Manuel José de Jesus

Manuel José first started to manage S.C. Espinho in 1978, where he gained promotion to the 1979–80 Primeira Liga. His first notorious management spell was at Vitória de Guimarães, which he coached during 1982 and 1983, guiding them to their first UEFA Cup after a 4th-place finish. The following season, he moved to Portimonense and in his second season there, he took the team to their highest Primeira Liga place, 5th, qualifying them to the UEFA Cup. Moving to Sporting CP in 1985, he was sacked in his second season, after a 6-game winless spree. He is credited for discovering Luís Figo while he was working with Sporting CP, a fact that he denies. Some of his most famous matches in his Sporting CP career were a 7–1 win over arch rivals Benfica, the widest win in the Lisbon derby, and a 9–0 away win against Íþróttabandalag Akraness, from Iceland, in the 1986–87 UEFA Cup, a record that still remains as their biggest away win in UEFA competitions. He moved to Sporting de Braga where he couldn't manage to find the success he had found in his former teams. Again at Sporting CP in 1990, he was sacked that same year after being eliminated 1–2 in their home stadium, for the Taça de Portugal, to Marítimo. After failing promotion to the 1991–92 Primeira Liga, with his first club, Sporting de Espinho, he moved to Boavista where he won the Taça de Portugal in his first season, and the Supertaça in his second one, also managing to lead them to the Taça de Portugal final in the same year.…

Player

Benfica

Primeira Liga: 1968–69

Managerial

Sporting de Espinho

Segunda Divisão Portuguesa – Série Norte: 1978–79 Boavista

Supertaça Cândido de Oliveira: 1992 Taça de Portugal: 1991–92 Al-Ahly

Egyptian Premier League: 2004–05, 2005–06, 2006–07, 2007–08, 2008–09, 2010–11 Egypt Cup: 2005–06, 2006–07 Egyptian Super Cup: 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008 CAF Champions League: 2001, 2005, 2006, 2008 CAF Super Cup: 2002, 2006, 2007, 2009 FIFA Club World Cup: Third place 2006

Individual

Globos de Ouro Best Portuguese Manager: 2009 CAF Coach of the Year: 2006

Special awards

Medal of Sport of First Class, by the Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak Comendador da Ordem do Mérito, by the Portuguese President Aníbal Cavaco Silva