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Which team did the player Paulo Bento belong to in 2002?
Paulo Bento Paulo Jorge Gomes Bento ( ; born 20 June 1969 ) is a Portuguese retired footballer , and the current manager of the South Korea national team . A defensive midfielder with tackling ability and workrate as his main assets , he played for two of the major three teams in his country , amassing Primeira Liga totals of 284 matches and 16 goals over 11 seasons , and also spent four years in Spain . He represented the Portuguese national team in one World Cup and one European Championship . Bento took up a coaching career in 2005 , managing Sporting for four years and four months , with relative success , and also being in charge of the national team in two major tournaments . Playing career . Born in Lisbon , Bento played professionally in his homeland for C.F . Estrela da Amadora , Vitória de Guimarães and S.L . Benfica , and had a four-year abroad spell with Real Oviedo , helping the Spanish club always retain its La Liga status before moving to Sporting CP , where he finished his career as a player . With the latter , he was part of the star-studded team that achieved the double in 2002 under the direction of Laszlo Bölöni , contributing with 31 games and one goal in the Primeira Liga and playing alongside Mário Jardel and João Vieira Pinto among others . Bento earned 35 caps for the Portugal national team , his first game coming on 15 January 1992 in a 0–0 draw with Spain and his last being the 0–1 loss to South Korea on 14 June 2002 in the 2002 FIFA World Cup . He also played at UEFA Euro 2000 where , along with teammates Abel Xavier – who played with him at Oviedo for two seasons – and Nuno Gomes , he was suspended ( in Bentos case for five months ) due to bad behaviour , during the semi-final loss with France . Coaching career . Sporting . After an emotional 2004 retirement , aged 35 , Bento got the job of Sportings youth team coach . He won the junior championship in 2005 , and developed a base to the future . After the sacking of José Peseiro midway through 2005–06 season , he was promoted to first-team duties in spite of being relatively inexperienced . Despite a slow start , Bento managed an impressive turnaround of Sportings fortunes in the second half of the campaign , as a series of ten consecutive wins placed them within distance of leaders and eventual league champions FC Porto , as the former went on to rank second in that and the following seasons , achieving direct qualification to the UEFA Champions League . He was responsible for bringing youth products Nani , João Moutinho and Miguel Veloso into the spotlight . In June 2007 , Bento signed a two-year contract extension . Sporting had a turbulent pre-season in preparation for 2007–08 , with defense mainstays Rodrigo Tello and Marco Caneira leaving the club while Portuguese international goalkeeper Ricardo was sold to Real Betis . With little resources to invest , the club brought Eastern promises – Marat Izmailov , Vladimir Stojković and Simon Vukčević – aboard . After a very irregular season , Bento managed to lead Sporting to an unprecedented third consecutive qualification for the Champions League , with another second-place finish in spite of spending most of the year below third place , pipping Guimarães and Benfica in the final matchday . He also retained the Taça de Portugal , beating Porto in the final ( 2–0 after extra time ) after knocking-out eternal rivals Benfica in the last-four stage with a 5–3 triumph . Bentos team broke a number of long-standing club records , including the first season without home defeats since 1987 , the first capture of back-to-back Portuguese cups since 1974 and the first time since 1962 that Sporting finished three consecutive campaigns in the top two league positions . At the age of 38 , he also became only the fifth manager in the history of Portuguese football to win back-to-back Portuguese cups , alongside the likes of Janos Biri , John Mortimore or José Maria Pedroto . On 15 July 2008 , The Sun and The Daily Telegraph reported that Manchester United were planning to hire Bento ( reportedly Cristiano Ronaldos friend and former teammate ) as manager Alex Fergusons new assistant after the departure of previous number two Carlos Queiroz to manage the Portuguese national team . He quickly denied any speculation , and reaffirmed his intention to stay at Sporting . On 16 August 2008 , Bento managed Sporting to a 2–0 victory in the Supertaça Cândido de Oliveira over champions Porto , at the opening of the new season . One of the players that were kept in the team despite heavy criticism , Rui Patrício , was a key element and saved a penalty from Lucho González during the second half ; this win raised the managers tally in cup finals against counterpart Jesualdo Ferreira to 3–0 ( 2007 and 2008 Supercups , and the 2008 Portuguese Cup ) , and it also marked the first ever capture of back-to-back Portuguese Supercups in the Lions history , thus adding to the list of records broken during his tenure . Already the second-most successful coach in the history of the club in terms of trophies won , only surpassed by Josef Szabo , Bento gained the nickname Papa-Taças ( roughly