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Gustavo Augusto Poyet Domínguez (; born 15 November 1967) is a Uruguayan professional football manager and former
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. He is currently the head coach of the Greece national football team. Poyet played as a
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and began his career with short spells at
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and River Plate. He then spent seven years at
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, with whom he won the
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and the
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. In 1997, Poyet moved to Chelsea on a free transfer and helped the club win the
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and the
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. In 2001, he moved to
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, where he saw out the remainder of his career. He was also part of the
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side which won the
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. After his playing career ended, Poyet moved into coaching. He served as assistant manager to Dennis Wise at Swindon Town and
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, and
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at
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. In November 2009, Poyet was appointed manager of Brighton & Hove Albion and in his first full season led the club to promotion as League One Champions, for which he was named League One Manager of the Year by the LMA. In October 2013 he was hired by
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team
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and guided them to the League Cup Final in his first season, but was sacked in March 2015 after a poor run of results. He later had spells at Superleague Greece side AEK Athens,
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club
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,
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team Shanghai Shenhua,
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of
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, and Universidad Católica in Chile.


Playing career


Club career

Born in
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, a goalscoring midfielder, he began his career with spells at
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and River Plate. Poyet moved to
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in 1990; winning the
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in 1994 and the Cup Winners' Cup a year later, beating
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in the final. He became Zaragoza's longest-serving foreign player, and scored 60 goals in 240 games for the club. Poyet joined Chelsea on a free transfer in June 1997. Not long into his first season at the London club, he suffered
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damage, this meant he missed the victorious
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but recovered to play in the team's successful Cup Winners' Cup Final against
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. The following year, he contributed 14 goals – making him the club's second highest scorer – to help Chelsea finish third in the Premiership, including a crucial headed goal in 1–0 win against
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. He also scored the winner for Chelsea in the 1998 UEFA Super Cup against
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. In 1999–2000, he scored 18 goals (which again made him Chelsea's second highest scorer), with a scissors-kick volley against
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, a long range strike against
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, and both of Chelsea's goals in the FA Cup semi-final against
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, among the most memorable, as the team won the
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and reached the
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quarter-finals. With the arrival of new manager
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in September 2000, Chelsea was a team in transition. With Ranieri seeking to reduce the average age of the squad, Poyet became surplus to requirements and requested a transfer. In 145 appearances for Chelsea, Poyet scored 49 goals. Poyet joined
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in May 2001 for around £2.2 million. He scored 14 goals in his debut season for Spurs and helped his team reach the League Cup final, but they lost 2–1 to Blackburn Rovers. His time at the club was blighted by injuries, and he again sustained cruciate ligament damage in August 2002, but still managed to score 23 goals in 98 games.


International career

Poyet was a
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international, making his international debut on 13 July 1993 in a
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against
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(1–2). After 67 minutes, he was substituted by Carlos Aguilera. Poyet helped his country win the
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in 1995. In doing so, he was voted as the best player in his position at the tournament. He won 26 caps in total, scoring three goals.


Managerial career


Early coaching

In July 2006, he became a player and assistant manager at Swindon Town alongside ex-Chelsea teammate, Dennis Wise. Both Poyet and Wise were given permission to talk about forming the new
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management team on 23 October 2006 and looked set to take the place of caretaker manager, John Carver, until Swindon withdrew permission due to disagreements over compensation. On 24 October 2006, Poyet was confirmed as assistant manager of Leeds with Dennis Wise as the manager. On 29 October 2007, Poyet rejoined his former club Tottenham Hotspur to work alongside new head coach
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as a first team coach with Marcos Álvarez as a fitness coach. During his first season as assistant manager at
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, he won the 2007–08 League Cup, beating Chelsea 2–1 after extra time in the
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after a penalty from Dimitar Berbatov in normal time and a header early into extra time from
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. On 25 October 2008, Poyet parted company with Tottenham Hotspur along with manager
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, first team coach Marcos Álvarez and sporting director
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.


