my current rating is 7/10
he started off badly, Portugal was generally piss poor in the friendlies leading up to EURO 2004....the 3-0 debacle against Spain for example, two loses to Italy, they just didnt look any good going into Euro 2004 (only two good results was 2-1 vs brasil WHEN HE FIRST STARTED and 1-1 England is alrite i guess. He played the wrong team against Greece, Couto? ??? this man didnt even start Carvalho! Rui Jorge playes, then after we lost 2-1 to Greece he changes the team to the one most fans knew was correct and then we suddenly played good but honestly the team chemistry was never the most impressive.
Once we got to the final against Greece it was hard, our teamwork wasnt the greatest but Greece's was and with some luck from God they scored a stupid goal and hanged on to win it.
Since euro 2004 I feel he has done a good job, the teamwork is much better, Portugal is a much better unit then the euro 2004 team IMO. and we qualified for the Worldcup undefeated in a relatively easy group but we did it impressively and in style.
We looked great coming into the World cup, but with Jorge Andrades injury more questions are raised and Im just not looking forward to it all as much but Im confident Portugal will still do better than in 2002.
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