Joao Sacramento

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Has an air of fear about him, big step up and he's feeling it IMO. When we went 0-2 Vs Olympiacos I noticed he looked petrified walking up to Mourinho (as I suspect he didn't have changes to mind, just fear).

Not sold in psychological terms, no doubt he is a bright minded young man, just needs to learn some streets on persona.

No diss, just interpretations of my filter.

Allegedly he's a big fan of roast beef & yorkshire pudding..... How's this play into things, boss?
 
He's 30 years of age. Give him a chance to gain a little more experience at this level before the daggers are out when it comes to parts of his make up.

30 and assistant manager at Tottenham Hotspur, the blokes clearly going to have something about him so like most players when they go to a new club or country let's give him time.

I agree, and said it isn't a diss.

Time will tell if he settles down, which I think he will if Jose does well here, but have concern how the relationship will work if there is a lot of turbulence, is all.
 
Allegedly he's a big fan of roast beef & yorkshire pudding..... How's this play into things, boss?

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Joao Sacramento was 18 years old when he left his hometown of Barcelos in northern Portugal to move to South Wales and pursue his dream of becoming a football manager, and little more than 10 years later he had achieved it – for seven games at least.

The Tottenham Hotspur assistant manager, appointed by Jose Mourinhowhen he took over in November, still has the best points-per-game average of any of Lille’s three managers during their 2017-2018 season; a trio that includes Marcelo Bielsa, sacked before Christmas. Sacramento managed Lille for six Ligue 1 games and one League Cup defeat up to the winter break, a run which included a win away at Lyon when the caretaker manager was still just 28.

Now 31, he is the latest of a coaching generation led by Mourinho who are students of the tactical periodisation model developed by the Portuguese professor Vitor Frade, whose ideas first took hold when the current Spurs manager studied coaching in Lisbon in the mid-1980s. They are both coaches who excelled academically and, as demonstrated by that famous clip from the Manchester City game of them sprinting from the bench to the fourth official, there is also a shared sense of football’s injustices.

Sacramento was a good student but he also took his opportunity to make the jump from lecturer at what was then the University of Glamorgan – now University of South Wales (USW) – by connecting with one of the more influential figures in Portuguese football.

That was Luis Campos, the sporting director of Lille, and a close ally of Mourinho for whom he worked at Real Madrid. Campos comes from near to Barcelos and it was to him that Sacramento sent his USW thesis for which he had been given access to the training and matchday data of a Premier League club. He also sent detailed reports on Real Madrid’s opposition and Campos was so impressed he invited him to the club, beginning Sacramento’s connection to those in football’s most powerful roles.

Sacramento began with no connections in football beyond his period as a midfielder in the academy of Portuguese Primeira Liga side SC Braga. His father Ernestino, an electrical engineer, discovered the USW undergraduate BSc course in football coaching and performance. Ernestino was eager that his son follow his dreams having been discouraged himself as a teenager from pursuing music – he is a talented guitarist.

Sacramento’s first job as an assistant was to the manager of the USW first XI, Dave Adams, who is now the technical director at the Football Association of Wales. They had three promotions to the British University and College Sports Premier South. “A lot of kids have that dream to be a manager,” Adams says. “Joao had that skill and drive. He was a different kind of character. He was very academic which is quite rare in football.

“He studied all the disciplines. He was interested in video analysis and sports science and how players learn. His diverse skillset has helped him over time as he has got more confident. You look at how he has showed he can work with players and build relationships which is crucial at the elite level. Even then with the university team he was younger than a few of our players. He has always been used to that environment.”

Adams says Sacramento proved a very able video analyst capable of spotting details in games and preparing clips quickly so that coaches could make simple but important points to players. Sacramento coached the Cardiff City under-15s for three years and then moved on to working with the Wales national teams as a video analyst while he completed his masters in coaching and performance at USW, where he was awarded a FAW scholarship. The access he was granted to a Premier League side for his thesis marked him out as someone who was viewed as credible by a major club. He also completed his Uefa B and A licenses and worked as a lecturer.

It was the presentation of his thesis to Campos that changed his career. When Mourinho left Real for Chelsea in 2013, Campos instead went to Monaco and in April 2014 approached Sacramento to become head of the club’s analysis department. He worked first for Claudio Ranieri and then under the Venezuela-born Portuguese national Leonardo Jardim, back at the club now in his second spell. Jardim gave Sacramento access to training sessions and opened the possibility that he might move from analysis to coaching.

When Campos became sporting director of Lille in Jan 2017 he took a chance on appointing Sacramento as an assistant first team coach. Bielsa took over Lille in May, his time there brief and troubled.

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He and Campos were widely regarded to have very different views on the direction going forward and when the Argentine was suspended – and subsequently sacked in November with the team in a relegation fight – Sacramento took over. His team beat Toulouse as well as Lyon and drew at home to Nice. Christophe Galtier was then appointed and the side finished outside the relegation play-off place by one point, with Sacramento having played a crucial role.

Established as a coach and endorsed by Campos, it was inevitable that Sacramento would come to the attention of Mourinho again. They had met briefly in Madrid and, taking a break after Manchester United, Mourinho was looking for a young assistant who had an appetite for hard work, could connect with players and would complement his style. They met to discuss that possibility of working with one another when Mourinho’s next offer came.

The shared philosophy of tactical periodisation is crucial to their work. At its core is the acknowledgement that the four key elements – technical, physical, tactical and mental – cannot be separated. They are interdependent on one another and training must acknowledge that without all functioning, players cannot operate fully. All training exercises are in line with the specifics of the “game model” which the team is preparing for its next match.

Like Mourinho, Sacramento started at the very bottom of the pyramid and worked for his breaks. Mourinho was a PE teacher at the end of the 1980s and his big break came after he worked his way up the ranks at his local club Setubal from youth coach to first team assistant. He eventually followed manager Manuel Fernandes to another club, Estrela Amadora, and then became Bobby Robson’s assistant at Sporting Lisbon, originally as an interpreter. Like Sacramento, Mourinho also completed his coaching badges in Britain – with the Scottish Football Association in Largs.

It is a long road for those seeking to get to the top without a famous name, or playing career, to launch them. They need a facility for languages, the willingness to travel and a determination to get the attention of those in powerful positions. How far can Sacramento go? “He has that great drive,” Adams says, and so far the career built by a teenager arrived in South Wales from Portugal would suggest he could go a lot further.
 
I truly believe Sacramento deserves a MASSIVE amount of credit for helping Jose Modernise.

Jose maybe is having his Ferguson renaissance when he switched up his coaching staff on every cycle, was possibly to loyal to Rui Faria etc.
 
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