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

Cesar Peixoto arrives at Wolves as a relative unknown in England, fresh from guiding Gil Vicente to sixth in the Portuguese First Division.

According to ExpressAndStar.com, it is the club’s most left-field pick since Fosun’s first appointment, Walter Zenga. Unlike Zenga, an Italy international with 300-plus Inter Milan games, Peixoto’s Portugal career amounted to minutes off the bench in a 2008 friendly defeat to Brazil.

Job moves have been frequent. This is his ninth post in a little over seven years, including repeat spells at two separate clubs.

His 16 months at Gil Vicente, since February last year, is his longest stint. Previously he had never stayed beyond 30 matches in one role.

A Vitor Guimaraes academy product, he started at Cacadores Taipas and broke into the top flight with Belenenses. He joined Porto as Jose Mourinho’s reputation grew, but a Champions League knee injury against Marseille stalled him and he missed the subsequent European triumph.

Loans to Guimaraes and Espanyol followed with a switch to left-back. He joined Braga in 2007, then Benfica in 2009, winning the 2010 double, before ending at Gil Vicente and retiring in 2014.

His coaching began at Varzim, helping avoid relegation, then brief spells at Coimbra, Chaves and Moreirense, 33 games in all. Two stints at Pacos Ferreira, the second ending in relegation in 2023, were followed by a year out, a seven-month return to Moreirense, then Gil Vicente, where his rise resumed and which Wolves will hope continues.

Source: ExpressAndStar.com