.jpg) Peseiro as manager ofBraga in 2016 | |||||||||||||||||
| Personal information | |||||||||||||||||
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| Full name | José Vítor dos Santos Peseiro[1] | ||||||||||||||||
| Date of birth | (1960-04-04)4 April 1960 (age 65)[1] | ||||||||||||||||
| Place of birth | Coruche, Portugal[1] | ||||||||||||||||
| Position | Forward | ||||||||||||||||
| Youth career | |||||||||||||||||
| 1977–1979 | Coruchense | ||||||||||||||||
| Senior career* | |||||||||||||||||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) | ||||||||||||||
| 1979–1980 | Cartaxo | ||||||||||||||||
| 1980–1982 | Coruchense | ||||||||||||||||
| 1982–1983 | Oriental | ||||||||||||||||
| 1983–1984 | Amora | 6 | (0) | ||||||||||||||
| 1984–1987 | Oriental | 51 | (3) | ||||||||||||||
| 1987–1988 | Samora Correia | 33 | (7) | ||||||||||||||
| 1988–1989 | Torreense | 5 | (1) | ||||||||||||||
| 1989–1991 | União Santarém | ||||||||||||||||
| 1991–1992 | Alcanenense | ||||||||||||||||
| 1992–1994 | União Santarém | ||||||||||||||||
| Managerial career | |||||||||||||||||
| 1992–1994 | União Santarém | ||||||||||||||||
| 1994–1996 | União Montemor | ||||||||||||||||
| 1996–1999 | Oriental | ||||||||||||||||
| 1999–2003 | Nacional | ||||||||||||||||
| 2003–2004 | Real Madrid (assistant) | ||||||||||||||||
| 2004–2005 | Sporting CP | ||||||||||||||||
| 2006–2007 | Al Hilal | ||||||||||||||||
| 2007–2008 | Panathinaikos | ||||||||||||||||
| 2008 | Rapid București | ||||||||||||||||
| 2008–2009 | Rapid București | ||||||||||||||||
| 2009–2011 | Saudi Arabia | ||||||||||||||||
| 2012–2013 | Braga | ||||||||||||||||
| 2013–2015 | Al Wahda | ||||||||||||||||
| 2015–2016 | Al Ahly | ||||||||||||||||
| 2016 | Porto | ||||||||||||||||
| 2016 | Braga | ||||||||||||||||
| 2017 | Sharjah | ||||||||||||||||
| 2018 | Vitória Guimarães | ||||||||||||||||
| 2018 | Sporting CP | ||||||||||||||||
| 2020–2021 | Venezuela | ||||||||||||||||
| 2022–2024 | Nigeria | ||||||||||||||||
| 2025 | Zamalek | ||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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| * Club domestic league appearances and goals | |||||||||||||||||
José Vítor dos Santos PeseiroMON (born 4 April 1960) is a Portuguesefootballmanager and former player who played as aforward.
After an unassuming career as a player, he went on to coach several clubs in his country, includingSporting CP – which he took to the2005 UEFA Cup final[2]– andPorto. He also worked extensively in Arab nations, being in charge of theSaudi Arabia national team. He also finished second at the2023 Africa Cup of Nations withNigeria.
Born inCoruche,Santarém District, Peseiro never played in higher than theSegunda Liga as a professional, starting out at Sport Lisboa e Cartaxo in 1979. In that competition, he representedAmora,Oriental,Samora Correia andTorreense for a total of five seasons.[3]
34-year-old Peseiro retired at the end of the 1993–94 season in thefourth division, with local clubUnião de Santarém.[4]
Peseiro spent his first eight years as a manager in thethird and fourth tiers of Portuguese football, starting out as aplayer-coach at his last team.[4] In summer 1999, he was appointed atNacional, which he helped get promoted to thePrimeira Liga in justthree seasons.[5][6] In2002–03, he led the team to a final eleventh position.[7]
In2003–04, Peseiro assistedCarlos Queiroz atReal Madrid.[8] At the end of the campaign, after the team lost a considerable advantage on the table to be finally surpassed byValencia,Barcelona andDeportivo de La Coruña, the pair was sacked,[9] and the latter returned to his assistant position inManchester United.
