Gus Poyet is currently the head coach of the Greece national football team.
34 Facts About Gus Poyet
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Gus Poyet then spent seven years at Real Zaragoza, with whom he won the Copa del Rey and the UEFA Cup Winners' Cup.
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In 1997, Gus Poyet moved to Chelsea on a free transfer and helped the club win the FA Cup and the UEFA Cup Winners' Cup.
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Gus Poyet was part of the Uruguay side which won the 1995 Copa America.
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Gus Poyet served as assistant manager to Dennis Wise at Swindon Town and Leeds United, and Juande Ramos at Tottenham Hotspur.
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Gus Poyet later had spells at Superleague Greece side AEK Athens, La Liga club Real Betis, Chinese Super League team Shanghai Shenhua, Bordeaux of Ligue 1, and Universidad Catolica in Chile, before being appointed as coach of Greece in 2022.
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Gus Poyet moved to Real Zaragoza in 1990; winning the Copa del Rey in 1994 and the Cup Winners' Cup a year later, beating Arsenal in the final.
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Gus Poyet became Zaragoza's longest-serving foreign player, and scored 60 goals in 240 games for the club.
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Gus Poyet joined Chelsea on a free transfer in June 1997.
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Gus Poyet scored the winner for Chelsea in the 1998 UEFA Super Cup against Real Madrid.
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Gus Poyet was a Uruguay international, making his international debut on 13 July 1993 in a friendly match against Peru.
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Gus Poyet helped his country win the Copa America in 1995.
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Gus Poyet won 26 caps in total, scoring three goals.
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On 24 October 2006, Gus Poyet was confirmed as assistant manager of Leeds with Dennis Wise as the manager.
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On 29 October 2007, Gus Poyet rejoined his former club Tottenham Hotspur to work alongside new head coach Juande Ramos as a first team coach with Marcos Alvarez as a fitness coach.
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On 25 October 2008, Gus Poyet parted company with Tottenham Hotspur along with manager Juande Ramos, first team coach Marcos Alvarez and sporting director Damien Comolli.
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Gus Poyet signed a new four-year contract along with Taricco.
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In March 2012, Gus Poyet won the Outstanding Managerial Achievement Award at the Football League Awards ceremony, beating Crystal Palace manager Dougie Freedman and former Huddersfield Town boss Lee Clark.
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On 23 June 2013, Brighton released an official statement declaring that Gus Poyet had been informed that "his employment has been terminated with immediate effect".
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Gus 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 BBC Three's coverage of the Spain vs Nigeria group game in the FIFA Confederations Cup.
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On 8 October 2013, it was announced that Gus Poyet had been appointed as head coach at Sunderland on a two-year contract, becoming the first Uruguayan to manage in the Premier League.
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Defeat to Everton in their following league game made avoiding relegation look like a near impossible task for the club, but Sunderland, under Gus Poyet's stewardship, earned 13 points out of a possible 15 in their following five league games.
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Gus Poyet signed a new two-year contract at Sunderland on 28 May 2014.
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On 29 October 2015, AEK Athens reported that Gus Poyet had agreed in principle to be the club's manager until summer 2016.
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Gus Poyet 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.
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On 9 May 2016, Gus Poyet had signed a two-year deal with Real Betis.
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On 29 November 2016, Gus Poyet became the manager of Chinese Super League side Shanghai Shenhua.
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On 20 January 2018, Gus Poyet became the manager of Ligue 1 side Bordeaux.
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On 28 February 2021, Gus Poyet became the manager of Chilean Primera Division club Universidad Catolica.
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Gus Poyet began his tenure by winning the delayed 2020 Supercopa de Chile against rivals Colo-Colo and made the last 16 of the 2021 Copa Libertadores, but left by mutual consent at the end of August with the worst campaign in the previous 10 years.
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On 3 February 2022, Gus Poyet became the manager of the Greece national team.
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Gus Poyet 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.
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Gus Poyet's father was Olympic basketball player Washington Gus Poyet, while his brother Marcelo played the sport professionally in South America.
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Gus Poyet introduced basketball to Sunderland academy training sessions, believing it to share many attributes with football, particularly marking.