José Morais

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Morais (right) with José Mourinho.

José Morais (born 27 July 1965) (full name José Manuel Ferreira de Morais) is a Portuguese Football Technical Assistant at Chelsea in the Barclays Premier League.

He arrived at Inter in October 2009 to replace the departing André Villas-Boas who took the head coaching position at Portuguese football club Associacao Academia de Coimbra - O.A.F.[1] Hired by fellow countryman José Mourinho, the two reportedly first met at Benfica in 2000.

After head coach Jose Mourinho terminated his contract with Inter, he followed Mourinho to Real Madrid in June 2010. Similarly, he followed Mourinho to Chelsea in June 2013 following the end of Mourinho's managerial spell with Real Madrid.

Playing career

Jose Morais' playing career started at the União Desportiva de Leiria in 1984. He stayed there for two seasons before moving to Dragoes de Alferrarede in 1986, playing there for two years. His next stint at Atlético Clube de Portugal lasted only one year. In 1990 he went on loan to Sport Club Praiense before finally retiring in Sport Club Penafiel after the 1990/1991 season.

Coaching career

Jose Morais is alleged to have worked with the Benfica youth team among several football clubs in Portugal,[2] Swedish club Assyriska, African club Espérance de Tunis (EST), as well as once holding the head coach position for the Yemen national soccer team.[3][4] On 27th of April 2002, he became the coach of Westfalia Herne in the fourth German division but was dismissed on 20th of August 2002, shortly after season 2002/03 was started.[5]Between 20.01.2003 - 30.06.2003 he was the head coach from two times German champion Dresdner SC (3rd League)

References

  1. ↑ Inter.it staff, inter(a t)inter.it (2009-10-14). "Inter bids farewell to Andrè Villas Boas". F.C. Internazionale Milano. Retrieved 2010-06-12. 
  2. ↑ "Anpa-Associação Nacional Da Polícia Aérea: Pcab/Pa - José Morais". Policia-aerea.blogspot.com. 2004-02-26. Retrieved 2010-06-12. 
  3. ↑ "Jose' Morais Nello Staff Di Mourinho" (in Italian). Oleole.it. 2009-07-09. Retrieved 2010-06-12. 
  4. ↑ "Assyriskas tränare José Morais till Inter". Fotbollseuropa.se. 2009-08-23. Retrieved 2010-06-12. 
  5. ↑ http://www.wn.de/Welt/Sport/Fussball/Jose-Morais-kam-ueber-die-Oberliga-Westfalen-und-Regionalliga-zu-Real-Madrid-Mourinhos-fluesternder-Schatten


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