Pedro Daniel da Cunha Pereira de Sousa (born 3 October 1984) is a Portuguese

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. After working as a long-term assistant manager to

André Villas-Boas Luís André de Pina Cabral e Villas-Boas (; born 17 October 1977) is a Portuguese football manager, who most recently was the manager of Ligue 1 club Marseille. He is one of a growing number of top-level managers who have never played football ...

, he started managing in his own right in the

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in 2022.

Coaching career

Assistant

Sousa first met the Portuguese coach

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. Sousa was Villas-Boas' match analyst at Académica,

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, and

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, and assistant manager at Zenit

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and

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spanning 10 years of service.

Gil Vicente

On 16 November 2022, Sousa was named in his first managerial job, at his hometown club

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. He replaced

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at the 16th-placed team. His debut four days later was a 2–2 draw at

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in the

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group stage; by winning the two other games they made the quarter-finals and lost 2–0 to eventual winners Porto. Sousa's first

game was a 1–0 home win over

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on 29 December 2022. The following 26 February, he won 2–1 away to Porto, one of only three losses over the season for the opponents and of two at the

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. After a 13th-placed finish, he left on 26 June 2023 as the club president wanted a different manager.

Managerial statistics

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Sousa, Daniel 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