Deco

Staff

Staff record

staff is the non-playing subtype of person: people this export decoded as staff rather than as players. It is only one of the three places a career can live. Plenty of well-known managers have no staff row at all — some are stored as players, and many sit in person_unclassified, whose subtype the decoder could not determine. Whichever table a person is in, their jobs come from staff_history joined to job_type, which is the table below.

Current ability
160
Potential ability
180
Home reputation
160
Current reputation
160
World reputation
150
International appearances
75
Coaching qualification
1

Ability and the three reputations are the raw game figures, which run to roughly 200 rather than to 20 — they are printed exactly as stored and nothing is converted. coaching_qualification is a badge level with no lookup table in the export, so it is shown as the stored number and no name is invented for it.

Calculated at game start

Age at game start
47
Reputation
Continental 3.0 / 5 stars
Coaching style
General
Preferred mentality
Balanced
Preferred playing style
Standard
Preferred pressing style
More Urgent
Coaching category scores calculated by the game
CategoryScoreStars
Quickness43 / 1002.5 / 5
Strength43 / 1002.5 / 5
GK shot stopping31 / 1002.0 / 5
Defending (tactical)56 / 1003.0 / 5
Defending (technical)55 / 1003.0 / 5
Possession (tactical)63 / 1003.5 / 5
Possession (technical)61 / 1003.5 / 5
Attacking (tactical)58 / 1003.0 / 5
Attacking (technical)57 / 1003.0 / 5
Overall51 / 1003.0 / 5

Football Manager's own game-start calculations from the attributes above, ported from the game's rules by the enriched overlay (method in each value's tooltip). Coaching scores use the game's FM22 training categories applied to every release and leave out the secondary-job and injury reductions; a dash is a value the rule had no input for, and board members have no reputation label.

Appearance

Ethnicity code
1
Hair colour code
15
Hair length code
6
Skin tone code
6

Raw codes from the source. The export carries no lookup table for any of them, so they are shown as stored and are not given names.

Non-playing ability

Judging player ability 18
Judging player potential 18
Judging staff ability 14
Analysing data 12
Tactical knowledge 13
Hardness of training 11
Youngsters 15
Physiotherapy 2
Injury management 3
Motivating 14
People management 16
Discipline 11
Mind games 12
Determination 17
Eccentricity 5
Versatility 15
Buying players 13
Negotiating 17

18 of 26 values recorded from staff_ability. Not recorded: Judging team data, Presenting data, Coaching, Coaching technique, Patience, Business, Resources, Interference.

Coaching

Coaching Coaching: 6 of 6 values recorded, plotted on a 1 to 20 scale. Coaching: 6 of 6 values recorded, plotted on a 1 to 20 scale.
6 of 6 recorded
Coaching — every value plotted above, plus the ones that are not recorded.
AttributeValue
Attacking 9
Defending 8
Technical 11
Tactical 12
Mental 11
Fitness 5
Attacking 9
Defending 8
Technical 11
Tactical 12
Mental 11
Fitness 5

6 of 6 values recorded from staff_coaching.

Goalkeeping coaching

Goalkeeper shot stopping 1

1 of 3 values recorded from staff_coaching. Not recorded: Goalkeeper handling, Goalkeeper distribution.

Tactical style

The tactical preferences this person brings to a side, on the same 1 to 20 scale.

Attacking 12
Directness 8
Tempo 8
Width 5
Depth 9
Pressing 18
Flexibility 15
Squad rotation 15
Set pieces 10
Dirtiness allowance 15

10 of 17 values recorded from staff_tactical_style. Not recorded: Sitting back, Marking, Offside, Use of playmaker, Use of subs, Free roles, Flamboyancy.

Career spells

Marked current: 4 of 16 spells. A spell counts as current when date_left is empty or falls in the future — the source records plenty of long-finished spells with no end date, so more than one spell can carry the mark.

Career spells from staff_history, in the order the export wrote them.
ClubRoleFromToStatus
Nacional Atlético Clube (SP) Player 1995-01-01 1996-01-01 Ended
Sport Club Corinthians Paulista Player 1996-01-01 1997-07-01 Ended
Sport Club Santa Rita Player 1997-07-01 1997-07-02 Ended
Centro Sportivo Alagoano Player 1997-07-02 1998-01-03 Ended
Futebol Clube de Alverca - SAD Player 1998-01-03 1999-01-01 Ended
Sport Comércio e Salgueiros Player 1999-01-01 1999-01-02 Ended
Futebol Clube do Porto Player 1999-01-02 — Current
Barcelona Player 2004-07-01 2008-07-01 Ended
Chelsea Player 2008-07-01 2010-08-06 Ended
Fluminense Football Club Player 2010-08-13 — Current
União Desportiva Oliveirense Owner 2018-07-19 2018-12-31 Ended
Esporte Clube Primavera SAF Director 2020-01-17 2021-10-07 Ended
Barcelona Scout 2021-10-08 2023-06-30 Ended
Barcelona Chief Scout 2023-06-25 2023-08-16 Ended
Barcelona Director of Football 2023-08-16 — Current
Barcelona Director of Football 2023-08-16 — Current

National-team spells

No national-team spells are recorded in person_nation_contract for this person.

Club contract

Joined
2021-10-08
Contract start
2023-08-16
Expires
2026-06-30
Weekly wage
£14,959

Squad numbers

Squad numbers from club_squad_number, keyed on team_uid.
TeamNumber
Team 1708 —

Languages

Languages from person_language.
LanguageFirst languageProficiency
Portuguese Yes —

Retirement

Retirement facts from person_retirement.
TypeDate
Total player retirement 2013-08-26

Relations and preferences

Liked clubs

Liked people

PersonRating
Felipão 75
Edmílson 75
— 75
Paulo Araújo 75
— 65
José Mário dos Santos Mourinho Félix 60
— 50
— 50

Disliked people

Other relations

Typed relations from person_other_relation.
Target typeTargetRating
nation (object type 8) Brazil 100
nation (object type 8) Brazil 100
— — 100

Personal information

Known as
Deco
Date of birth
1977-08-27
Nationality
Portugal
Joined current club
2021-10-08

Personality

Personality is stored on the same 1–20 scale as the attributes, and is shown exactly as recorded. A dash is a value the export did not record, which is not a zero.

Adaptability 13
Ambition 12
Controversy 6
Loyalty 15
Pressure 16
Professionalism 15
Sportsmanship 12
Temperament 13