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Jorge Jesus
Personal information
Full name	Jorge Fernando Pinheiro de Jesus
Position(s)	Midfielder
Team information
Current team	Benfica (manager)
Youth career
1970–1971	Estrela da Amadora
1971–1973	Sporting CP
Senior career*
Years	Team
1973–1974	→ Peniche (loan)
1974–1975	→ Olhanense (loan)
1975–1976	Sporting CP
1976–1977	Belenenses
1977–1978	Riopele
1978–1979	Juventude de Évora
1979–1980	União de Leiria
1980–1983	Vitória de Setúbal
1983–1985	Farense
1985–1987	Estrela da Amadora
1987–1988	Benfica Castelo Branco
1988–1989	Almancilense
Managerial career
1989–1993	Amora
1993–1998	Felgueiras
1998–2000	Estrela da Amadora
2000–2002	Vitória de Setúbal
2002–2003	Estrela da Amadora
2003–2004	Vitória de Guimarães
2004–2005	Moreirense
2005–2006	União de Leiria
2006–2008	Belenenses
2008–2009	Braga
2009–	Benfica
	*Club domestic league appearances and goals

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Jorge Fernando Pinheiro de Jesus (born 24 July 1954) is a Portuguese football manager currently managing Sport Lisboa e Benfica.

Coaching career

Pre-Benfica

Jesus started his career as a manager, in 1989, taking Terceira Divisião club Amora. In 1993, he moved to Felgueiras, and in the 1994–95 season, he led the team to promotion to the Portuguese Liga. When he left Felgueiras, he took Estrela da Amadora in 1999–00, and he helped the team to an eighth place finish in the Superliga.

He then celebrated promotions to the top division with Vitória de Setúbal and Estrela da Amadora. In 2003–04, Vitória de Guimarães called him, and he led the team to avoid relegation, being two points ahead of Alverca.

He then coached Moreirense from April to May 2005. The team was unable to survive, however, and was relegated. For União de Leiria, Jesus was a bit more successful, and the team finished seventh in the 2005–06 season. With Os Belenenses, Jesus managed a young team and celebrated a fifth place finish in the 2006–07 season, enough for qualification to the UEFA Cup.

That same season, Belenenses reached the Portuguese Cup final, losing 1–0 to Sporting Clube de Portugal, with a goal by Liédson in the 88th minute. The previous season, 2007–08, Belenenses was punished losing three points because in a home match against Nava 1º de Maio, the team used Albert Meyong illegally. Belenenses subsequently lost the qualification to next season's UEFA Cup.

On 20 May 2008, one day after he left Belenenses, Jesus took over at Sporting Clube de Braga. The team played fantastic football in the the league and in the UEFA Cup. They managed to impress in the given competition, beating Portsmouth three goals to none and being the better team against Milan at the San Siro. The eventually managed to finish fifth in the Portuguese Liga 2008–09 and were eliminated in the Round of 16 in the UEFA Cup by Paris Saint-Germain of France.

Benfica

Pre-season

On 16 June 2009, Sport Lisboa e Benfica made it official that Jesus would replace former manager Quique Sánchez Flores.

On 12 July, he guided Benfica to a 2–2 tie against Sion in its first of ten pre-season friendlies of the 2009–10 season, with Óscar Cardozo and Javier Saviola scoring the goals. On July 2009, in their second friendly, they beat defending UEFA Cup champions Shakhtar Donetsk 2–0 with goals coming from Cardozo and Carlos Martins. On 16 July, in their third of ten friendlies, Benfica beat Atletico Bilbao 2–1 with Javier Saviola scoring two second-half goals.

