José Morais

José Morais
Personal information
Full name José Manuel Ferreira de Morais
Date of birth (1965-07-27) 27 July 1965
Place of birth Lisbon, Portugal
Playing position Midfielder
Club information
Current team
Antalyaspor (Manager)
Teams managed
Years Team
2000–2001 Benfica (youth)
2001–2002 Westfalia Herne
2002 Dresdner SC
2003–2004 Porto (assistant)
2004 C.D. Santa Clara
2005 Assyriska Föreningen
2007 Al Hazm
2008 Stade Tunisien
2008 Yemen
2008–2009 Espérance
2009–2010 Inter Milan (assistant)
2010–2013 Real Madrid (assistant)
2013–2014 Chelsea (assistant)
2014 Al-Shabab
2015 Chelsea (assistant)
2016– Antalyaspor

José Manuel Ferreira de Morais (born 27 July 1965), known as José Morais, is a Portuguese football coach.

He arrived at Inter in July 2009 to replace the departing André Villas-Boas who took the head coaching position at Portugal club Associação Académica de Coimbra – O.A.F..[1] Hired by fellow countryman José Mourinho, the two reportedly first met at Benfica in 2000.

After head coach José Mourinho terminated his contract with Inter, he followed Mourinho to Real Madrid in June 2010. Similarly, he followed Mourinho to Chelsea in June 2013 following the end of Mourinho's managerial spell with Real Madrid. And in February 2015 he started with esperence sportive de tunis.

Playing career

José Morais' playing career started at the União Desportiva de Leiria in 1984. He stayed there for two seasons before moving to Dragões de Alferrarede in 1986, playing there for two years. His next stint at Atlético Clube de Portugal lasted only one year. In 1990 he went on loan to Sport Club Praiense before finally retiring in Sport Club Penafiel after the 1990/1991 season.

Coaching career

José Morais is alleged to have worked with the Benfica youth team among several football clubs in Portugal,[2] Swedish club Assyriska, African club Espérance de Tunis (EST), as well as once holding the head coach position for the Yemen national soccer team.[3][4] On 27 of April 2002, he became the coach of Westfalia Herne in the fourth German division. [5]Between 20.01.2003 - 30.06.2003 he was the head coach from two times German champion Dresdner SC (3rd League).

On 6 June 2014, Morais was named as new manager of Saudi side Al-Shabab. He won Saudi Super Cup title after defeating Al Nassr FC in penalty shootout in his first match as Al-Shabab manager. For the 2014/15 season, Morais took a one-year sabbatical to become manager of Saudi Arabian team Al-Shabbab before returning to Chelsea for the start of pre-season ahead of the 2015/16 campaign.


Managerial statistics


As of 28 May 2014
Team From To Record
GWDLWin %
Tunisia Espérance 2008 2009 19 14 2 3 73.68
Saudi Arabia Al-Shabab 2014 2014 7 5 1 1 71.43
Turkey Antalyaspor 2016 Present 13 4 4 5 30.77
Total 39 23 7 9 58.97

Honours

Al-Shabab

References

  1. Inter.it staff, inter(a t)inter.it (2009-10-14). "Inter bids farewell to Andrè Villas Boas". F.C. Internazionale Milano. Retrieved 2010-06-12.
  2. "Anpa-Associação Nacional Da Polícia Aérea: Pcab/Pa - José Morais". Policia-aerea.blogspot.com. 2004-02-26. Retrieved 2010-06-12.
  3. "Jose' Morais Nello Staff Di Mourinho" (in Italian). Oleole.it. 2009-07-09. Retrieved 2010-06-12.
  4. "Assyriskas tränare José Morais till Inter". Fotbollseuropa.se. 2009-08-23. Retrieved 2010-06-12.
  5. http://www.wn.de/Welt/Sport/Fussball/Jose-Morais-kam-ueber-die-Oberliga-Westfalen-und-Regionalliga-zu-Real-Madrid-Mourinhos-fluesternder-Schatten


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