In profile: The lowdown on incoming Wolves boss Cesar Peixoto | OneFootball

Cesar Peixoto arrives in English football as a virtual unknown, arguably Wolves’ most leftfield appointment since Fosun chose Walter Zenga. According to ExpressAndStar.com, his profile is far lower than Zenga’s.

Peixoto’s Portugal career totals only a few late minutes in a 2008 friendly defeat to Brazil. The pair do share one trait, frequent moves between jobs.

This will be his ninth appointment in just over seven years, including two spells at two different clubs. His best and most consistent work has been at Gil Vicente, who finished sixth in the Portuguese First Division last season. His 16 months there is the longest stint of his career, after rarely reaching 30 matches elsewhere.

A Vitor Guimaraes academy product, he started as a left winger in the fourth tier with Cacadores Taipas, then stepped up to Belenenses and Porto. A serious knee injury in a Champions League tie against Marseille stalled his progress and he missed the European triumph. Loans to Guimaraes and Espanyol coincided with a switch to left-back.

He joined Braga in 2007, moved to Benfica in 2009 and won the league and cup double in 2010, before a two-and-a-half year spell at Gil Vicente and retirement in 2014. Nearly five years on he began coaching at Varzim, avoiding relegation, then brief stints at Coimbra, Chaves and Moreirense totalled 33 matches. Two spells at Pacos Ferreira ended with relegation in 2023, a return to Moreirense in summer 2024 lasted seven months, before being sacked, and Gil Vicente revived his trajectory.

Source: ExpressAndStar.com