Career
Ricardo is a graduate in Sports Science from the Faculdade de Desporto da Universidade do Porto. He also holds the Fédération internationale de football association Football Emergency Certificate and the Fédération internationale de football association Football Fitness Coaching Certificate from Fédération internationale de football association. He holds the Personal Training Certificate from Holmes Place Academy, Paço de Arcos and has a detailed knowledge of Proprioception and Cryotherapy. He has worked as an instructor for Level 1 and Level 2 football fitness courses organised by Portuguese Football Federation.
He has also taken part in various football fitness courses organised by the Oman Football Association in coordination with Fédération internationale de football association. Portugal Ricardo began his coaching career as a fitness coach in 1999 with his hometown, Porto-based Primeira Liga club, Boavista F.C. where he worked with teams of different levels.
In his six-year long stay with the Porto-based club, he worked with Portuguese international and former Liverpool F.C. and Chelsea F.C. player, Raul Meireles. Bolivia He first moved out of Portugal in 2008 to South American nation, Bolivia where he was appointed to support the fitness staff under the Bolivian fitness coach, Jose Antonio Vaca of the Bolivia national football team under former Bolivian national team head coach, Erwin Sánchez.
In his two-year stint with the South American nation, he participated in various games as the fitness coach which also included 2010 Qualification which included a famous 6-1 victory over South American giants, Argentina, a team which included the likes of Lionel Messi and Javier Zanetti. Vietnam In 2010, he again moved out of Portugal and this time to Southeast Asia and more accurately to Vietnam where he signed a one-year contract with V.League 1 club, Becamex Binh Duong F.C. under then the head coach of the Thủ Dầu Một-based club, Ricardo Formosinho.
Oman In 2011, he moved to the Middle East and more accurately to Oman where he was appointed as the head fitness coordinator of the Oman Football Association to work as the fitness coach and rehabilitation specialist with national teams of various levels and also the Oman national beach soccer team and the Oman national futsal team
He was appointed as the fitness coach for the Oman national beach soccer team in 2015.