Background
He was born in São Paulo Vicente, Cape Verde and is the first coach from Cabo Verde that has a Union of European Football Associations Pro License.
He was born in São Paulo Vicente, Cape Verde and is the first coach from Cabo Verde that has a Union of European Football Associations Pro License.
He has had a long career as a professional soccer player both in Portugal and the Netherlands having played over 500 matches. Nascimento started his career in Portugal. He turned professional at the age of 17 representing Vitória Setúbal and Vitória Guimarães a few years later.
In season "91-"92 he deciced to join the team of RKC Waalwijk, a Premier League football club in the Netherlands.
He stayed there one season, the following two seasons he was signed by Roda JC. lieutenant was in this period of time he was elected for the national team of Portugal. In 1994 he was transferred to Football Club Utrecht.
Here David Nascimento played 4 seasons and was of substantial worth to his team In season "98-"99 coach Martin Jol invited him to represent RKC Waalwijk and made him team captain.
Three seasons later he went to Royal Bank of Canada Roosendaal, a year later Sparta Rotterdam welcomed the defender.
At Sparta Rotterdam he ended his career as a professional football player at the age of 38 having played over 500 official matches. Having ended his career as professional soccer player David Nascimento started in season 2004-2005 as coach of the C Juveniles of Sparta Rotterdam. At the end of this season coaches David Nascimento en Adri van Tiggelen took over from Sparta coach Mike Snoei and were asked to lead Sparta Rotterdam to promotion to the so-called Eredivisie, the Dutch Premier League.
The next season David Nascimento was a trainee of coach Louis van Gaal at Arizona Alkmaar.
In season 2006-2007 Nascimento became coach of Football Club Utrecht under 18 with which he ended in second place in the national competition for under 18 teams. Also he was appointed to coach assistant in the first team by manager Foeke Booy where he stayed until the end of 2008.
In 2009 David Nascimento received the highest coaching diploma Coach Betaald Voetbal (Uefa Pro). On 7 May 2014, Cypriot side APOEL appointed Nascimento as the club"s new technical director
On 27 August 2014, his contract with APOEL was terminated by mutual consent.