Peseiro signed withSporting CP for2004–05. After collecting three losses and two draws in his first nine games in charge, the side eventually finished in third place with 61 points, four behind championsBenfica;[10] additionally, he coached the team to arunner-up run in theUEFA Cup after disposing of the likes ofFeyenoord,Middlesbrough andNewcastle United.The final was played at theEstádio José Alvalade, and after a 1–0 lead athalf-time the hosts eventually succumbed toCSKA Moscow 3–1.[2]
At the start of the2005–06 season, the Lions wereousted from theUEFA Champions League byUdinese,[11] and after being relegated to the UEFA Cup they wereimmediately knocked out byHalmstad 4–4 on aggregate after a 2–3 home loss.[12][13] On 16 October 2005, following a 0–1 home defeat toAcadémica de Coimbra that saw Sporting sink to the seventh position, he resigned.[14][15]
In the 2007 off-season, Peseiro was named manager ofPanathinaikos.[16] Afterfailing to win theSuper League Greece and alsolosing 4–0 to neighbouringOlympiacos in thedomestic cup, he was forced to step down.[17][18]
In June 2008, Peseiro signed a three-year contract with Romanian clubRapid București. On 2 October, after beingeliminated from the UEFA Cup byVfL Wolfsburg, he was sacked[19] only to be reinstated a few days later;[20] he eventually resigned on 12 January 2009, after failing to agree on a new deal.[21]
Peseiro succeededNasser Al-Johar at the helm of theSaudi Arabia national team in 2009, during the2010 FIFA World Cupqualifying campaign. His debut took place on 28 March, and it ended with a 2–1 away win overIran which was the former's first ever victory in that country and the latter's first loss in nearly 40 home games;[22] eventually, the nation failed to reach the finals in South Africa after losing toBahrain on theaway goals rule,[23] and on 10 January 2011 he was relieved of his duties following a 2–1 defeat againstSyria in the2011 AFC Asian Cup opener.[24]
On 3 June 2012, Peseiro was appointed atBraga.[25] His first major signing wasPortuguese internationalRúben Micael,[26] and he qualified the club for thegroup stage of the Champions League for the second time in its history, after disposing of Udinese onpenalties.[27][28]
At the end ofthe campaign, in spite ofwinning theTaça da Liga and ranking fourth in the league, Braga and Peseiro reached an agreement to terminate the manager's contract.[29]
From 11 November 2013 to 11 January 2015, Peseiro worked withAl Wahda in theUAE Pro League. On 9 October of the latter year,Al Ahly announced his signing; upon hearing the news, fans of the latter protested against the decision based on his weakrésumé.[30][31]
On 18 January 2016, after cutting ties with the Egyptian side, Peseiro replacedJulen Lopetegui atPorto.[32] Even though the third position they occupied at the time of the Spaniard's dismissal wasstill secured, he collected more losses than his predecessor,[33] and also lostthe final of theTaça de Portugal to his former team Braga, on penalties.[34]
On 6 June 2016, Peseiro signed a two-year deal with Braga.[35] On 14 December, following consecutive home defeats that resulted in elimination from theEuropa League and thePortuguese Cup, respectively at the hands ofShakhtar Donetsk (4–2) andCovilhã (2–1), he was fired.[36]
Peseiro returned to the UAE in January 2017 withSharjah, and was sacked nine months later after a poor start to thenew season.[37] The following February, he went home to sign a contract atVitória de Guimarães until June 2019,[38] which he rescinded by mutual agreement a year early.[39]
In July 2018, Peseiro returned to Sporting after 13 years away, assuming the reins at a club that had lost several key players following fan violence, and whose previous managerSiniša Mihajlović lasted just nine days in the job.[40] On 1 November, following poor overall performances and a 1–2 home loss againstEstoril in thegroup stage of theTaça da Liga, he was relieved of his duties.[41]
