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TotalEnergies CAF AFCON 2025: Know the Coach: Chiquinho Conde (Mozambique)

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Name: Chiquinho Conde

Place of birth: Mozambique

Age: 48

Current Team: Mozambique

Tenure: 2019 – to date

Former Mambas striker, Chiquinho Conde is entrusted with making history for his nation. Following a successful playing career in Portugal and the United States, Conde took up coaching in 2005 and worked his way up the ranks before assuming the head coach role of the Mambas in 2021.

 

Career Highlights

Conde enjoyed a successful playing career that he is now hoping to replicae in his coaching journey.

A goal poacher in his playing days, Conde scored 29 in his prime while on the books of Portuguese side, Belenenses. Conde played as a striker from 1986 to 2005 before he turned to coaching.

As a coach, he successfully led Mozambique to a TotalEnergies CAF AFOCN qualification to Cote d’Ivoire last year, with Morocco 2025 being a second consecutive qualification for Mozambique under the guidance of Conde.

 

Coaching Style

Known for his strong character and ability to frustrate opponents with resolute defense, Conde leads Mozambique to the continental finals with the aim of rewriting the nation’s TotalEnergies CAF AFCON history.

 

TotalEnergies CAF AFCON Experience

This will be Conde’s second experience of Africa’s biggest football competition when he guides the Mambas to their sixth TotalEnergies CAF AFCON appearance in Morocco.

 

Impact on the Team

Since taking over in 2019, Angola has been on an impressive rise with solid performances at the TotalEnergies CAF Africa Cup of Nations Cote d’Ivoire 2023, a recent COSAFA Cup title and qualification to a second successive TotalEnergies CAF AFCON Morocco 2025. 

 

Fun Fact: 

Conde is one of Mozambique’s prolific exports. Throughout his playing career, he netted 111 times in total while playing his club football in Portugal.

 

Conclusion

With this being the coach’s second TotalEnergies CAF CHAN competition, he will be hoping to not only advance but secure the title for the first time ever for a COSAFA nation.