Manuel José de Jesus

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Manuel José
Personal information
Full name	Manuel José de Jesus
Date of birth	1946
Place of birth	Vila Real de Santo António, Portugal
Playing position	Manager
Club information
Current club	Al-Ahly
Teams managed
1985-86 1987-1990 1990-91 1991-96 1996 1996-98 1999-2000 2001-2002 2002-2003 2003-	Sporting Clube de Portugal S.C. Braga S.C. Espinho Boavista F.C. C.S. Marítimo SL Benfica U.D. Leiria Al-Ahly Belenenses Al-Ahly
* Appearances (Goals)

Manuel José (born 1946) is a Portuguese football manager, who has coached Sporting Portugal, Boavista FC, Belenenses, and SL Benfica, among other teams. He is credited for discovering Luís Figo.

He replaced Paulo Autuori as Benfica manager in the middle of the 1996/97 season, but finished in 3rd place. Despite his bad results, he remained for the next season. A humiliating 3-1 defeat to Rio Ave, lead Benfica's direction to sack him.

His best results were a Cup of Portugal win, in 1992, to Boavista, and 16 successive titles in various African football competitions as coach of Egyptian club Al-Ahly. Since joining Al-Ahly, he has helped give the team a record-breaking unbeaten run of 71 matches. He also managed to win the African Champions League with the team 3 times (2001, 2005, 2006), making him the first coach to achieve such a feat. In 2001, his first year, he guided the Cairo club to African Champions League glory with a squad comprising mostly of promising youngsters like Hossam Ghaly, now at Derby County FC on loan from Tottenham Hotspur. He marked his first victory with Al-Ahly in a friendly game victory 1-0 over Real Madrid.

[edit] Honours

Manuel Jose was honoured by the Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak with the Medal of Sport of First Class for his contributions to Ahly and Egyptian Football on the 24 of December, 2006. This is the highest honour for a Portuguese citizen in Egypt.

[edit] Honours

While coaching Al-Ahly

1 - African Champions League 2001

2 - African Super Cup 2002

3 - Egyptian League Season 2004/2005

4 - Egyptian Super Cup 2005

5 - African Champions League 2005 (12.11.2005)

6 - African Super Cup 2006 (24.2.2006)

7 - Egyptian League Season 2005/2006

8 - Egyptian Cup 2006

9 - Egyptian Super Cup 2006

10 - African Champions League 2006 (11.11.2006)

11 - Third Place at Fifa Club World Cup Japan 2006 (17.12.2006)

12 - Medal of Sport of First Class by the Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak (24.12.2006)

13 - African Super Cup 2007 (18.2.2007)

14 - Egyptian League Season 2006/2007

15 - Egyptian Cup 2007 (02.07.2007)

16 - Egyptian Super Cup 2007 (09.08.2007)

17 - Egyptian League Season 2007/2008

[edit] External links

• FIFA.COM:Coach calls for calmness]
• All about egyptian players

Preceded by Artur Jorge	Cup of Portugal Winning Coach 1991-92	Succeeded by Toni
Preceded by Carlos Alberto Silva	Portuguese SuperCup Winning Coach 1992-93	Succeeded by Bobby Robson

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El-Ahly – current squad
2 Islam • 4 Nahhas • 5 El-Sayed • 6 Sedik • 7 Shady • 8 Barakat • 9 Moteab • 10 Belal • 12 Gilberto • 13 Mando Hegazi • 14 Samir • 15 Eno • 16 El-Henawi • 17 Boujelbene • 18 Osama • 19 Reda • 20 H.Mohamed • 21 Ramy • 22 Trika • 23 Flávio • 24 Fathy • 25 Ashour • 27 Amir • 28 Monaem • 29 Shedid • 30 Adel • 32 Samir • 34 Nano • -- El-Shenawy • -- Hussien • Manager: Manuel José