On 18 July, in their fourth friendly, they beat Olhanense 2–1 with a 74th minute highlight goal from Cardozo and an injury time goal by Miguel Vítor. On 21 July, in their fifth friendly, they lost to Atlético Madrid 2–1, with the only goal coming from Cardozo. The game was played in front of 58,000 fans at the Estádio da Luz, as this was the presentation game and the first game Simão, a beloved former captain of Benfica, played against them in an Atlético uniform. On 24 July, in their sixth friendly, they beat Sunderland 2–0 with goals coming from Cardozo and Maxi Pereira.

On 26 July, in their seventh friendly, Benfica won the Amsterdam Tournament 2009 against Ajax 3–2, with an own goal from Aissati and goals from Ángel Di María and David Luiz. On 1 August 2009, in their eighth friendly, they beat Portsmouth 4–0, with Cardozo scoring two first-half goals and Weldon scoring a second-half goal. An own goal from Wilkinson late in the second half resulted in Benfica's fourth goal of the match.

On 2 August, in their ninth friendly, Benfica won the Guimarães Tournament against Vitória de Guimarães 2–0, with goals coming from Weldon and Ruben Amorim. On 8 August, their final friendly, Benfica won the Eusébio Cup on penalty kicks against Milan. At the end of full-time, the match was tied 1–1 with Benfica's goal coming from Cardozo in the second half and Milan's from Alexandre Pato. During the penalty kick shoot-out, goalkeeper Quim saved a total of four penalties, which gave the match to Benfica and kept the Eusébio Cup in Lisbon for the first time. Benfica ended the 2009–10 preseason with a record of eight wins, one draw, and one loss in ten games.

In November, Benfica went to Toronto to beat Celtic Glasgow by 3-1 thus winning the fifth trophy of the pre-season, the CNE Cup. Also, they beat Santa Clara by 5-3 in a penalty shoot out to win the Pedro Pauleta Trophy after a 1-1 draw.

Regular season

On 16 August, the league started for Benfica with a 1–1 home draw against Marítimo. Although Jesus' team had many chances to easily win the game, Marítimo goalkeeper Peçanha stole the show, with the lone goal against him came from Weldon in the 87th minute. On 23 August, in the second league game, Benfica won 1–0 on the road against Vitória de Guimarães with the lone goal coming from a Ramires's header in the 89th minute. On 31 August, the third league game, Benfica crushed Vitória de Setúbal with a devastating 8–1 victory. Óscar Cardozo scored three goals and the other goals were scored by Pablo Aimar, Ramires, Luisão, Javi García, and Nuno Gomes. On 13 September, in their fourth league game, Benfica put Belenenses to shame with a 4–0 loss in their own home with goals coming from Javier Saviola, Óscar Cardozo, Javi García, and Ramires.

On 5 October, Jesus achieved his 100th victory in the Portuguese League in a game in which Benfica won 3-1 against Paços de Ferreira with goals scored by David Luiz, Carlos Martins and Cardozo. His first ever victory was on 27 August 1995. After more than 14 years, he managed to achieve this goal.

On 22 October, Benfica made history by winning 5–0 against Everton, a game that was part of the UEFA Europa League. That was followed by a 6–1 thrashing of Nacional in the Liga. After a seven game winningg streak, Jesus reached first place of the Liga table for the first time ever in his career. On October 31, he suffered his first loss in the 2009–10 Portuguese Liga to his former team Sporting Clube de Braga 2–0. On 22 November, Benfica lost 1–0 at home to Vitória de Guimarães, thus eliminating them from the Portuguese Cup.

On 28 November, Jesus participated in his first Derby de Lisboa match against Sporting Clube de Portugal. The game ended in a scoreless draw. On 2 December, Benfica clinched Group I of the 2009–10 UEFA Europa League with a 2–1 away victory vs BATE, with goals coming from Javier Saviola and Fábio Coentrão. On 20 December, Benfica beat their arch-rivals FC Porto 1–0 with a dubious goal coming from Saviola.

On 17 January, Benfica trashed Marítimo in their own stadium by 5 goals. On 9 February, Benfica beat their rivals Sporting by 4-1, progressing to the final of Carlsber Cup. Jesus also managed Benfica All Stars Team against Zidane's Friends in a game of charity to help Haiti.

