Rui Faria
Rui Filipe da Cunha Faria ( born June 14, 1975 in Balugães, Barcelos ), better known as Rui Faria, is a Portuguese football coach, known for his work with José Mourinho, with whom he worked at Chelsea as a fitness and conditioning coach.
Career
Childhood and education
Faria was born in Balugães, a small municipality in the district of Barcelos in Portugal. As Mourinho he studied sports science and never played professional football itself. During his studies, he got the opportunity to pursue a seminar for work training in the Camp Nou, the stadium of FC Barcelona, where Mourinho worked as an assistant coach Louis van Gaal. Mourinho saw a kindred spirit in Faria and when he in April 2001, his coaching job at UD Leiria took, he campaigned Faria as a fitness trainer.
Coaching career
Farias early years in Leiria, symbolic of Mourinho's new fitness concept, led to a dead end with the club managers. Since then, the two are inseparable, together they went in January 2002 to FC Porto, where Mourinho was in charge of the new club. Faria was part of the team that won the league in 2003, the National Cup and the UEFA Cup and 2004 UEFA Champions League with Porto. He followed Mourinho to Chelsea the following summer, along with assistant coach Baltemar Brito, players scout André Villas- Boas, and goalkeeping coach Silvino Louro. He was omnipresent in Chelsea tracksuit on the bank of London.
Faria left Chelsea in 2007, Mourinho came away from the club and began with him at Inter Milan. In June 2009, Andre Villas -Boas, who took a job as a head coach himself, replaced by José Morais. After winning the Serie A in their first season they completed their collection with the treble of League, Coppa Italia and UEFA Champions League in 2010. Since the 2010/11 season is Faria fitness coach of Real Madrid, the club joined together with Mourinho, Morais and Louro. In cooperation with Mourinho lost this and his coaching staff since 2002, eight years no home league game more. The run ended with a 0-1 defeat against Sporting Gijon. In addition, Rui Faria has since often expelled from the bench because he criticized the referee massive. For this he received the nickname " lost angel " in football.
Private life
Rui Faria is married and has three daughters.
Achievements
As a fitness coach, including the break in 2007 / 08, Faria has won with his club six times the domestic league, the UEFA Cup once and the UEFA Champions League twice. Since 2002, Mourinho and Faria no season or not a calendar year without winning a title have had.
- Champions League winner: 2004 (FC Porto ), 2010 ( Inter Milan )
- UEFA Cup Winners: 2003 ( FC Porto )
- Champion: 2003, 2004
- Cup winner: 2003
- Supercup winner: 2003
- Champion: 2005, 2006
- Cup winner: 2007
- League Cup Winners: 2005, 2007
- Supercup winner: 2005
- Champion: 2009, 2010
- Cup winner: 2010
- Supercup winner: 2008
- Cup winner: 2011
- Champion: 2012
Controversial
Together with his head coach and Mourinho colleagues Faria has become the object of discussion in the media. In the match against Reading FC 2006, in the Chelsea goalkeeper Petr Cech suffered a severe head injury, Faria was sent alongside Chelsea midfielder John Obi Mikel from the square. Was blocked in the Champions League quarter-finals in 2005 against Bayern Munich, for Mourinho, Faria was wearing a woolen hat and was seen as including repeatedly drew on his ear, which suggested that Mourinho communicated secretly with his fitness trainer. At Real Madrid was claiming Faria had been embroiled in a dispute with Sporting Gijon coach Manuel Preciado after playing the two clubs in November 2010.