Rui Mota

Rui Mota
Personal information
Full name Rui Tomás Faustino Pinto da Mota
Date of birth (1979-03-26) 26 March 1979 (age 45)
Place of birth Lisbon, Portugal
Team information
Current team
 Noah (manager)
Managerial career
Years Team
2024 Dila Gori
2024– Noah

Rui Tomás Faustino Pinto da Mota (born 26 March 1979) is a Portuguese football manager. He is the manager of FC Noah in the Armenian Premier League.

Career

Born in Lisbon, Mota was a scout at Sporting CP from 2012 to 2016.[1] He was then assistant manager to former Portugal international Ricardo Sá Pinto at clubs in various countries: Al Fateh, Atromitos, Standard Liège, Legia Warsaw, Braga, Vasco da Gama, Gaziantep, Moreirense and Esteghlal.[2]

In September 2023, Mota was hired as under-19 manager at Šibenik in Croatia, having initially come to the club as a coach for the first team.[3] He quit before the turn of the year.[4]

Mota was given his first job as a head coach in January 2024, on a two-year deal at Dila Gori in Georgia's Erovnuli Liga.[5] In June, with his team leading the league season by a four-point margin, he left for FC Noah in the Armenian Premier League, who paid his release clause.[6] In the UEFA Conference League, his new club were the only one that season to advance from the first qualifying round to the playoffs, defeating Greece's AEK Athens in the third qualifying round, and then made it into the group stage.[7][8]

References

  1. ^ "Oficial: Já passou pelo Sporting e vai agora treinar na Geórgia" [Official: He already was at Sporting and now he will manage in Georgia] (in Portuguese). Notícias ao Minuto. 5 January 2024. Retrieved 9 November 2024.
  2. ^ Emms, Nick (5 November 2024). "Who are Chelsea's Conference League opponents FC Noah - manager, location & meaning behind name?". Sports Illustrated. Retrieved 9 November 2024.
  3. ^ Patafta, Patrik (29 September 2023). "Portugalac koji je trebao biti dio Carevićevog stožera preuzeo juniore, 'ministar obrane' vraća se ranije od očekivanog". Šibenski portal (in Croatian). Retrieved 9 November 2024.
  4. ^ "Portugalac otišao sa Šubićevca". Dalmatinski nogomet (in Croatian). 30 December 2023. Retrieved 9 November 2024.
  5. ^ Casaca, Manuel (4 January 2024). "Ex-adjunto de Sá Pinto vai treinar na Geórgia" [Ex-Sá Pinto assistant will manage in Georgia]. O Jogo (in Portuguese). Retrieved 9 November 2024.
  6. ^ Casaca, Manuel (14 June 2024). "Arménios pagam cláusula de recisão e levam treinador português" [Armenians pay release clause and take Portuguese manager]. O Jogo (in Portuguese). Retrieved 9 November 2024.
  7. ^ Begley, Emlyn (7 November 2024). "The team named after biblical character with Figo links". BBC Sport. Retrieved 9 November 2024.
  8. ^ Baioneta, Rui (26 August 2024). "Noah. Equipa mais portuguesa da Arménia brilha na Europa" [Noah. Most Portuguese team in Armenia shines in Europe]. Diário de Notícias (in Portuguese). Retrieved 9 November 2024.