portuguese football director, former musician and Portuguese teacher

Pinheiro and the second or paternal family name is de Jesus. In this portuguese identify, the beginning or enate family name isand the second base or paternal family name is Jorge Fernando Pinheiro de Jesus ( portuguese pronunciation : [ ˈʒɔɾʒ ( ɨ ) ʒɨˈzuʃ ] ; [ 1 ] born 24 July 1954 ) is a portuguese professional football coach and erstwhile player who is the director of Benfica.

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He started his career with Sporting CP, going on to play for 12 early clubs in 17 years as a professional, which included nine Primeira Liga seasons. Jesus began a coaching career in 1990, and his first end in the chief category was with Felgueiras in the 1995–96 campaign. He went on to work with several teams, arriving at Benfica in 2009 and winning ten trophies ( a club record for a single coach ) vitamin a well as reaching two UEFA Europa League finals with them. He became director of Flamengo in 2019 and won the Copa Libertadores and Campeonato Brasileiro Série A in his beginning year. He was twice considered one of the 10 best baseball club coaches in the world by the International Federation of Football History & Statistics, in 2013 ( 8th place ) [ 2 ] and in 2019 ( 7th rate ). [ 3 ]

Playing career [edit ]

Jesus, son of Virgolino António de Jesus who played for Sporting CP in the 1940s, was born in Amadora, Lisbon, and finished his football formation with the same cabaret, making his exceed trajectory debut with S.C. Olhanense on loanword from the Lions. He played with Sporting ‘s first team in the 1975–76 season, appearing in 12 matches and starting once as the Lisbon club finished in fifth place. [ 4 ] Subsequently, released, he played in the country ‘s peak flight in seven of the follow eight years, representing C.F. Os Belenenses, Grupo Desportivo Riopele, Juventude de Évora, União de Leiria, Vitória de Setúbal and S.C. Farense, amassing totals in the category of 166 games and 14 goals. Jesus retired in 1990 at the age of 36, after spells in the moment ( chiefly with his hometown C.F. Estrela da Amadora ) and third levels .

Managerial career [edit ]

early years [edit ]

After starting as a director with junior-grade Amora FC, Jesus moved in December 1993 to F.C. Felgueiras as a surrogate for Rodolfo Reis, helping the club advertise to the top flight in his second season and being in and out of the team until January 1998, with Felgueiras back in division two. [ 5 ] [ 6 ] subsequently, he led former team Estrela district attorney Amadora to two consecutive eighth-place finishes in the inaugural part and, in agile succession, managed both Vitória de Setúbal and Amadora, celebrating lead flight promotions with both even though he was fired by the latter in March 2003. [ 7 ] [ 8 ] In 2003–04 he helped Vitória de Guimarães narrowly keep off relegation, finishing two points ahead of first relegated team F.C. Alverca. [ 9 ] In the follow four years, always in division one, Jesus was in commission of Moreirense FC ( suffering relegation ), União de Leiria and Belenenses, finishing fifth with the latter and qualifying to the UEFA Cup, and adding a presence in the 2007 portuguese Cup final, losing 0–1 to Sporting. [ 10 ] [ 11 ] On 20 May 2008, one day after leaving Belenenses, Jesus took over at S.C. Braga, leading the Minho english to the fifth position in the league and the round-of-16 in the UEFA Cup. [ 12 ] Highlights in the latter competition included a 3–0 home win against Portsmouth [ 13 ] and a last-minute 0–1 frustration to A.C. Milan at the San Siro. [ 14 ] He won the last edition of the UEFA Intertoto Cup, something never achieved by early portuguese club. [ 15 ]

Benfica [edit ]

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2009–10 : First season [edit ]

On 17 June 2009, Jesus replaced Quique Flores at the helm of S.L. Benfica. [ 16 ] In his first year he led Benfica to the first gear division title after a five-year wait, with alone two league defeats and 78 goals scored, [ 17 ] besides reaching the quarter-finals in the Europa League, losing to Liverpool on a 3–5 aggregate score ( this would be the last match Benfica would lose in a run that lasted 27 games ) ; he quickly implemented a 4–1–3–2 formation which resulted in highly attractive football. [ 18 ] On 5 October 2009 Jesus achieved his hundredth victory in the Portuguese League, in a 3–1 home succeed against F.C. Paços de Ferreira. [ 19 ] The following calendar month he experienced his first Derby de Lisboa, which ended in a 0–0 off string ; at the end of the triumphant campaign, which besides brought the domestic League Cup, the coach was rewarded with a newly contract extension, running until 2013. [ 20 ] [ 21 ]

