Rui Jorge

Rui Jorge ( born March 27, 1973 in Vila Nova de Gaia, full name Rui Jorge de Sousa Dias Macedo Oliveira ) is a former Portuguese football player and current football coach. He currently coaches the Portuguese U -21 national football team.

Career as a football player

Association

In the field of youth Jorge went through since 1982, the different ages of FC Porto. In the 1990/91 season he joined his first professional appearances for the Dragons. In its first year, the national cup was won. Even before league start, Porto secured the Super Cup. Thus Jorge was early triumphs in his career. Since he usually had the role of the complement player, he decided a change. In the season 1991/92 he joined the club unterklassigen Rio Ave FC. For Rio Ave he was both the newcomers, as well as in the first team squad on the ball A year later the return to Porto. From then on, the left-back has developed more and more into a mainstay of the team and was able to win with them country- house titles. In addition to the championships in 1993, 1995, 1996, 1997 and 1998, the Cup in 1994 and 1998 and the Super Cup in 1992, was won in 1993, 1996 and 1997. After winning the national Triples In 1997/98 Sporting Lisbon secured the services of Jorge's. With the lizards more titles were collected. As in Porto, Jorge was in Lisbon achievers and leading players. In his last season with the Green-Whites, the team came to the final in front of the UEFA Cup. There, they lost on 18 May 2005 the Russian representative CSKA Moscow. Jorge was not used in this finale. To end his career, he moved inside the capital to Belenenses and ran for one more year for the tarts on.

National

Jorge represented in various youth teams, the colors of his country. With the U -21 Portugal, he lost the final of the 1994 European Championship with 1-2 against Italy. In 1996 he was a participant in the Olympic Games in Atlanta, where the fourth place was achieved.

Although he made his debut against Norway in the senior national team in a friendly match in 1994, he had to wait a long time until he came to regular operations. It was not until 1998 Jorge moved to Sporting Lisbon, he became the master power of the Portuguese. For the 2000 European Championships, the 2002 World Cup and Euro 2004, he was appointed to the Portuguese squad.

See also:

  • Portuguese World Cup squad for the World Cup 2002
  • Portuguese EM squad for Euro 2000
  • Portuguese EM squad for Euro 2004

Achievements

  • Portuguese Football Champion: 1993, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 2000, 2002
  • Portuguese Cup Winners: 1991,1994,1998, 2002
  • Portuguese Super Cup: 1991, 1994, 1995, 1997, 2001, 2003

Career as a coach

Rui Jorge began his coaching career in 2006 as a youth coach at Belenenses Lisbon, 2009, he took over there for half a year the first team after the sacking of coach Jaime Pacheco short-term.

Since the September 19, 2010 Rui Jorge 's coach of the Portuguese U -21 national football team

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