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| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Manuel José de Jesus Silva | ||
| Date of birth | (1946-04-09)9 April 1946 (age 79) | ||
| Place of birth | Vila Real de Santo António, Portugal | ||
| Position | Midfielder | ||
| Youth career | |||
| 1962–1964 | Benfica | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1964–1965 | Benfica B | ||
| 1965–1969 | Benfica | 1 | (0) |
| 1965–1966 | →Sporting Covilhã (loan) | ||
| 1966–1967 | →Varzim (loan) | ||
| 1967–1968 | →Belenenses (loan) | ||
| 1969–1973 | União Tomar | 111 | (12) |
| 1973–1976 | Farense | 82 | (6) |
| 1976–1977 | Beira-Mar | 28 | (1) |
| 1977–1979 | Sporting Espinho | 27 | (2) |
| Managerial career | |||
| 1978–1982 | Sporting Espinho | ||
| 1982–1983 | Vitória Guimarães | ||
| 1983–1985 | Portimonense | ||
| 1985–1986 | Sporting CP | ||
| 1987–1989 | Braga | ||
| 1990 | Sporting CP | ||
| 1990–1991 | Sporting Espinho | ||
| 1991–1996 | Boavista | ||
| 1996 | Marítimo | ||
| 1997 | Benfica | ||
| 1999–2001 | União Leiria | ||
| 2001–2002 | Al Ahly | ||
| 2002–2003 | Belenenses | ||
| 2003–2009 | Al Ahly | ||
| 2009–2010 | Angola | ||
| 2010 | Al-Ittihad | ||
| 2011–2012 | Al Ahly | ||
| 2012 | Persepolis | ||
| * Club domestic league appearances and goals | |||
Manuel José de Jesus SilvaComM (born 9 April 1946), simply known asManuel José (Portuguese pronunciation:[mɐnuˈɛlʒuˈzɛ]), is a Portuguesefootballmanager.[1]
Some of the teams he has coached includeVitória de Guimarães,Sporting CP,Sporting de Braga,Boavista,Benfica,Al Ahly,Belenenses, and theAngola national team.[citation needed] He is the living coach with most games in thePrimeira Liga.[2][3]
He is regarded as one of the most successful club coaches inCAF competitions, having won the mainAfrican club tournament, theCAF Champions League, a record of four times and guiding his team to four consecutive CAF Champions League finals between 2005 and 2008, winning three of those finals. He has also won theCAF Super Cup in 2002, 2006, 2007 and 2009 and was the first manager to take an African team to the medal positions in theFIFA Club World Cup in 2006.
Manuel José first started to manageS.C. Espinho in 1978, where he gained promotion to the1979–80 Primeira Liga. His first notorious management spell was atVitória de Guimarães, which he coached during1982 and 1983, guiding them to their firstUEFA Cup after a 4th-place finish. The following season, he moved toPortimonense and in hissecond season there, he took the team to their highestPrimeira Liga place, 5th, qualifying them to the UEFA Cup. Moving toSporting CP in 1985, he was sacked in hissecond season, after a 6-game winless spree.