2010–2013 : european improvement and domestic disappointment [edit ]

After a 2–0 win at VfB Stuttgart in that season ‘s Europa League ( 4–1 on aggregate ), Benfica ‘s beginning ever victory in Germany, Jesus surpassed the phonograph record held by Jimmy Hagan ‘s 1972–73 team, with 16 straight wins. [ 22 ] During the league campaign, which started without departed Ángel Di María and Ramires, the lack of rotation caused [ citation needed ] a major tire in the most use players. [ 23 ] [ 24 ] At the end of the season, Benfica merely won the League Cup [ 25 ] despite setting a domestic record of 18 back-to-back wins in all competitions. In the 2011–12 season, Jesus guided Benfica to the second base space in the league. He led the team to a cabaret ‘s fourth League Cup, [ 26 ] and to the hard rounds of the 2011–12 Champions League, defeating FC Zenit Saint Petersburg beginning, [ 27 ] [ 28 ] before losing to Chelsea, in the quarter-finals. [ 29 ]
director of football António Carraça ( left ) and Jesus ( correct ) in a catch at Spartak Moscow in October 2012 On 10 December 2012, after a 3–1 away victory against Sporting, Jesus became the most successful portuguese coach in the capital bowler hat with seven wins in a total of nine, surpassing Toni ( 6/10 ). [ 30 ] On 26 January of the follow year he defeated former side Braga at the Estádio Municipal de Braga for the beginning fourth dimension, after three defeats and one draw. [ 31 ] He briefly led the league with a five-point advantage [ 32 ] but did not maintain it, finishing in the second home again. On 15 March 2013, in a match against FC Girondins de Bordeaux in the campaign ‘s Europa League, Jesus reached the 200 game-milestone with Benfica, becoming the one-sixth coach in the baseball club ‘s history to do thus. [ 33 ] During the season he led the baseball club to its beginning european concluding in 23 years : after coming third in its group in the UEFA Champions League, the english reached the concluding of the Europa League, losing 1–2 to Champions League winners Chelsea. [ 34 ] [ 35 ] Domestically, Benfica finished second in the league despite leading up to second to end day, [ 36 ] and reached the concluding of the portuguese Cup, their first since 2004–05, suffering an unexpected defeat at the hands of Guimarães ; [ 37 ] these losses added great blackmail on the coach, as the club ended the season trophyless for the foremost time since 2007–08. [ 38 ]

2013–2015 : Six pieces of silverware [edit ]

On 4 June 2013, Jesus renewed his contract for a far two seasons. [ 39 ] When police attempted to well-defined Benfica supporters from the cant at the end of a match at Guimarães in September, he became physically involved, taking the english of supporters while obstructing the patrol. [ 40 ] The Portuguese Football Federation gave him a 30-day abeyance, which meant he would miss four league matches, and fined him €5,355. [ 41 ] On 11 February 2014, Jesus won his tenth plot ( 2–0 ) against Sporting, which draw two and won only one as an opposing coach. [ 42 ] On 20 March, he surpassed John Mortimore ‘s 1985–86 record of 918 minutes without conceding a goal at base matches. [ 43 ] Jesus led Benfica to its 33rd title on 20 April 2014, and became the irregular portuguese passenger car to win two national championships for the club after Toni. [ 44 ] Four days earlier the team had beat FC Porto 3–1 in malice of being reduced to ten men with 1 hour left to play, thus reaching the concluding of the portuguese Cup for the second consecutive clock time. [ 45 ] On 28 April 2014, Jesus managed to put Benfica in another final, that of the domestic League Cup, eliminating Porto at the Dragão on penalties in malice of being reduced to ten men with 1 hour left to play again. [ 46 ] The trophy was won at Leiria on 7 May against Rio Ave FC, securing his fourth in the competition and the club ‘s fifth. [ 47 ] On 1 May 2014, Jesus helped the club progress to its second consecutive Europa League final, by defeating Juventus 2–1 on aggregate after a scoreless trace in Turin. [ 48 ] The Portuguese lost on penalties 13 days late in the same city to Sevilla FC [ 49 ] [ 50 ] and he stated that referee Felix Brych overlooked three penalty decisions for Benfica. [ 51 ] On 18 May 2014, after seeing out Rio Ave in the portuguese Cup final, Jesus became the first portuguese coach and the seventh overall to win the double for Benfica ( the tenth in the club ‘s history ). [ 52 ] He besides became the first base coach in Portugal to conquer the domestic ternary in one temper ( the club ‘s foremost ever ). [ 53 ]

