Jaime Pacheco

In this Portuguese name, the first or maternal family name is Moreiraand the second or paternal family name is Pacheco.

Jaime Pacheco

Pacheco with Beijing Guoan in 2011
Personal information
Full name	Jaime Moreira Pacheco [1]
Date of birth	(1958-07-22) 22 July 1958 (age 66) [1]
Place of birth	Paredes, Portugal [1]
Height	1.70 m (5 ft 7 in) [1]
Position(s)	Midfielder
Team information
Current team	Pyramids (manager)
Youth career
	Rebordosa
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
1976–1979	Aliados Lordelo
1979–1984	Porto	81	(9)
1984–1986	Sporting CP	39	(2)
1986–1989	Porto	55	(4)
1989–1991	Vitória Setúbal	52	(2)
1991–1993	Paços Ferreira	52	(1)
1993–1994	Braga	17	(1)
1994–1995	Rio Ave	9	(0)
1995	Paredes
Total		305	(19)
International career
1983–1990	Portugal	25	(0)
Managerial career
1993	Paços Ferreira (player-coach)
1994	Paços Ferreira
1994–1995	Rio Ave (player-coach)
1995–1996	União Lamas
1996–1997	Vitória Guimarães
1997–2003	Boavista
2003	Mallorca
2004–2005	Boavista
2005	Vitória Guimarães
2006–2008	Boavista
2008–2009	Belenenses
2009–2010	Al Shabab
2011–2012	Beijing Guoan
2014	Zamalek
2015	Al Shabab
2016–2017	Tianjin TEDA
2020–2021	Zamalek
2023–	Pyramids
Medal record Men's football Representing   Portugal UEFA European Championship 1984 France
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Jaime Moreira Pacheco (born 22 July 1958) is a Portuguese former footballer who played as a central midfielder, currently manager of Egyptian Premier League club Pyramids FC.

During his career he played, among others, for Porto and Sporting CP, amassing Primeira Liga totals of 296 matches and 19 goals over 15 seasons. Subsequently, he worked as a manager for several clubs for more than two decades, including Boavista which he led to its only league title.

A Portugal international on 25 occasions, Pacheco represented the country at the 1986 World Cup and Euro 1984.

Playing career

Club

Born in Paredes, Pacheco arrived at FC Porto from lowly Aliados do Lordelo FC, then in the second division. He eventually consolidated himself in the team's starting XI, playing more than 100 competitive matches during his first spell.

In the summer of 1984, Pacheco signed with another Primeira Liga club, Sporting CP, moving alongside teammate António Sousa as part of the deal that sent 17-year-old prodigy Paulo Futre in the opposite direction. ^[2] The pair returned after two seasons, proceeding to win the European Cup, the Intercontinental Cup and the UEFA Super Cup whilst appearing regularly (Sousa more than Pacheco).

Pacheco joined Vitória F.C. aged 31, ^[3] playing two seasons with both them and F.C. Paços de Ferreira and another with S.C. Braga – always in the top flight – retiring at the end of 1995 with amateurs U.S.C. Paredes.

International

Pacheco made his debut for the Portugal national team on 23 February 1983, in a 1–0 friendly win over West Germany. In the following seven years, he won a further 24 caps without scoring. ^[4]

Pacheco represented the nation at both UEFA Euro 1984 and the 1986 FIFA World Cup, both as a leading player. ^[5] After a four-year absence he made his final appearance, playing in a 0–0 Euro 1992 qualifier against Finland, on 12 September 1990.

Coaching career

Pacheco took up coaching while still an active footballer, starting with Paços Ferreira. In early 1994 he left Braga (as a player), and returned to the former in the same capacity. In a similar move, he would again act as player-coach, now at Rio Ave FC, and leave Paredes for Vitória S.C. midway through the 1995–96 season, after which he concentrated solely on management; also with the Minho side, he managed a fifth place in the 1996–97 campaign and a third in the following. ^[6]

Pacheco was responsible for Boavista FC's greatest ever success, the league championship in 2001, followed by a participation in the second group stage of the UEFA Champions League and a 2002–03 UEFA Cup semi-final run. ^[7] These achievements prompted the interest of La Liga club RCD Mallorca in June 2003, but he was dismissed in September after just five matches and one win, ^[8] immediately returning to Boavista as a replacement for sacked Erwin Sánchez, whom he had previously managed there. ^[9]

Following a poor run of results, Pacheco stood down in April 2005. He was then contracted by Vitória Guimarães but resigned in December, ^[10] after which he again moved to his main club.

