National coaches have already achieved success in 34 countries, with 33 successes in eight African countries topping the list.
With Palmeiras in charge for two years, Abel Ferreira is the third Portuguese coach to win the South American national championship, surrounded by Flamengo triumphant Jorge Jesus (2019) and Renato Paiva in the service of Independiente del Ecuadorians. -Valier (2021). ).).
National coaches have already achieved success in 34 countries, with a list topped by 33 successes in eight African countries, with Jésualdo Ferreira returning to Zamalek to secure a 10th Portuguese-led record in Egypt in August, the same number as in Mozambique. . . .
On this continent, Manuel José stood out with six Egyptian scepters for Al-Ahli and Bernardino Pedroto with three in the ASA and two in Petro Luanda, all in Angola, not counting the conquests in Cape Verde, Libya, Morocco, Tunisia or Algeria, where Carlos Gomez became the first Portuguese to become champion abroad in 1970/71 for MC Oran.
In Europe, national coaches have already achieved success in 13 countries besides Portugal, such as Bulgaria, Cyprus, Greece, Israel, Luxembourg, Romania, Russia, Switzerland or Ukraine, while Germany did not make it into the top five championships in this indicator. continent.
Most responsible for this scenario is José Mourinho, who is still the only one to win in Spain, for Real Madrid (2011/12), in England where he won three times for Chelsea (2004/05, 2005/06). and 2014). /15), and in Italy – “bisando” in Milan “Inter” (2008/09 and 2009/10).
Roma’s current player coach has never worked in Germany or France, a country where they have already beaten Arthur Jorge for Paris Saint-Germain in 1993/94 and 1994/95, and most recently, in 2016/17, Leonardo Jardim on service of Monaco.
Asia has the Portuguese flags of nine countries – Saudi Arabia, China, South Korea, Hong Kong, Macau, Malaysia, Maldives, Qatar and Vietnam – with a focus on José Morais, after the two scepters of the Koreans of Chonbuk and the Saudis of Al-Hilal.
If there is no victory in Oceania, the history of North America will be reduced to Guilherme Fariña’s double in Costa Rica, representing Alajuelense, in 1999/00 and 2000/01, and Pedro Caisinha’s title in Mexico with Santos Lagun in 2014/15. .
