Jorge Fernando Pinheiro de Jesus is a Portuguese professional football manager and former player, who is the current manager of Super Lig club Fenerbahce.
31 Facts About Jorge Jesus
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Jorge Jesus started his career with Sporting CP, going on to play for 12 other clubs in 17 years as a professional, which included nine Primeira Liga seasons.
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Jorge Jesus went on to work with several teams, arriving at Benfica in 2009 and winning ten trophies as well as reaching two UEFA Europa League finals with them in six seasons.
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Jorge Jesus became manager of Flamengo in 2019 and won the Copa Libertadores and Campeonato Brasileiro Serie A in his first year.
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Jorge Jesus returned to Benfica in 2020 and did not win a single trophy despite a Portuguese record investment during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Jorge Jesus won the last edition of the UEFA Intertoto Cup, something never achieved by other Portuguese club.
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Jorge Jesus briefly led the league with a five-point advantage but did not maintain it, finishing in the second place again.
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On 15 March 2013, in a match against FC Girondins de Bordeaux in the campaign's Europa League, Jorge Jesus reached the 200 game-milestone with Benfica, becoming the sixth coach in the club's history to do so.
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On 4 June 2013, Jorge Jesus renewed his contract for a further two seasons.
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On 11 February 2014, Jorge Jesus won his tenth game against Sporting, which draw two and won only one as an opposing coach.
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Jorge Jesus led Benfica to its 33rd title on 20 April 2014, and became the second Portuguese coach to win two national championships for the club after Toni.
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On 28 April 2014, Jorge Jesus managed to put Benfica in another final, that of the domestic League Cup, eliminating Porto at the Dragao on penalties in spite of being reduced to ten men with 1 hour left to play again.
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On 18 May 2014, after seeing out Rio Ave in the Portuguese Cup final, Jorge Jesus became the first Portuguese coach and the seventh overall to win the double for Benfica.
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Jorge Jesus became the first coach in Portugal to conquer the domestic treble in one season.
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On 10 August 2014, Jorge Jesus won his first Supertaca, as he surpassed Janos Biri as the coach with most matches at Benfica and tied with Cosme Damiao in number of trophies won, surpassing both Janos Biri and Otto Gloria.
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Jorge Jesus continued to break club records, becoming the coach with most victories on 27 September 2014, in a win against Estoril.
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On 18 January 2015, Jorge Jesus reached the 300th game milestone at Benfica, with the highest winning percentage since Jimmy Hagan in the early 1970s, and on 26 April he surpassed Otto Gloria as the coach with the most league matches at Benfica.
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On 17 May 2015, Jorge Jesus guided the club to its second consecutive league title, making it the first time Benfica won back-to-back league titles since 1984, after Sven-Goran Eriksson, and became the first Portuguese coach to win two consecutive league titles at Benfica.
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On 5 June 2018, Jorge Jesus left Portugal for the first time in his career and took charge of Saudi incumbent national champions Al-Hilal.
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On 1 June 2019, Jorge Jesus was appointed manager of Brazilian club Flamengo for a year.
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Jorge Jesus was the first foreign manager to win any international trophy with a Brazilian team, the fifth to win the Copa Libertadores with a foreign club, and the second European coach, as well as the second non-South American native, to accomplish the feat, after then-Yugoslav Mirko Jozic with Chile's Colo-Colo in 1991; he was the fourth Portuguese to become club continental champion, following Artur Jorge, Manuel Jose, and Jose Mourinho.
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Jorge Jesus was the second foreign manager, and the first non-South American, to win the Brazilian championship after Argentine Carlos Volante in the debut edition in 1959, the first foreign manager to win it since the round-robin format was introduced, the first manager from his country to win a league title in South America, and the third Portuguese to win a national championship in the Americas, after Guilherme Farinha and Pedro Caixinha.
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Jorge Jesus said that Jesus' achievements aided Portugal's reputation abroad.
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Jorge Jesus won five trophies with the Brazilian club, winning 43 of the 57 games in charge of the Rubro-Negro.
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Jorge Jesus returned to Benfica on 3 August 2020, signing a two-year contract with the club.
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Jorge Jesus was replaced by then Benfica B coach, Nelson Verissimo.
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Jorge Jesus arrived at Istanbul on May 31,2022, and toured the stadium on June 1,2022.
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Jorge Jesus married his second wife, Ivone, and the couple had a son, Mauro.
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Jorge Jesus recovered eighty percent of that amount in March 2014.
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In March 2020, Jorge Jesus tested positive for COVID-19 virus during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Jorge Jesus had previously requested that Brazilian football shut down due to the virus.