translated as cup-eater ) as a consequence of the four pieces of silverware added to Sportings cabinet under his command . On 4 November 2008 , Bento led Sporting to a 1–0 home win over FC Shakhtar Donetsk , therefore mathematically securing automatic qualification for the knockout stages of the Champions League for the first time in their history . In the process , his team also broke the clubs record number of points in UEFAs main competition ( nine ) and remarkably did so with two matches to spare , becoming the first team to qualify from the group phase ( alongside FC Barcelona , from the same group ) . Later , Bento also lead Sporting to break the record for most goals suffered by a team in a Champions League knockout round , after a 1–12 aggregate ousting at the hands of FC Bayern Munich at the round-of-16 . In the league , another second place to Porto befell , with the season also featuring the controversial Taça da Liga final loss against Benfica , on penalties . That Champions League ousting marked the beginning of fan discontent towards Bento , especially regarding the teams playing style ( which was perceived as becoming dull and unattractive ) as presidential elections were to be held . Supported by the winning candidate José Eduardo Bettencourt , he signed a two-year contract extension ; in spite of maintaining the same base squad and adding the talent of Felipe Caicedo or Matías Fernández , Sporting was unable to start the new campaign brightly : knocked out in the Champions League playoff round by ACF Fiorentina on away goals , the sides form slumped quickly and after nine matches they found themselves mired in seventh place , 12 points behind leaders S.C . Braga . After a 1–1 home draw in the Europa League group stage against FK Ventspils on 5 November 2009 , and facing considerable pressure to step down , Bento resigned . Portugal . On 20 September 2010 , following Queirozs dismissal after a poor start to the Euro 2012 qualifying campaign , Bento was named his successor , initially until the last match of that stage . His first game in charge came on 8 October , a 3–1 win against Denmark in Porto . On 17 November 2010 , Portugal defeated World Cup champions Spain 4–0 in Lisbon , imposing the largest defeat to its Iberian neighbours since 13 June 1963 ( 2–6 against Scotland , in another friendly ) . He led the national team to the Euro 2012 semi-finals in Poland and Ukraine , where they narrowly lost to eventual champions Spain on penalties . After a second-place finish in Group F in the 2014 World Cup qualifiers , Bento led Portugal to a 4–2 aggregate win over Sweden in the playoffs , securing a spot at the finals in Brazil . On 9 April 2014 , he extended his contract until after Euro 2016 , but the national team exited in the World Cups group stage in spite of a 2–1 success against Ghana in the last match , with the United States progressing on goal difference instead . On 11 September 2014 , after the Euro 2016 qualifying campaign began with a 0–1 home defeat to Albania , the Portuguese Football Federation announced Bentos dismissal . Cruzeiro . On 11 May 2016 , Bento moved abroad for the first time in his managerial career , taking the helm at Brazils Cruzeiro Esporte Clube . His first game , ten days later , was a 2–2 draw at home to Figueirense FC which continued his sides winless start to the season . On 25 July 2016 , Cruzeiro announced that Bento had resigned from the club following a 1–2 home defeat against Sport Recife . Olympiacos . On 11 August 2016 , Bento became the head coach of Superleague Greece title holders Olympiacos FC . He was sacked on 6 March 2017 with the team seven points clear at the top of the table and qualified for the semi-finals of the domestic cup and last 16 of the Europa League , mainly due to a string of poor performances in official competitions , a three-game losing streak in the league with no goals scored and various press conference comments targeting the weakness of certain squad members and the roster as a whole . Chongqing Dangdai Lifan . On 11 December 2017 , Bento was appointed manager at Chongqing Dangdai Lifan FC . The following 22 July , he was relieved of his duties due to poor results . South Korea . On 17 August 2018 , Bento was appointed as the manager of the South Korea national team , with a contract to run up to and including the 2022 World Cup . At the 2019 AFC Asian Cup in the United Arab Emirates , the side were eliminated 1–0 in the quarter-finals by eventual champions Qatar . Bento led his team to the conquest of the 2019 EAFF E-1 Football Championship , after a 1–0 defeat of Japan . This marked the third time they won the tournament , this being the second consecutive victory over that opposition . Honours . Player . Estrela Amadora - Taça de Portugal : 1989–90 Benfica - Taça de Portugal : 1995–96 Sporting - Primeira Liga : 2001–02 - Taça de Portugal : 2001–02 - Supertaça Cândido de Oliveira : 2002 Manager . Sporting - Taça de Portugal : 2006–07 , 2007–08 - Supertaça Cândido de Oliveira : 2007 , 2008 - Taça da Liga runner-up : 2007–08 , 2008–09 Olympiacos - Superleague Greece : 2016–17 South Korea - EAFF E-1 Football Championship : 2019 Individual - CNID Breakthrough Coach : 2005–06 External links . - National team data