Antonio Manuel Fonseca... speaks Portuguese and English... earned his Canada Soccer Coaching B Diploma in 2003 and his Canada Soccer Coaching A Diploma in 2010...

For Country

represented Portugal...

For Sport

served as head coach of Vancouver Whitecaps FC (starting in 2002)... served as a coach in Canada Soccer’s men’s national and men’s national youth program from 2006 to 2012 (he was hired as one of Canada’s staff coaches in  2008)... served as Canada Soccer’s Director of High Performance (2011-12), Technical Director (November 2012 to September 2016), and again Director of High Performance (September 2016 until March 2017)... served on Canada’s coaching staff at the 2007 CONCACAF Gold Cup (Canada reached the semifinal)... served on Canada’s coaching staff when the team finished third at the 2008 CONCACAF Men’s Olympic Qualifying Tournament... served as Canada’s youth coach at the 2009 CONCACAF Men’s Under-20 Championship... served on Canada’s coaching staff when the team reached the quarter-final stage of the 2009 CONCACAF Gold Cup... served as Canada’s youth coach at the VIes Jeux de la Francophonie Lebanon 2009... served as Canada’s assistant coach at the 2011 CONCACAF Gold Cup... served as Canada’s assistant coach during FIFA World Cup Qualifiers in 2011 and 2012 (Canada was eliminated on the final day of the CONCACAF semi-final stage)... served as Canada’s head coach at 2012 CONCACAF Men’s Olympic Qualifying Tournament... served on CONCACAF’s Technical Committee...