Ricardo Dionísio

Ricardo Nuno Pereira Dionísio (born 4 December 1982) is a Portuguese football coach, currently the assistant manager of Brazilian club Bahia.

In this Portuguese name, the first or maternal family name is Pereira and the second or paternal family name is Dionísio.
Ricardo Dionísio
Personal information
Full name Ricardo Nuno Pereira Dionísio
Date of birth (1982-12-04) 4 December 1982
Place of birth Arruda dos Vinhos, Portugal
Team information
Current team
 Bahia (assistant)
Managerial career
Years Team
2005–2008 Benfica (youth)
2008–2009 Real Massamá (youth)
2019 Stade Nyonnais
2020 FC Sion (caretaker)
2023– Bahia (assistant)

Managerial career

Dionísio began his professional career in the under-13 seven-a-side football side of Sport Alenquer e Benfica. He later worked in the youth sides of Benfica and Real Massamá before becoming a fitness coach at Monsanto in 2009.

Dionísio continued to work as a fitness coach in the following years, working under João Alves at Swiss side Servette, and later with José Peseiro at Al Wahda, Al Ahly, Porto and Braga. He then worked under the same capacity with Oscar Londono at Stade Nyonnais during the 2017–18 season, before rejoining Peseiro's staff at Sporting CP in 2018.

Dionísio became a football manager with Stade Nyonnais in 2019, and signed a contract with FC Sion in the Swiss Super League on 1 January 2020, mainly as a caretaker.[1] His spell ended on 1 June, as he was replaced by Paolo Tramezzani.

In 2021, Dionísio joined Renato Paiva's staff at Independiente del Valle in Ecuador, and followed him to Mexico's León and Brazil's Bahia, the latter one as his assistant.

References
  1. "Super League: Sion engage l'entraîneur Ricardo Dionisio Pereira". RTSSport.ch. 1 January 2020.
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