Pacheco was at Boavista's helm when the Porto team were relegated to division two at the end of the 2007–08 season, due to the Apito Dourado affair. ^[11] He then signed with C.F. Os Belenenses, ^[12] but left by mutual agreement in May 2009 as the Lisbon side were eventually relegated – later reinstated. ^[13]

Pacheco joined Al Shabab FC (Riyadh) in 2009, winning the Prince Faisal bin Fahad Cup almost immediately. However, following a 0–1 group stage loss against Iran's Sepahan F.C. for the campaign's AFC Champions League on 15 April 2010, he was relieved of his duties. ^[14]

In December 2010, Pacheco was signed by Beijing Guoan F.C. of the Chinese Super League on a year-long contract. ^[15] In June of the following year, during a match against Tianjin Teda F.C. at Workers Stadium, he erected his middle finger to the referee and the opposite team, being punished with an eight-match suspension and a €4,265 fine by the Chinese Football Association. ^[16]

Pacheco moved to the third continent of his career in October 2014, when he was appointed at Egypt's Zamalek SC as a replacement for the dismissed Hossam Hassan. ^[17] At the turn of the new year, he unexpectedly quit the league leaders to return to Al-Shabab; ^[18] he had a record of eight wins and a draw from ten games and felt disrespected by the club's board. ^[19] His second spell in Riyadh lasted just until March 2015, when he left by mutual consent to deal with undisclosed personal issues at home. ^[20]

In August 2016, Pacheco returned to China's top flight by agreeing to a one-year deal with Tianjin Teda. ^[21] Having completed his goal of keeping them in the league that year, he left the next May after a five-game winless run in the opening stages of the following campaign. ^[22]

Pacheco returned to Zamalek on 23 September 2020. ^[23] On 12 March 2021, he was dismissed. ^[24]

On 5 January 2023, Pacheco took over Pyramids FC also in the Egyptian Premier League. ^[25]

Managerial statistics

As of match played 22 August 2024 ^{[26] [27]}

Managerial record by team and tenure

Team	From	To	Record					Ref.
			P	W	D	L	Win %
Vitória Guimarães	15 January 1996	4 November 1997	6	1	2	3	016.7
Boavista	8 December 1997	30 June 2003	145	70	39	36	048.3
Mallorca	25 July 2003	30 September 2003	8	3	1	4	037.5
Boavista	8 March 2004	30 April 2005	45	19	12	14	042.2
Vitória Guimarães	24 May 2005	9 December 2005	18	5	2	11	027.8
Boavista	23 October 2006	19 May 2008	60	17	22	21	028.3
Belenenses	9 October 2008	11 May 2009	29	7	8	14	024.1
Al Shabab	13 July 2009	15 April 2010	54	33	13	8	061.1
Beijing Guoan	1 January 2011	18 November 2012	69	29	20	20	042.0
Zamalek	10 October 2014	31 December 2014	12	9	2	1	075.0
Al Shabab	16 January 2015	31 March 2015	12	3	4	5	025.0
Tianjin TEDA	2 August 2016	30 May 2017	24	9	3	12	037.5
Zamalek	28 September 2020	12 March 2021	27	17	6	4	063.0
Pyramids	5 January 2023	present	54	29	16	9	053.7
Total			563	251	150	162	044.6	—

Honours

Player

Porto

• Primeira Liga: 1987–88
• Taça de Portugal: 1983–84, 1987–88
• Supertaça Cândido de Oliveira: 1981, 1983, 1986
• European Cup: 1986–87
• Intercontinental Cup: 1987
• UEFA Super Cup: 1987

Manager

Boavista

• Primeira Liga: 2000–01 ^[28]