Brighton & Hove Albion

On 10 November 2009, Poyet was announced as the new manager of English League One side Brighton & Hove Albion on a one-and-a-half-year contract. Former Tottenham teammate
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was also announced as Poyet's assistant manager. He steered the club to safety as he had a brilliant start to his career at Brighton by going to
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and winning 3–1. He started the 2010–11 season by making a number of signings including Gordon Greer,
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,
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,
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,
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and
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. He also signed a new four-year contract along with his assistant
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. The season started with five wins from the first eight games putting Brighton top of the League One table. Brighton started the year 2011 with a 5–0 home win on New Year's Day against Leyton Orient. Most notable was a run of eight straight league victories in March, leaving the club 13 points clear at the top with games in hand over all of their closest rivals with the exception of Southampton. Brighton secured promotion to the Championship following a 4–3 home win over
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,
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scoring the winner in the 63rd minute. The League One title was clinched on 16 April 2011, as Brighton beat
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3–1, having been top without slipping since the eighth game of the season and with four games of the season still to play. On 23 May 2011, Poyet was voted LMA League One Manager of the Year for his achievements in the 2010–11 season – his first full season as a football manager. During pre-season 2011, Poyet twice broke the club's record transfer-fee in signing Will Buckley and
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, and also brought in former
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and
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playmaker
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on a free transfer. After an unbeaten start to the 2011–12 season, Poyet was named as Championship manager of the month for August 2011. Poyet shortly after signed a new and improved five-year contract to remain at the club until 2016. In March 2012, Poyet won the Outstanding Managerial Achievement Award at the Football League Awards ceremony, beating Crystal Palace manager
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and former Huddersfield Town boss Lee Clark. On 23 June 2013, Brighton released an official statement declaring that Poyet had been informed that "his employment has been terminated with immediate effect". Poyet said that he was only made aware of his sacking when a member of the BBC production staff handed him a printout of the club statement, whilst working as a pundit for
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's coverage of the
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vs.
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group game in the
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.


Sunderland

On 8 October 2013, it was announced that Poyet had been appointed as Head Coach at
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on a two-year contract, becoming the first Uruguayan to manage in the Premier League. Eleven days later in his first match in charge, they lost 4–0 away to
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. His second game in charge, and first at the Stadium of Light, resulted in a 2–1 win against local rivals
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on 27 October. In his first season in charge, he took Sunderland to the League Cup Final after a
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win over
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in the semi-finals. On 19 April 2014, Poyet defeated
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in his first-ever home league defeat in the
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as Chelsea manager, a 2–1 win to Sunderland at Stamford Bridge. Poyet led Sunderland to a 2–0 win at home to
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on 7 May to guarantee Premier League safety with one game remaining, performing "a miracle" in his own words by arresting a decline that saw Sunderland seven points adrift of safety as late as 7 April, when they lost 5–1 to Tottenham Hotspur. Defeat to Everton in their following league game made avoiding relegation look like a near impossible task for the club, but Sunderland, under Poyet's stewardship, earned 13 points out of a possible 15 in their following five league games. Poyet signed a new two-year contract at Sunderland on 28 May 2014. The club sacked Poyet on 16 March 2015. At the time of his sacking, they were in 17th place in the league, one point above the relegation places.


AEK Athens

On 29 October 2015, AEK Athens reported that Poyet had agreed in principle to be the club's manager until summer 2016. In February 2016, he guided his team to successive wins against neighbours
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and Panathinaikos. He was sacked on 19 April 2016 after the team finished third in the league and awaited a Greek Cup semi-final; the board had taken issue with him informing the press before them that he would leave at the end of the campaign.


Betis

On 9 May 2016, Poyet had signed a two-year deal with
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. On 12 November 2016, he was sacked and replaced by Víctor Sánchez.


Shanghai Shenhua

On 29 November 2016, Poyet became the manager of
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side Shanghai Shenhua. Despite of being blamed by public for poor performance in the league and resigning on 11 September, he was still appreciated by some fans for his contribution to the team's championship in 2017
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later in November, including a 1-0 home victory over classic rival Beijing Guoan in 4th round, and a 3-1 away victory over
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in quarter final.