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On 10 August 2014, Jesus won his first Supertaça, as he surpassed János Biri as the coach with most matches at Benfica ( 273 ) and besides tied with Cosme Damião in act of trophies won ( 8 ), surpassing both János Biri and Otto Glória. With that victory, he became the first coach to win Primeira Liga, Taça de Portugal, Supertaça Cândido de Oliveira and Taça district attorney Liga ( furthermore, in a class ). [ 54 ] [ 55 ] [ 56 ] He continued to break cabaret records, becoming the coach with most victories ( 195 ) on 27 September 2014, in a winnings against Estoril. [ 57 ] On 18 January 2015, Jesus reached the three-hundredth game milestone at Benfica, with the highest victorious percentage since Jimmy Hagan in the early on 1970s, [ 58 ] and on 26 April he surpassed Otto Glória as the bus with the most league matches at Benfica. [ 59 ] On 17 May 2015, Jesus guided the club to its second gear consecutive league title, making it the beginning time Benfica won back-to-back league titles since 1984 ( 31 years ), after Sven-Göran Eriksson, and became the first portuguese passenger car to win two straight league titles at Benfica. [ 60 ] [ 61 ] [ 62 ] On 29 May 2015, he won his fifth Taça district attorney Liga ( the golf club ‘s one-sixth ), and became the Benfica coach with most titles won ( 10 ) and the only to win 3 titles in two consecutive seasons. [ 63 ] [ 64 ] On 4 June 2015, Benfica announced they had concluded negotiations on a possible reclamation of contract with Jesus, whose contract ended on 30 June. [ 65 ]

Sporting CP [edit ]

On 5 June 2015, Jesus signed a three-year abridge with Benfica ‘s Lisbon rivals Sporting CP, [ 66 ] starting his functions on 1 July [ 67 ] and earning €5 million per year. [ 68 ] His first official match as Sporting coach was a Derby de Lisboa brush with Benfica in the 2015 Supertaça, which Sporting won 1–0. [ 69 ] Despite a convinced start, he then failed to qualify for the UEFA Champions League and did not win any early trophy, finishing second in the Primeira Liga with 86 points ( a golf club read ), two points behind Benfica. In May 2016, Jesus renewed his narrow with Sporting and started earning €6 million a year until 2019. [ 70 ] however, the 2016–17 temper was trophyless. In the succeed season, on 15 May 2018, Jesus, along with assistant coach Raul José and several players, was injured following an attack by around 50 supporters of Sporting at the clubhouse ‘s training ground after the team finished third base in the league and missed out on the UEFA Champions League reservation. [ 71 ] [ 72 ] [ 73 ] Five days former, Sporting lost the portuguese Cup final to Desportivo hyrax Aves, making Jesus the first director to have lost in the final examination with three clubs. [ 74 ]
On 5 June 2018, Jesus left Portugal for the first fourth dimension in his career and took mission of Saudi incumbent national champions Al-Hilal. [ 75 ] In his first game on 17 August, he won the Saudi Super Cup with a 2–1 victory over Al-Ittihad in London. [ 76 ] Although he had a criminal record of sixteen wins and merely one defeat in twenty dollar bill matches, he was sacked by the president on 26 January 2019 following contractual disagreements. [ 77 ]

