Hugo Pereira

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Hugo Pereira
Personal information
Full name Hugo Carlos Rodrigues Ganchinho Pereira
Date of birth (1978-11-06) 6 November 1978 (age 43)
Place of birth Portugal
Position(s) Striker
Club information
Current team
 Ranheim (Head coach)
Youth career
1990–1998 Benfica
1995–1996 → Alverca (loan)
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1998–1999 Montijo
1999–2001
2001–2002 Juventude
2002–2004 Amora 67 (12)
2004–2005 Estrela Vendas Novas 18 (3)
2005–2006 Alcochetense
2006–2007 Oeiras
Teams managed
2012–2013 Follo (assistant)
2013–2016 Rosenborg (player developer)
2017–2018 Rosenborg (assistant)
2019–2021 Colombia (assistant)
2021– Ranheim
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only

Hugo Carlos Rodrigues Ganchinho Pereira (born 6 November 1978), is a Portuguese football coach and former player. He is currently head coach for Ranheim. He was also assistant manager of Kåre Ingebrigtsen at Rosenborg along with Erik Hoftun. During his period at the club, Pereira contributed to two Norwegian league titles, two Norwegian super cup and one Norwegian cup.

Biography[]

Hugo Pereira was a youth player at Benfica but never managed to take the step up to professional football. After playing amateur football for about 10 years, Pereira retired and instead started pursuing a career as a football manager.[1] Pereira has a master degree in Education and a post-graduation in High Performance Football Coaching from the University of Lisbon.[2] In 2012, Pereira became the assistant manager and academy director of Follo.[3] Due to the club struggling with finances, Pereira stepped down after the season to spare the club money. In 2013, he left for Rosenborg to enter the position of a player developer at the Rosenborg academy.[4] In January 2017 he became the assistant manager of Kåre Ingebrigtsen at Rosenborg alongside Erik Hoftun.[5]

In January 2017, Pereira was chosen as one of two to spend a week with José Mourinho at Manchester United.[6][7] This came to be through the High Performance Football Coaching course at the University of Lisbon where Mourinho would choose the two that impressed the most. From among several other contenders coincidence had it that the other one chosen to visit José Mourinho was Norwegian , former Follo player at the time Pereira was at Follo who had also attended the course.

Managerial statistics[]

As of 20 November 2021

Team Nat From To Record
G W D L Win %
Ranheim Norway 7 July 2021 Present 22 9 4 9 040.91
Total 22 9 4 9 040.91

References[]

  1. ^ "ForaDeJogo.net - Hugo Pereira (Hugo Carlos Rodrigues Ganchinho Pereira)". ForaDeJogo. Retrieved 2017-07-19.
  2. ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2017-02-02. Retrieved 2017-02-02.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  3. ^ "Østlandets Blad - Portugisisk topptrener til Follo FK". www.oblad.no (in Norwegian). Retrieved 2017-07-19.
  4. ^ "RBKweb - artikkel". www.rbkweb.no. Retrieved 2017-07-19.
  5. ^ "Hugo Pereira inn i trenerteamet". Rosenborg (in Norwegian Bokmål). Retrieved 2017-07-19.
  6. ^ "Mourinho valgte Hugo". Rosenborg (in Norwegian Bokmål). Retrieved 2017-07-19.
  7. ^ "Mourinho rewards coaching students - Official Manchester United Website". www.manutd.com. Retrieved 2017-07-19.
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