Benfica regained the first place in the Portuguese League on 3 February after beating U. Leiria by 3-0. In the next five games, Benfica tied 1-1 in the first game against V. Setúbal and won 1-0, 4-0, 3-1 and 1-0 in the next four matches against Belenenses, Leixões, P. Ferreira and Nacional respectively. In Europe, after a 1-1 draw at Olympic Stadium, Benfica trashed Hertha by winning 4-0 thus reaching the Round of 16.

On 11 March, Benfica played against Olympique Marseille in a 1-1 draw at home with the goal coming from Maxi Perriera. One week later Benfica won in Stade Vélodrome by 2-1 with Maxi Perriera scoring again and Alan Kardec getting his first goal in a Benfica shirt. With these two goals scored, Benfica reached the 100th goal this season in all competitions. Also, with this win, Jesus became Benfica's manager with more wins in a season, 8, in the UEFA competitions. On 21 March, Jesus won his first Portuguese trophy after beating FC Porto in the Portuguese League Cup final by 3-0. One week later, Benfica beat SC Braga, with a goal from Luisão, in the game of the championship thus getting closer to the title.

On 1 April, Benfica beat Liverpool F.C by 2-1 in the 1st leg of the Europa League Quarter-finals with both goals coming from Cardozo, from the penalty area. On April 5th, Benfica beat Naval 4-2. They were trailing 2-0 and ended up scoring 4 goals in a row to secure the 3 points.

Jorge Jesus's Benfica is currently on a 27 game unbeaten streak in all competitions (21 wins and 6 ties) with their last loss coming on November 22nd, 2009 vs Guimaraes. Currently, the team has only one defeat in the league. The only time a team finished the league with only one defeat, was the 1959-60 season, when Benfica won the league with a 20-5-1 record. In the current season, Benfica's record in the league is 20-4-1.

Managerial honours

Amora

Portuguese Second Division "Zona Sul" (1): 1991–92

Belenenses

Portuguese Cup Runner-Up: 2007

Braga

Intertoto Cup (1): 2008

Benfica

Portuguese League Cup (1): 2010

Managerial statistics

Correct as of 6 April 2010.

Team	Nat	From	To	Record
Team	Nat	From	To	G	W	D	L	Win %	GF	GA	+/-
Vitória de Setúbal		4 October 2000	May 2001	30	18	5	7	60	58	40	+18
Moreirense		April 2005	2005	7	2	3	2	28.57	9	7	+2
União de Leiria		October 2005	2006	30	13	6	11	43.33	43	34	+9
Belenenses		2006	19 May 2008	75	33	15	27	44	94	78	+16
Braga		20 May 2008	16 June 2009	53	27	14	12	50.94	77	35	+42
Benfica		17 June 2009	Present	45	34	7	4	75	110	27	+83

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 On 1 April, Benfica beat [[Liverpool F.C]] by 2-1 in the 1st leg of the Europa League Quarter-finals with both goals coming from Cardozo, from the penalty area. On April 5th, Benfica beat Naval 4-2. They were trailing 2-0 and ended up scoring 4 goals in a row to secure the 3 points.
-Jorge Jesus's Benfica is currently on a 27 game unbeaten streak in all competitions (21 wins and 6 ties) with their last loss coming on November 22nd, 2009 vs Guimaraes.
+Jorge Jesus's Benfica is currently on a 27 game unbeaten streak in all competitions (21 wins and 6 ties) with their last loss coming on November 22nd, 2009 vs Guimaraes. Currently, the team has only one defeat in the league. The only time a team finished the league with only one defeat, was the [[Portuguese Liga 1959-60|1959-60]] season, when Benfica won the league with a 20-5-1 record. In the current season, Benfica's record in the league is 20-4-1.
 ==Managerial honours==