Luís Berkemeier Pimenta (born 25 September 1981) is a Portuguese

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Personal life

Pimenta was born in

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, Portugal to a Portuguese father and a German mother. At the age of 5, he moved to

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with his family.

Managerial career

At 15, Pimenta decided that he wanted to pursue a career as a football manager, and completed all his

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training courses. From Luxembourg he returned to the Portuguese capital to study human kinetics at the university. During his degree course, he went to Liverpool to learn psychology and football science, as well as deepen his knowledge of English. Back in Portugal, he met Gonçalo Pereira, destined to be his deputy for the years to come. After finishing the course, Pimenta and Pereira entered the technical staff of Rui Jorge at

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. At the same time, Pimenta worked at the Academia Carlos Queiroz in

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, being also an assistant for the first team, where they reached the best classification in the club's history in 2012, under the lead of Leif Gunnar Smerud. He became the assistant manager of Roar Johansen in 2014, but they were both released that year. In September 2014, he became the manager of

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replacing

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, where Pimenta got his first experience as head coach. He helped the team getting up from the 3. divisjon to the 2. divisjon 20 points ahead of their closest rivals. The next year, Kongsvinger finished in fifth and qualified for the promotion playoffs and, more surprisingly, made the

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final, losing to

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. At the end of the season, he declined renewal offers and left the club. After a year off, Pimenta became the head coach of the Swedish club

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in the

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, after two seasons of successive promotions by

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. Again, he brought Gonçalo Pereira along as his deputy. In August 2018, some players came forward, although under anonymity, to reveal an alleged leadership influenced by racism, penalism and sexism. Despite an internal investigation concluding that the accusations were false, as stated since the beginning by Pimenta, him and his two assistants reached an agreement with the club for the termination of the contract. Two days after Pimenta’s departure, Brommapojkarna's sport’s director, Daniel Majstorovic, resigned, disagreeing with the way the club handled this situation, and emphasizing that the accusations were false. Pimenta signed with the Latvian club

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in February 2019, but left a month later on 2 March. In the summer of 2020 he was appointed as coach of Norway U18 and U19. In March 2023, Pimenta led Norway U19 to

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for the

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, where they reached the semi-final.

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* 1981 births Living people Portuguese football managers Portuguese people of German descent Portuguese emigrants to Luxembourg Kongsvinger IL Toppfotball managers IF Brommapojkarna managers Riga FC managers Sogndal Fotball managers Portuguese expatriate sportspeople in Norway Portuguese expatriate sportspeople in Sweden Portuguese expatriate sportspeople in Latvia Expatriate football managers in Norway Expatriate football managers in Sweden Expatriate football managers in Latvia {{Portugal-footy-bio-stub