Cesar Peixoto profiled, the incoming Wolves boss | OneFootball

Cesar Peixoto arrives in English football as an unknown, Wolves’ most leftfield pick since Walter Zenga.

ExpressAndStar.com notes this will be his ninth job little more than seven years into coaching, yet his best work has come at Gil Vicente. He led them to sixth in the Portuguese First Division last season.

He has been there 16 months since February last year, by far his longest spell after previously never passing 30 matches in one post.

A product of Vitor Guimaraes’ academy, he began as a left winger at fourth tier Cacadores Taipas before a top-flight break with Belenenses. He joined Porto under Jose Mourinho, but a Champions League knee injury against Marseille halted him and he missed the later European triumph.

Loans to Guimaraes and Espanyol followed and, converted to left-back, he signed for Braga in 2007. Two years later he moved to Benfica, winning the league and cup double in 2010, then ended his playing days with two and a half years at Gil Vicente before retiring in 2014.

Nearly five years later he started at Varzim in the Portuguese Second Division and kept them up. Brief spells at Coimbra, Chaves and Moreirense totalled 33 matches, then a second stint at Pacos Ferreira ended in relegation in 2023.

After a year out he returned to Moreirense in summer 2024, lasting seven months before the sack. Weeks later he joined Gil Vicente, from which point his career has trended upward, something Wolves will now hope continues.

Source: ExpressAndStar.com