José Peseiro

José Vitor dos Santos Peseiro ( born April 4, 1960 in Coruche ) is a Portuguese football coach.

Career

As a coach

Peseiro, who graduated from the same coaching course together with José Mourinho, his career began in 1992 with the club União de Santarém where he remained until 1994. After two years with União de Montemor and three years in Oriental he finally in 1999 moved to CD Nacional Madeira played at this time in the third Portuguese league. With Madeira Peseiro rose in his first season in the second division in order to make it perfect just after two more years, the rise in the highest Portuguese league. Following these exceptional Peseiro got in the summer of 2003, an offer from the top Spanish club Real Madrid where he, behind Carlos Queiroz, held the post of assistant coach. However, after Real Madrid remained short of the objectives and the contracts have been resolved with the coaching staff after just one season, Peseiro moved back to his home and to Sporting Lisbon.

For Sporting managers put a lot on Peseiro and hoped for with him the supremacy of rivals FC Porto to break through. Despite a poor start to the 2004/2005 season made ​​it Peseiro with his team in the meantime on the first place. This one lost but two games to end the season at Benfica, Sporting Lisbon so that at the end of the season even landed on the third place of the Portuguese Championship and thus qualified to qualify for the 3rd round of the UEFA Champions League. Although Peseiro missed the championship, he managed by reaching the UEFA Cup Final in 2005 to achieve a decent result. Sporting that could reach an international finals for the second time in their history, turned, among other clubs such as Newcastle United, Feyenoord Rotterdam and AZ Alkmaar, but ultimately failed, despite a 1-0 lead with 1:3 at CSKA Moscow.

After the 2005/2006 season began with the departure unsatisfactory for Sporting in the Champions League qualifiers, Peseiro was released on October 18 and later transferred to Al -Hilal in Saudi Arabia. At Al -Hilal Peseiro remained until 10 January 2007. From May 2007 to May 2008, he stood by the Greek tradition Panathinaikos Athens under contract.

In July 2008 he took over as coach of the Romanian first division club Rapid Bucharest. There he was on leave after leaving in the UEFA Cup, on 3 October 2008 and took until January 2009 other tasks in the club. On 18 February 2009, Peseiro successor to the retiring Nasser Al Johar as national coach of Saudi Arabia.

After the initial defeat at the Asian Cup 2011 he was dismissed as coach of Saudi Arabia without notice.

On June 8, 2012 Peseiro was officially introduced as the new head coach of SC Braga. There he signed a contract for 2 years. In the first year he won the League Cup though, but his team finished only fourth in the league and thus missed out on the UEFA Champions League play-offs. Then he agreed with the club on a contract.