He is credited for discoveringLuís Figo while he was working with Sporting CP, a fact that he denies.[4] Some of his most famous matches in his Sporting CP career were a 7–1 win over arch rivalsBenfica, the widest win in theLisbon derby, and a 9–0 away win againstÍþróttabandalag Akraness, fromIceland, in the1986–87 UEFA Cup, a record that still remains as their biggest away win inUEFA competitions.[5] He moved toSporting de Braga where he couldn't manage to find the success he had found in his former teams. Again at Sporting CP in 1990, he was sacked that same year after being eliminated 1–2 intheir home stadium, for theTaça de Portugal, toMarítimo. After failing promotion to the1991–92 Primeira Liga, with his first club, Sporting de Espinho, he moved to Boavista where he won the Taça de Portugal in hisfirst season, and theSupertaça in hissecond one, also managing to lead them to the Taça de Portugal final in thesame year. After five seasons with Boavista, he signed with Marítimo in 1996, although he replacedPaulo Autuori as Benfica manager in the middle of the1996–97 season and finished in 3rd place. Despite his bad results, he remained for thenext season until a humiliating 3–1 defeat toRio Ave lead Benfica's direction to sack him.[6]
In November 1999, Manuel José replacedMário Reis as the manager ofUnião de Leiria. In 2001 he signed withEgyptian clubAl Ahly, with the main goal being to win theEgyptian Premier League. He marked his first victory with Al Ahly in a friendly game victory 1–0 overReal Madrid.[7] He accomplished the biggest win against the rivalsZamalek by 6–1 before he was sacked after failing to win theleague that year, but wonhis first African Champions League andAfrican Super Cup with a squad consisting mostly of promising young stars likeHossam Ghaly. He returned toPortugal to coach Belenenses in 2002, but left to sign again with Al Ahly the following year.
Since returning toAl Ahly, Manuel José helped give the team a record-breaking unbeaten run of 55 matches.[8] He also managed to qualify them for the African Champions League Final four consecutive times, in2005,2006,2007 and2008, winning all but the 2007 final, the first coach to achieve such a feat and bringing his tally to four CAF Champions League titles, making him the most successful manager of the competition. Moreover, he also won the CAF Super Cup in2006,2007 and2009, the Egyptian League five consecutive times,2004–05,2005–06,2006–07,2007–08 and2008–09, theEgypt Cup in2005–06 and2006–07 and theEgyptian Super Cup four consecutive times,2005,2006,2007 and2008.
Arguably his best period in Al-Ahly was the 2005–06 season when Manuel José accomplished theAfrican treble winning theCup, theLeague and theChampions League. Other successes that season include the triumphs in theNational Super Cup, theAfrican Super Cup and managing to take anAfrican team to their first ever podium in theClub World Cup. Al-Ahly only conceded three defeats in 2006, with two of them coming in the CAF Champions League and the other in the FIFA Club World Cup, in the first half of the 2006–07 season, meaning the team went undefeated the whole 2005–06 season, these achievements enabled José to win theCAF Coach of the Year award in 2006, becoming the first non-African to win the award while managing a club. Although reports were surfacing that he would be on the brink of taking over the Portugal national team afterLuiz Felipe Scolari's departure, thePortuguese Football Federation hired insteadCarlos Queiroz.[9] Manuel José was honoured by theEgyptianPresidentHosni Mubarak with the Medal of Sport of First Class for his contributions to Ahly and Egyptian Football on 24 December 2006 and with theOrdem do Mérito in 2008, byPortuguesePresidentAníbal Cavaco Silva.[10] On 13 May 2009 José was officially appointed by theAngolan Football Federation as thenational team's head coach with views on their participation in the2010 Africa Cup of Nations, whichAngola hosted. He penned a one-year contract and took over when he finished the season with Al-Ahly.[11]
