Ferreira, a professor against Atltico

Jesualdo Ferreira (Mirandela, Portugal, 1946) and it scared a few things as licking the age where others smell retirement. Andalusia Porto coach the opportunity came late on the edge of the 60, but knows that he is now in a position to request, and Pinto da Costa, president of the club, he is not proving easy renewal.

A guy who spent his childhood in Angola, which suffered the rigors of football and that was more modest about to lose a stepchild by a bacterium known there is nothing to change the look. Even Atletico Madrid. "Cherry says that playing half of that in the Bernabeu will happen. Well, playing less than half", and it was so quiet on Tuesday at his press conference.

Sentence does justice to the personality of Ferreira, Bachelor of Sport Sciences, University of Lisbon, a guy stuck in the books, a lover of the holiday in the Algarve with his second wife, Zulmira, a consulting business 48 years very attractive, and their two daughters, the fruit of a first marriage. Ferreira, which part of the Portuguese press nicknamed Doctor paused in his speech and his experience of white hair, takes two and a half years at the helm of the Port, which has two championship courses in the preceding.

When he arrived in the summer of 2006, terminated a contract with Boavista who was barely a month. Replaced Dutchman Co Adriaanse, which lasted 15 days in front of the dragons. It was the culmination of a career that began very bottom team in the regional Rio Maior or Torrens. Because his passion was always football. No left or when he went to live with their parents, to Angola, a former Portuguese colony, with only six years. Being a teenager and returned to study, and lived the early years of the return along with their uncles. There was a phrase that carries since and repeats over and over. "I quit my family, my friends quit, but my principles will never resign."

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The worst passage of his life when, in 2006, her stepson Edward was on the brink of death after a visit to ... dentist. The boy was infected by a mysterious bacteria that had entered the ICU of a hospital for 10 days, until doctors discovered the source of infection and Eduardo saved lives. "So every day has to be a challenge, and put all their heart to do what is necessary, "says Ferreira, who is also known in Portugal for the metaphors it uses. Last year, after a run of bad results, he was asked if he feared for his job.

"I realize that the only true Porto win ...", was paused and continued:" In Porto win is like brushing their teeth, have it every day. " Met and his team took the road victories to finish as champions. In the past two years, the president has dismantled the template: Pepe (Real Madrid), Anderson (Manchester United), Bosingwa (Chelsea), Quaresma (Inter Milan, Chelsea sold in the market for winter), Paulo Assuno ( Atltico de Madrid). In return, he has returned to rebuild the block, making its largest real figure as Mourinho's successor.

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Porto won the Champions League with Inter today's technical, along andalusia Duero have been looking for a similar. Not triumphed Luigi Del Neri, Victor Fernandez, Jos Couceiro and Co Adriaanse. The professor, a guy who coached the selection Angolan andalusia FAR Rabat and sub'21 Portuguese on track to do so. With permission from Atletico.