982), known as Rodrigo Santana, is a Brazilian football manager and former player who played as an attacking midfielder.

Rodrigo Santana

Personal information
Full name	Rodrigo Marques de Santana
Date of birth	(1982-05-29) 29 May 1982 (age 39)
Place of birth	Santos, Brazil
Position(s)	Attacking midfielder
Youth career
	Portuários
	Santos
	Jabaquara
	Comercial de Registro
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
2004	América-RN
2010	Confiança
Teams managed
2010	Camboriú (assistant)
2010	Camboriú
2011	Pinheiros U20
2011	Pinheiros
2012	Uberaba (assistant)
2012	Portuguesa Santista
2012	União Suzano
2013	Grêmio Barueri (assistant)
2013–2014	São Carlos U20
2014	São Carlos (interim)
2014–2016	Juventus-SP
2016	Uberaba
2017–2018	URT
2018–2019	Atlético Mineiro U20
2019	Atlético Mineiro (interim)
2019	Atlético Mineiro
2020	Avaí
2020	Coritiba
2021	Confiança
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only

Career

Born in Santos, São Paulo, Santana played as a midfielder and retired in 2010, aged 28, after suffering a hand injury while representing Confiança.[1] He started his career as Camboriú's assistant, being named manager shortly after.

In 2011, Santana was named manager of Pinheiros' under-20 manager, being in charge of the first team afterwards. He left the club in November,[2] being immediately appointed Nenê Belarmino's assistant at Uberaba.

On 14 February 2012, Santana left Uberaba and was named Portuguesa Santista manager.[3] Late in the year, he was also in charge of União Suzano during a trip in Bolivia.[4]

In 2013, Santana was Grêmio Barueri's assistant during the Campeonato Paulista Série A2.[5] On 5 November of that year, he was presented as manager of the under-20 squad of São Carlos for the ensuing Copa São Paulo de Futebol Júnior;[6] the following 8 February, he replaced fired Roberto Oliveira as manager of the main squad,[7] acting as an interim until the end of the competition and suffering relegation.

On 10 June 2014, Santana left São Carlos[8] and was appointed manager of Juventus the following day.[9] He was sacked on 11 March 2016, after achieving promotion to the second division of Paulistão the previous year.[10]

On 15 April 2016, Santana returned to Uberaba and was named manager of the main squad.[11] On 26 October, he was named at the helm of URT.[12]

On 20 July 2018, Santana signed for Atlético Mineiro as a coordinator of the youth division.[13] On 4 October 2018, he was named manager of the under-20s.[14] On 12 April 2019, he was appointed interim first team manager after the dismissal of Levir Culpi,[15] and on 24 June, he was named permanent manager.[16]

On 13 October 2019, Santana was sacked after a defeat to Grêmio.[17] On 16 February 2020, he took over Avaí in the place of sacked Augusto Inácio,[18] but was himself dismissed on 1 August.

On 29 October 2020, Santana replaced fired Jorginho at the helm of Coritiba in the top tier.[19] He was himself dismissed on 13 December, after winning only two points out of 15.[20]

On 12 May 2021, Santana was named manager of Confiança in the Série B,[21] but was sacked on 26 July after the club was in the last position.[22]

Managerial statistics

As of 13 October 2019

Managerial record by team and tenure

Team	Nat	From	To	Record								Ref
				G	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Win %
Atlético Mineiro (interim)		12 April 2019	24 June 2019	17	8	3	6	21	18	+3	047.06	[23]
Atlético Mineiro		24 June 2019	13 October 2019	24	10	3	11	30	35	−5	041.67	[23]
Total				41	18	6	17	51	53	−2	043.90	—

References

External links

• Rodrigo Santana coach profile at Soccerway

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