Flamengo [edit ]

jesus in 2020 On 1 June 2019, Jesus was appointed coach of brazilian clubhouse Flamengo for a year. [ 78 ] Upon bless, he was met with a negative reaction by fans, former Flamengo players and commentators, who believed that he was excessively old and could not adapt to Brazilian football ; when the team beat opponents, their managers would accredit the results to Flamengo ‘s players and finances rather than to Jesus. [ 79 ] He reacted to this atmosphere by saying “ I did not come to take anybody ‘s place or to teach anyone. I am neither better nor worse, I work according to a methodology. I would like to remind my brazilian colleagues that we had a brazilian [ coach ] in the national team, Scolari. He was admired by the portuguese managers. He and many others who worked in Portugal … All of us in Portugal tried to learn from them, there was never this verbal aggression that there is against me. I do n’t understand these close minds, even from some who are now at home plate, wearing gloves and shaking ”. [ 79 ] In his first gear game on 10 July, the team drew 1–1 at Athletico Paranaense in the first base leg of the quarter-finals of the Copa do Brasil. [ 80 ] Four days subsequently in his first Campeonato Brasileiro Série A game, he beat Goiás 6–1 at the Maracanã Stadium. [ 81 ] Jesus ‘ Flamengo won the 2019 Copa Libertadores, defeating Argentina ‘s River Plate 2–1 with a deep rejoinder in the concluding in Lima, Peru, on 23 November. He was the first extraneous director to win any external trophy with a brazilian team, the fifth to win the Copa Libertadores with a foreign clubhouse, and the second european coach, adenine well as the second non- South American native, to accomplish the feat, after then-Yugoslav Mirko Jozić with Chile ‘s Colo-Colo in 1991 ; [ 79 ] he was besides the one-fourth Portuguese to become golf club continental champion, following Artur Jorge, Manuel José, and José Mourinho. [ 82 ] Within 24 hours of winning the continental title, Flamengo besides won the national backing, when then second-placed Palmeiras lost 2–1 to Grêmio. He was the second foreign director, and the first non-South American, to win the brazilian championship after Argentine Carlos Volante in the debut edition in 1959, [ 83 ] the first extraneous coach to win it since the round-robin format was introduced, the first coach from his area to win a league title in South America, and the third Portuguese to win a national championship in the Americas, after Guilherme Farinha and Pedro Caixinha. [ 84 ] On 30 December 2019, President of Portugal Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa awarded to Jesus the order of Prince Henry air force officer decoration ( ComIH ). He said that Jesus ‘ achievements aided Portugal ‘s reputation abroad. [ 85 ] On 17 July 2020, Jesus left Flamengo. [ 86 ] He won five trophies with the brazilian cabaret, winning 43 of the 57 games in charge of the Rubro-Negro. [ 86 ]

return to Benfica [edit ]

Jesus returned to Benfica on 3 August 2020, signing a biennial narrow with the clubhouse. [ 87 ] Despite a €105 million investment, the biggest ever in Portuguese football, [ 88 ] the season started with Benfica ‘s elimination in the Champions League one-third qualifying round and continued with a loss at the Super Cup, an elimination from the League Cup, and a fourth place at the end of the league ‘s first round. With his fourthly personnel casualty at the portuguese Cup final examination, Jesus equalled the record of José Maria Pedroto and Fernando Vaz. [ 89 ]

personal life [edit ]

Jesus married his second wife, Ivone, and the couple had a son, Mauro. From his previous marriage, he had a daughter Tânia and a son Gonçalo. [ 90 ] He had over €1 million invested in the Banco Privado Português ( BPP ) when it went bankrupt in 2009. [ 91 ] He recovered eighty percentage of that amount in March 2014. [ 92 ] In March 2020, Jesus tested positive for COVID-19 virus during the COVID-19 pandemic. He had previously requested that brazilian football shut depressed due to the virus. [ 93 ]

managerial statistics [edit ]

As of 3 December 2021[94][95]

Honours [edit ]

National decorations [edit ]

managerial [edit ]

Braga [ 96 ]
Benfica [ 96 ]
Sporting CP

  • Taça da Liga: 2017–18
  • Supertaça Cândido de Oliveira: 2015

Al Hilal
Flamengo

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