Rui Faria

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Rui Faria
Personal information
Full nameRui Filipe da Cunha Faria
Date of birth (1975-06-14) 14 June 1975
Place of birthBarcelos, Portugal
Club information
Current clubChelsea
Teams managed
YearsTeam
2001União Leiria (fitness coach)
2002–2004Porto (physiotherapist)
2004–2007Chelsea (fitness coach)
2008–2010Internazionale (fitness coach)
2010–2013Real Madrid (fitness coach)
2013–Chelsea (assistant first team coach)[1]

Rui Filipe da Cunha Faria (born 14 June 1975 in Balugães, Barcelos), better known as Rui Faria, is a Portuguese football coach, known for his association with football manager José Mourinho, currently working at Chelsea.

Biography

Early life

Faria was born in Balugães, a tiny parish of Barcelos in Portugal.[2] Like Mourinho, he was a physical education graduate who had not played football at a high level.[3] Faria's education took him to a seminar day at the Camp Nou, FC Barcelona's home stadium, where Mourinho was working as assistant manager to Louis van Gaal. Mourinho saw a kindred spirit in Faria, and when he took the U.D. Leiria job in April 2001 he hired Faria as a assistant and fitness coach.[3]

Coaching career

Faria's early time at Leiria, emblematic of Mourinho's new fitness regime, led to a stand-off with the club's directors.[3] Since then, the two have been inseparable, with Faria joining F.C. Porto in January 2002,[4] Mourinho's first month in charge of his new club. He was part of the club's staff for their 2003 league, cup and UEFA Cup treble and won the UEFA Champions League in 2004 with the club. Faria followed Mourinho to Chelsea F.C. that summer along with assistant manager Baltemar Brito, chief scout André Villas-Boas and goalkeeping coach Silvino Louro. He became ubiquitous in his Chelsea tracksuit on the London side's bench.

Faria left Chelsea in late 2007, following Mourinho out of the club, and joined him at Inter Milan in the summer of 2008. In June 2009, André Villas Boas left to manage Académica (later following in Mourinho's footsteps by taking over Porto, then Chelsea) and was replaced at Inter by José Morais. After winning the Serie A in their first season, the side completed a high-profile treble of league, cup and UEFA Champions League in 2010. Since the 2010–11 season, Faria was the assistant coach of Real Madrid, moving to the club along with Mourinho, Morais and Louro.[5] Faria followed Mourinho to Chelsea F.C., when he was confirmed as the manager in June 2013.[6]

He has worked alongside Mourinho since 2002, a period that had seen the manager and his staff fail to lose a league game at home in 8 years, the run ending with a 0-1 defeat to Sporting Gijón. Mourinho described him as his 'methodology right arm, the guy that understands best my information and the way I work'.[7]

Honours

As a Assistant coach, including a sabbatical in 2007–08, Faria's club sides have won their domestic league six times, the UEFA Cup once and the UEFA Champions League twice. Since 2002, Mourinho and Faria have not gone a full season or a calendar year without winning at least one trophy.

Portugal Porto (2002–2004)
England Chelsea (2004–2007)
Italy Internazionale (2008–2010)
Spain Real Madrid (2010–2013)

The Treble (League, Cup and European trophy)

Controversy

As with his longtime manager and colleague Mourinho, Faria has been the subject of controversy in the media. In a match against Reading FC in 2006 where Chelsea goalkeeper Petr Cech received a severe blow to the head, Faria was sent off alongside Chelsea midfielder Jon Obi Mikel.[8] In a 2005 Champions League quarterfinal against Bayern Munich where Mourinho was suspended for Chelsea, Faria was seen wearing a woolly hat and scratching his ear enough to elicit suspicions that Mourinho was covertly communicating with his fitness coach.[9] At Real Madrid, Faria was said to have been party to an altercation with Sporting Gijón manager Manuel Preciado after a match between the two clubs in November 2010.[10]

Private Life

Rui Faria is married and father of three children.[11]

References

  1. ↑ "RUI FARIA - ASSISTANT FIRST TEAM COACH". 
  2. ↑ "Rui Faria da Cunha Faria". zerozerofootball. Retrieved 09 March 2011. 
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 "Porto coaching staff likely to follow Mourinho to Chelsea". The Guardian. 2 June 2004. Retrieved 09 March 2011. 
  4. ↑ "Rui Faria - Coach data sheet". transfermarkt. Retrieved 09 March 2011. 
  5. ↑ "Mourinho adds Karanka to Real Madrid staff". 
  6. ↑ "Mourinho brings in three members of backroom staff from Real Madrid to join existing team". 
  7. ↑ "RUI FARIA - ASSISTANT FIRST TEAM COACH". 
  8. ↑ "Cech Facing Months Out After Brain Operation". Guardian News and Media. 15 October 2006. Retrieved 09 March 2011. 
  9. ↑ "Mourinho denies ordering 'deliberate' red cards". Telegraph. 24 November 2010. Retrieved 09 March 2011. 
  10. ↑ "Mou's Clues: The Preciado Affair Continues". Managing Madrid. November 2010. Retrieved 09 March 2011. 
  11. ↑ "Rui Faria, el chico de gafas con cara de niño". 
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