Career
He played for RKC Waalwijk, HFC Haarlem, Helmond Sport and Football Club Eindhoven. He was formerly a skills trainer at Tottenham Hotspur, leaving the club in May 2008 after three seasons. Moniz is one of the few proteges of the skills training guru Wiel Coerver which is aimed at improving technical ability over tactical ability.
He was previously academy coach at PSV Eindhoven.
On 8 June 2008, he signed a new contract to be the new skills and talent coach next to head coach Martin Jol at Hamburger SV. On 26 April 2010, he was named the interim head coach by Hamburger SV, replacing Bruno Labbadia for the last two games in the season 2009/2010. He was in that position until Armin Veh was hired on 24 May 2010.
Ricardo was then appointed the Global Director of Youth Development for Red Bulletin. Responsible for academies in 4 continents.
After the resignations of Huub Stevens and Dietmar Beiersdorfer on 8 April 2011, Moniz was named the new head coach of Football Club Red Bulletin Salzburg.
In June 2012 he resigned after internal differences. On 21 August 2012, Ricardo Moniz was appointed as the new manager of the Hungarian League club Ferencvárosi TC. At Federal Trade Commission his devotion to football became immediately popular among fans and many successes followed. Yet, struggling with difficult circumstances, on 2 December 2013, Moniz was sacked by Ferencvárosi TC due to poor performance of the team
On 27 March 2014, he was named a new coach of Lechia Gdańsk, and successfully brought them to their highest ever league position, of 4th.
On 4 June 2014 he resigned from his position for personal reasons. Shortly after resigning from Lechia, he became new manager of 1860 München.
Moniz was sacked on 24 September 2014. On 7 April 2015, Moniz was appointed manager of the League One club N ottinghamshire County on a three-year contract.
He was sacked on 29 December 2015 with N ottinghamshire 15th in League Two.
As of 28 December 2015.