Manuel José was awarded theGlobos de Ouro Best Portuguese Manager award in 2009 bySIC television network, on his fourth consecutive nomination.[12] After Angola's defeat, againstGhana, in the quarter-finals of the 2010 Africa Cup of Nations, he apologized the entireAngolan people for their premature elimination and left his post by mutual agreement.[13][14] On 31 May 2010Al-Ittihad officials hired the Portuguese coach and former Angola manager as their new head coach.[15] In December 2010 José resigned after eight consecutive draws that cost Ittihad their leadershipof the board, this marked the first time that José didn't complete a contract for the past 10 years.[16]
On 1 January 2011, Manuel José returned to Al Ahly signing a one-and-a-half-year contract.[17] Uppon his arrival to theCairo International Airport from Portugal, he was greeted by about 3,000 Al Ahly fans.[18] He had been pointed out as a coach likely to succeedHassan Shehata after he left theEgyptian managerial position in early June 2011.[19] However,Bob Bradley was chosen for the job. On 7 July 2011, José won his sixth Egyptian championship after recovering from a 6-point deficit to league leaders, rivals Zamalek, when his team was lying on the fourth place and finished ahead of Zamalek, the eventual runners-up, by 5 points.[20] During thePort Said Stadium disaster on 1 February 2012, he was punched and kicked but otherwise unhurt. He has stated that his relationship with the Egyptian people saved him from being killed.[21][22][23] Shortly after the clashes, Manuel José made a €47,000 donation to the Al-Ahly fund created to support the victims' families and attended thewake held in honour of the ones who had died, when he returned to Portugal he said he wanted to finish his career at the Egyptian club in remembrance of the lost souls.[24] He returned to Egypt a few days later, on 16 February.[25] He had lost against Espanyol, it was his last match with Al-Ahly, ending his career in coaching in Egypt. He had left after his contract has ended. He had held a press conference after the match stating that Al-Ahly department is trying to renew his contract but, he had refused as there is political unrest in Egypt and also for the stoppage of Football in the nation as he stated "Politics had corrupted football in Egypt" He is recognized as a football legend in Egypt by The Ultras fans either Zamlkawy or Ahlawy[26]
On 3 July 2012, Manuel José was named asPersepolis's head coach and signed a one-year contract with the club, replacingMustafa Denizli, who resigned from his position in June 2012 for personal reasons. On 7 December 2012, it was announced that Manuel José was no longer the team's head coach for the upcoming fixtures. On 10 December 2012, he was officially sacked by the club and was replaced byYahya Golmohammadi.
| Team | From | To | Record | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| G | W | D | L | Win % | GF | GA | +/- | |||
| Espinho | July 1978 | July 1982 | 120 | 47 | 33 | 40 | 039.17 | 135 | 137 | –2 |
| Vitória | July 1982 | May 1983 | 30 | 11 | 10 | 9 | 036.67 | 35 | 24 | +11 |
| Portimonense | June 1983 | July 1985 | 60 | 24 | 14 | 22 | 040.00 | 78 | 78 | 0 |
| Sporting CP | July 1985 | October 1986 | 40 | 23 | 10 | 7 | 057.50 | 91 | 42 | +49 |
| Braga | January 1987 | May 1989 | 48 | 13 | 22 | 13 | 027.08 | 54 | 66 | –12 |
| Sporting CP | May 1990 | November 1990 | 9 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 033.33 | 16 | 15 | +1 |
| Boavista | May 1991 | May 1996 | 170 | 77 | 45 | 48 | 045.29 | 236 | 169 | +67 |
| Marítimo | May 1996 | December 1996 | 20 | 7 | 3 | 10 | 035.00 | 25 | 20 | +5 |
| Benfica | January 1997 | July 1997 | 20 | 10 | 5 | 5 | 050.00 | 29 | 15 | +14 |
| União Leiria | November 1999 | May 2001 | 62 | 26 | 19 | 17 | 041.94 | 73 | 66 | +7 |
| Al Ahly | July 2001 | May 2002 | 37 | 26 | 7 | 4 | 070.27 | 68 | 27 | +41 |
| Belenenses | June 2002 | July 2003 | 34 | 11 | 10 | 13 | 032.35 | 47 | 48 | –1 |
| Al-Ahly | July 2003 | June 2009 | 169 | 129 | 27 | 13 | 076.33 | 279 | 97 | +182 |
| Angola | May 2009 | January 2010 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 025.00 | 6 | 5 | +1 |
| Al-Ittihad | May 2010 | December 2010 | 15 | 4 | 10 | 1 | 026.67 | 28 | 16 | +12 |
| Al Ahly | January 2011 | February 2012 | 15 | 11 | 3 | 1 | 073.33 | 28 | 12 | +16 |
| Persepolis | July 2012 | December 2012 | 17 | 5 | 6 | 6 | 029.41 | 20 | 17 | +3 |
| Total | 870 | 425 | 229 | 213 | 48.85% | 1248 | 854 | +394 | ||
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