Pedro Daniel da Cunha Pereira de Sousa (born 3 October 1984) is a Portuguese
football
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manager
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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
Primeira Liga
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in 2022.
Coaching career
Assistant
Sousa first met the Portuguese coach
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 ...
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,
Porto
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,
Chelsea
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,
Tottenham Hotspur
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, and
Zenit Saint Petersburg
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, and assistant manager at Zenit
Shanghai Port
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and
Marseille
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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
Gil Vicente FC
Gil Vicente Futebol Clube (), commonly known as Gil Vicente, founded in 1924, is a Portuguese football club that plays in Barcelos. It competes in the Primeira Liga, the top division of football in the country, and it is named after the Portugues ...
. He replaced
Ivo Vieira
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He spent his entire playing career with Nacional, where he also began his managerial c ...
at the 16th-placed team. His debut four days later was a 2–2 draw at
S.C. Covilhã
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in the
Taça da Liga
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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
Primeira Liga
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game was a 1–0 home win over
C.D. Santa Clara
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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
Estádio do Dragão
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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
References
External links
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Ogol profile
{{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