Peseiro returned to national team duties on 4 February 2020, being appointed byVenezuela after the resignation ofRafael Dudamel.[42] He made his debut on 9 October in a 3–0 loss away toColombia in2022 FIFA World Cupqualification; the opponents were led by compatriotCarlos Queiroz.[43]
At the2021 Copa América in Brazil, Venezuela was eliminated from thegroup stage with two draws and two defeats; Peseiro was praised by punditTim Vickery for achieving those results, despite a spate ofCOVID-19 infections and virus-related travel restrictions that kept keyforwardSalomón Rondón in China.[44] He resigned in August, having not been paid for over a year amidst the South American country'seconomic crisis.[45]
On 29 December 2021, Peseiro reached a verbal agreement with theNigeria Football Federation to replaceGernot Rohr at the helm ofthe national team.[46] He was supposed to travel to the2021 Africa Cup of Nations in Cameroon, but strictly as an "observer" whileinterim managerAugustine Eguavoen led the side to the last 16;[47] the deal eventually fell through, as Eguavoen was retained at the end of the tournament.[48]
On 15 May 2022, Peseiro was finally appointed as the new head coach.[49] He finished runner-up in the2023 Africa Cup of Nations, losing 2–1 to hostsIvory Coast;[50] subsequently, he was awarded theOrder of the Niger by presidentBola Tinubu.[51]
Peseiro left his position on 1 March 2024.[52]
Peseiro returned to both club duties and theEgyptian Premier League on 14 February 2025, signing a one-and-a-half-year contract atZamalek.[53][54] In his first three matches in charge, he managed three 1–1 draws.[55] He was dismissed on 7 May, with the team third inthe league and inthe final of theEgypt Cup.[56][57]
| Team | Nat | From | To | Record | Ref. | |||||||
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| G | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Win % | |||||
| Oriental |  | 29 October 1996 | 2 June 1999 | 103 | 51 | 26 | 26 | 136 | 103 | +33 | 049.51 | [58] |
| Nacional | | 2 June 1999 | 25 June 2003 | 148 | 68 | 40 | 40 | 234 | 182 | +52 | 045.95 | [59] |
| Sporting CP | | 3 June 2004 | 18 October 2005 | 63 | 34 | 10 | 19 | 118 | 74 | +44 | 053.97 | [60] |
| Al Hilal |  | 4 June 2006 | 10 January 2007 | 14 | 10 | 2 | 2 | 22 | 10 | +12 | 071.43 | [61] |
| Panathinaikos |  | 5 June 2007 | 15 May 2008 | 46 | 30 | 10 | 6 | 74 | 32 | +42 | 065.22 | [62] |
| Rapid București |  | 3 June 2008 | 2 October 2008 | 11 | 4 | 2 | 5 | 12 | 11 | +1 | 036.36 | [63] |
| Rapid București | | 9 October 2008 | 12 January 2009 | 9 | 6 | 3 | 0 | 17 | 8 | +9 | 066.67 | [63] |
| Saudi Arabia | | 18 February 2009 | 10 January 2011 | 31 | 12 | 12 | 7 | 35 | 22 | +13 | 038.71 | [64] |
| Braga | | 3 June 2012 | 29 May 2013 | 47 | 23 | 8 | 16 | 84 | 64 | +20 | 048.94 | [65] |
| Al Wahda |  | 11 November 2013 | 11 January 2015 | 43 | 20 | 13 | 10 | 77 | 61 | +16 | 046.51 | [66] |
| Al Ahly |  | 9 October 2015 | 18 January 2016 | 12 | 8 | 2 | 2 | 22 | 10 | +12 | 066.67 | [67] |
| Porto | | 21 January 2016 | 30 May 2016 | 22 | 13 | 1 | 8 | 38 | 26 | +12 | 059.09 | [68] |
| Braga | | 6 June 2016 | 15 December 2016 | 23 | 11 | 5 | 7 | 39 | 30 | +9 | 047.83 | [65] |
| Sharjah | | 1 January 2017 | 16 October 2017 | 21 | 3 | 8 | 10 | 24 | 36 | −12 | 014.29 | [69] |
| Vitória Guimarães | | 28 February 2018 | 16 May 2018 | 10 | 4 | 2 | 4 | 13 | 10 | +3 | 040.00 | [70] |
| Sporting CP | | 1 July 2018 | 1 November 2018 | 14 | 9 | 1 | 4 | 24 | 14 | +10 | 064.29 | [60] |
| Venezuela |  | 4 February 2020 | 20 August 2021 | 10 | 1 | 3 | 6 | 5 | 15 | −10 | 010.00 | [71] |
| Nigeria |  | 15 May 2022 | 1 March 2024 | 22 | 10 | 5 | 7 | 39 | 25 | +14 | 045.45 | |
| Zamalek | | 14 February 2025 | 7 May 2025 | 18 | 8 | 8 | 2 | 25 | 13 | +12 | 044.44 | |
| Total | 669 | 325 | 161 | 183 | 1,037 | 749 | +288 | 048.58 | — | |||
Nacional
Sporting CP
Braga
Al Ahly
Porto
Nigeria
Orders
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