Joao Sacramento: Who is Jose Mourinho’s new Tottenham assistant manager?
The 44-year-old Portuguese joins from Lille
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Your support makes all the difference.Jose Mourinho has hired Joao Sacramento as assistant manager after being announced as Mauricio Pochettino's replacement at Tottenham Hotspur.
The former Manchester United boss has already begun the process of assembling a new backroom team after Pochettino’s assistants joined him in departing the club.
Here, we take a closer look at Sacramento and his career to date:
Who is he?
Sacramento hails from Barcelos, just north of Porto.
He completed a degree in sports coaching and a Masters in performance coaching at the University of Glamorgan, having swapped the sunshine of Portugal for the rain of south Wales.
During his time in the country, he worked under Gary Speed and Chris Coleman as a performance analyst intern at the Welsh FA. This provided the starting point for his career; a year later in April 2014 he was hired as a technical assistant at Monaco, where he worked alongside Leonardo Jardim.
In January 2017, he became the assistant manager at Lille under Christophe Galtier.
What about Rui Faria?
The Portuguese has long been Mourinho’s second-hand man, stretching back to their early coaching days at Barcelona.
Over the course of their careers, the two men have joined forces at Porto, Chelsea (twice), Inter Milan, Real Madrid and Manchester United.
But it doesn’t look like Faria will be joining Mourinho this time around. The 44-year-old last year ventured into his first senior management role with Al-Duhail in Qatar, and is currently sitting pretty atop of the QNB Stars League with the side unbeaten after 10 games.
Is anyone else joining Sacramento at Tottenham?
Lille’s goalkeeping coach, Nuno Santos, has also been given the green light by the Ligue 1 club to join up with Mourinho at Tottenham.
Meanwhile, The Daily Telegraph is reporting that Carlos Lalin will become Mourinho’s fitness trainer while Giovanni Cerra and Ricardo Formoshino are set to join as an analyst and scout respectively.
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