New Wolves head coach Cesar Peixoto - by the numbers | OneFootball

As Cesar Peixoto takes charge at Wolves, his journey can be tracked through the numbers that shaped it.

ExpressAndStar.com notes he began his youth career at Vitoria Guimaraes in 1991, then left for fourth-division Cacadores Taipas in 1999 to break into senior football.

A first season at Belenenses brought seven goals, one a long-range strike against Porto, who signed him in 2002. He played intermittently for the 2004 Champions League winners, missed the run-in with a serious knee injury, then finished his Porto stint on loan at Espanyol.

After Porto he played for Braga, Benfica and Gil Vicente, and earned one international cap in 2008, coming on late in a 6-2 friendly defeat to Brazil.

Wolves is his ninth managerial role. He started at Varzim in the second tier and kept them up, then moved to Academia, lasting five months in a difficult stint. He later took Chaves, had two spells at top-flight Moreirense either side of two at Pacos de Ferreira, who were relegated, before returning to Gil Vicente.

At Gil Vicente he secured survival, then in his first full season finished sixth. It remains his longest job, 46 matches, with a 34.78 win percentage. They ended clear of Moreirense in seventh and were nine points short of Europe.

This will be his first time playing or managing a competitive game for a club outside Portugal. He is tasked with attempting to guide Wolves back to the Premier League at the first attempt.

Source: ExpressAndStar.com