Pacheco made 25 appearances for the Portuguese national team, including 1 1 for Porto, 13 for Sporting Lisbon and 1 for setubal. His first international match was a friendly match with the former West Germany on February 23rd, 1983, and Portugal ended up with 65438. His last international match was in September 1990, 12, and he drew 0-0 with Finland in the European Cup qualifiers 1992. During his time with the national team, the defensive midfielder failed to score a goal. Pacheco led boavista to face Dortmund in the Champions League in 200 1 2002. 1993, Pacheco coached Pakos Ferreira in Portugal as a coach and player, and won the sixth place in the Portuguese Super League. Then in 1994, Pacheco was poached by Rio Avi, where Pacheco helped the team reach the semi-finals of the Portuguese Cup as head coach and player. From 65438 to 0996, Pacheco officially hung up his boots and independently coached Portuguese upstart guimaraes. After coaching guimaraes for two years, Pacheco led his team to win the fifth and third place in the league and participated in many European competitions such as the UEFA Cup. From 65438 to 0998, Pacheco accepted the invitation of boavista, one of the Portuguese "Four Tigers", and he reached the peak of his coaching career in this club. In the first season, boavista defeated traditional Portuguese super teams such as Benfica and Sporting Lisbon, and won the runner-up in the Portuguese Super League at one fell swoop, qualifying for the European Champions Cup for the first time in history. Pacheco coached boavista from 1998 to 2004, which was the most glorious period in the history of boavista. Especially at 200 1, Pacheco led his team to beat Porto and other giants and won the Portuguese Super League title, which was the first top league title in boavista's history, and Pacheco made history. It is worth mentioning that Pacheco also won the reputation of "Mourinho's nemesis" during his coaching in boavista. Pacheco gained the upper hand in many direct confrontations with the Magic Bird, which also made Mourinho very angry and often provoked a war of words in public. Pacheco once publicly criticized Mourinho as a "psychopath" and laughed at Mourinho's "can't afford to lose", so the two became enemies. So far, Pacheco is also one of the two coaches with the highest winning percentage against Mourinho (the other is the current coach of Inter Milan Benitez). In 2009, the Saudi giant Al-Shabaab hired Pacheco. Pacheco led the team to win the King's Cup in Fahdi and reached the AFC Champions League 16 when he took office. 20 10, Al-Shabaab made persistent efforts and broke into the AFC Champions League semi-finals. 20 10 in may, pacheco resigned as head coach for family reasons.