Daniel Sousa (football manager)
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Pedro Daniel da Cunha Pereira de Sousa | ||
| Date of birth | 3 October 1984 | ||
| Place of birth | Barcelos, Portugal | ||
| Team information | |||
Current team | Gil Vicente (manager) | ||
| Managerial career | |||
| Years | Team | ||
| 2015–2016 | Zenit Saint Petersburg (assistant) | ||
| 2017 | Shanghai Port (assistant) | ||
| 2019–2021 | Marseille (assistant) | ||
| 2022– | Gil Vicente | ||
Pedro Daniel da Cunha Pereira de Sousa (born 3 October 1984) is a Portuguese football manager. He is the current manager of Portuguese Primeira Liga club Gil Vicente.
After working as a long-term assistant manager to André Villas-Boas, he started managing in his own right in the Primeira Liga in 2022.
Coaching career
Assistant
Sousa first met the Portuguese coach André Villas-Boas when the former was a student at the University of Porto, in the Faculty of Sports. He interviewed Villas-Boas about strategies for attacking football as part of his final-year thesis, and was later recommended to the young manager by professor of football José Guilherme, who was Villas-Boas' assistant at Académica.[1] Sousa was Villas-Boas' match analyst at Académica, Porto, Chelsea, Tottenham Hotspur, and Zenit Saint Petersburg, and assistant manager at Zenit Shanghai Port and Marseille spanning 10 years of service.[2][3]
Gil Vicente
On 16 November 2022, he was named manager of the Portuguese Primeira Liga side Gil Vicente, replacing Ivo Vieira.[4]
References
- ^ "Andre Villas-Boas: Chelsea's new manager who has dedicated himself to football". www.telegraph.co.uk.
- ^ "OM - Daniel Sousa : "On ne peut pas comparer"". LaProvence.com (in French). November 23, 2020.
- ^ "″O meu passado com André Villas-Boas é preponderante no que sou hoje″". ojogo.pt (in Portuguese).
- ^ "Oficial: Gil Vicente confirma contratação do novo treinador". ojogo.pt (in Portuguese).
External links
- Daniel Sousa at Soccerway
- Ogol profile
- 1984 births
- Living people
- People from Barcelos, Portugal
- Portuguese football managers
- Primeira Liga managers
- Gil Vicente F.C. managers
- FC Porto non-playing staff
- Chelsea F.C. non-playing staff
- Tottenham Hotspur F.C. non-playing staff
- FC Zenit Saint Petersburg non-playing staff
- Shanghai Port F.C. non-playing staff
- Olympique de Marseille non-playing staff
- Portuguese expatriate football managers
- Portuguese expatriate sportspeople in England
- Portuguese expatriate sportspeople in Russia
- Portuguese expatriate sportspeople in China
- Portuguese expatriate sportspeople in France
- University of Porto alumni