Bordeaux

On 20 January 2018, Poyet became the manager of
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side
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. In August, he was suspended by the club after criticising the sale of Gaëtan Laborde to
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. He was subsequently fired and replaced by
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on 5 September.


Universidad Católica

On 28 February 2021, Poyet became the manager of
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club Universidad Católica. He began his tenure by winning the delayed 2020
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against rivals
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and made the last 16 of the
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, but left by mutual consent at the end of August with the worst campaign in the last 10 years.


Greece

On 3 February 2022, Poyet became the manager of the Greece national team. He guided the team to four victories from their four opening fixtures in League C of the 2022 UEFA Nations League, helping Greece earn promotion to League B for the following campaign.


Personal life

Poyet is married to Madelon González with whom he has two sons:
Diego Diego is a Spanish masculine given name. The Portuguese equivalent is Diogo. The name also has several patronymic derivations, listed below. The etymology of Diego is disputed, with two major origin hypotheses: ''Tiago'' and ''Didacus''. ...
(born 1995) and Matias (born 1993). Diego is also a midfielder, making his professional debut in 2014 for
Charlton Athletic Charlton Athletic Football Club is an English professional football club based in Charlton, south-east London, which compete in . Their home ground is The Valley, where the club have played since 1919. They have also played at The Mount in ...
before moving to West Ham United, and has represented England at youth international level. Poyet's father was Olympic basketball player Washington Poyet, while his brother Marcelo also played the sport professionally in South America. Poyet introduced basketball to Sunderland academy training sessions, believing it to share many attributes with football, particularly marking.


Career statistics


International

:''Scores and results list Uruguay's goal tally first, score column indicates score after each Poyet goal.''


Managerial statistics


Honours


Player

Real Zaragoza *
Copa del Rey The Campeonato de España–Copa de Su Majestad el Rey, commonly known as Copa del Rey or simply La Copa and formerly known as Copa del Presidente de la República (1932–36) and Copa del Generalísimo (1939–76), is an annual knockout footb ...
: 1993–94 *
UEFA Cup Winners' Cup The UEFA Cup Winners' Cup was a European football club competition contested annually by the winners of domestic cup competitions. The cup was, chronologically, the second seasonal inter-European club competition organised by UEFA. The tourn ...
: 1994–95 Chelsea *
FA Cup The Football Association Challenge Cup, more commonly known as the FA Cup, is an annual knockout football competition in men's domestic English football. First played during the 1871–72 season, it is the oldest national football compet ...
: 1999–2000 *
FA Charity Shield The Football Association Community Shield (formerly the Charity Shield) is English football's annual match contested at Wembley Stadium between the champions of the previous Premier League season and the holders of the FA Cup. If the Premier L ...
: 2000 *
UEFA Cup Winners' Cup The UEFA Cup Winners' Cup was a European football club competition contested annually by the winners of domestic cup competitions. The cup was, chronologically, the second seasonal inter-European club competition organised by UEFA. The tourn ...
: 1997–98 *
UEFA Super Cup The UEFA Super Cup is an annual super cup football match organised by UEFA and contested by the winners of the two main European club competitions; the UEFA Champions League and UEFA Europa League. The competition's official name was original ...
: 1998 Uruguay *
Copa América The Copa América ( en, America Cup) or CONMEBOL Copa América, known until 1975 as the South American Football Championship (''Campeonato Sudamericano de Fútbol'' in Spanish and ''Campeonato Sul-Americano de Futebol'' in Portuguese), is the t ...
:
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Manager

Brighton & Hove Albion *
Football League One The English Football League One (often referred to as League One for short or Sky Bet League One for sponsorship purposes, and known as the Football League One from 2004 until 2016) is the second-highest division of the English Football Leag ...
: 2010–11 Universidad Católica *
Supercopa de Chile The Supercopa de Chile (''Supercup of Chile'') is an annual one-match football official competition in Chile organised by the Asociación Nacional de Fútbol Profesional (ANFP). This competition serves as the season opener and is played between t ...
: 2020 Individual * League One Manager of the Year: 2010–11 * League One Manager of the Month: September 2010, March 2011 * Football League Award for Outstanding Managerial Achievement: 2011


References


External links


Official website
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