Al Shabab

• Saudi Federation Cup: 2009–10

References

1. Jaime Pacheco at WorldFootball.net
2. "Futre. "Eles disseram-me que estava louco e fui para o Porto"" [Futre. "They told me I was crazy and I went to Porto"]. i (in Portuguese). 1 August 2014. Retrieved 14 November 2018.
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7. "Jaime Pacheco, nuevo entrenador del Mallorca" [Jaime Pacheco, new manager of Mallorca]. El Mundo (in Spanish). 25 July 2003. Retrieved 6 March 2019.
8. "Jaime Pacheco, destituido como entrenador del Mallorca" [Jaime Pacheco, dismissed as manager of Mallorca] (in Spanish). Cadena SER. 30 September 2003. Retrieved 6 March 2019.
9. "Jaime Pacheco quer Boavista "audaz e ambicioso" frente ao FC Porto" [Jaime Pacheco wants "bold and ambitious" Boavista against FC Porto]. Público (in Portuguese). 11 March 2004. Retrieved 26 January 2021.
10. "Jaime Pacheco abandona Vitória de Guimarães" [Jaime Pacheco leaves Vitória de Guimarães] (in Portuguese). TVI 24. 9 December 2005. Retrieved 19 September 2017.
11. "Boavista não quer fazer papel de vítima" [Boavista do not want to play the victim] (in Portuguese). Rádio e Televisão de Portugal. 4 April 2008. Retrieved 27 January 2021.
12. "Jaime Pacheco apresentado no Restelo" [Jaime Pacheco announced at the Restelo] (in Portuguese). C.F. Os Belenenses. 9 October 2008. Archived from the original on 11 December 2008. Retrieved 12 May 2009.
13. Valente, Susana (12 May 2009). "Belenenses: Jaime Pacheco rescinde e é substituído por Rui Jorge" [Belenenses: Jaime Pacheco rescinds and is replaced by Rui Jorge] (in Portuguese). Relvado. Retrieved 27 January 2021.
14. "Pacheco leaves Al-Shabab post". PortuGOAL. 15 April 2010. Retrieved 15 April 2010.
15. "Jaime Pacheco em Pequim na próxima semana" [Jaime Pacheco in Beijing next week]. Record (in Portuguese). 30 December 2010. Retrieved 6 March 2019.
16. Somerford, Ben (30 June 2011). "Portuguese coach Jaime Pacheco suspended for eight matches after obscene gesture in China". Goal . Retrieved 6 March 2019.
17. Elassal, Mahmoud (12 October 2014). "Egypt's Zamalek names Portuguese Pacheco as new coach". Al-Ahram . Retrieved 6 March 2019.
18. Omar, Eslam (1 January 2015). "New year shock for Zamalek as coach Pacheco 'escapes'". Al-Ahram. Retrieved 6 March 2019.
19. "Jaime Pacheco conta como saiu do Zamalek" [Jaime Pacheco reveals how he left Zamalek]. Record (in Portuguese). 5 January 2015. Retrieved 6 March 2019.
20. "Jaime Pacheco rescinde com Al-Shabab" [Jaime Pacheco resigns from Al-Shabab]. O Jogo (in Portuguese). 27 March 2015. Retrieved 6 March 2019.
21. "Jaime Pacheco apresentado no Tianjin Teda" [Jaime Pacheco presented at Tianjin Teda] (in Portuguese). Mais Futebol. 2 August 2016. Retrieved 6 March 2019.
22. "Jaime Pacheco rescinde com o Tianjin Teda" [Jaime Pacheco resigns from Tianjin Teda]. Diário de Notícias (in Portuguese). 29 May 2017. Retrieved 6 March 2019.
23. Wagih, Ahmed (23 September 2020). "Zamalek reach agreement with Pacheco, announcement imminent". KingFut . Retrieved 24 September 2020.
24. "Oficial: Jaime Pacheco deixa o Zamalek apesar de liderar o campeonato" [Official: Jaime Pacheco leaves Zamalek despite leading the championship]. O Jogo (in Portuguese). 12 March 2021. Retrieved 12 March 2021.
25. Soliman, Seif (5 January 2023). "OFFICIAL: Jaime Pacheco appointed new Pyramids FC head coach". KingFut. Retrieved 6 January 2023.
26. "Jaime Pacheco". Zerozero. Retrieved 26 January 2021.
27. Jaime Pacheco coach profile at Soccerway
28. Carvalho Reis, Joana (18 May 2016). "Lembra-se deles? Há 15 anos o Boavista foi campeão nacional" [Remember them? Boavista were national champions 15 years ago] (in Portuguese). TSF . Retrieved 27 January 2021.

External links

• Jaime Pacheco at ForaDeJogo (archived)
• Jaime Pacheco manager stats at ForaDeJogo (archived)
• Jaime Pacheco at National-Football-Teams.com
• Jaime Pacheco – FIFA competition record (archived)
• Jaime Pacheco at EU-Football.info