Luís Pimenta (football manager)

Luís Pimenta
Personal information
Full name Luís Berkemeier Pimenta
Date of birth (1981-09-25) 25 September 1981
Place of birth Lisbon, Portugal
Teams managed
Years Team
2011–2013 Hønefoss (youth coach)
2014 Hønefoss (assistant)
2014–2016 Kongsvinger
2018 Brommapojkarna

Luís Berkemeier Pimenta (born 25 September 1981) is a Portuguese football manager.

Personal life

Pimenta was born in Lisbon, Portugal to a Portuguese father and a German mother.[1] At the age of 5, he moved to Luxembourg with his family.[2]

Managerial career

At 15, Pimenta decided that he wanted to pursue a career as a football manager, and completed all his UEFA training courses. From Luxembourg he returned to the Portuguese capital to study human kinetics at the university. During the degree course, he went to Liverpool to take a course in psychology and football science, as well as deepen his knowledge of English. Back in Portugal, he met Gonçalo Pereira, destined to be his deputy for years to come. After finishing the course, Pimenta and Pereira entered the technical staff of Rui Jorge at Belenenses. At the same time, Pimenta worked at the Academia Carlos Queiroz in Carnaxide.

Pimenta was invited to manage the youth academy of the Norwegian club of Hønefoss. He became the assistant manager of Roar Johansen in 2014, but they were both released that year.[3]

In September 2014, he became the manager of Kongsvinger replacing André Bergdølmo, where Pimenta got his first experience as head coach.[4] He helped the team get promoted from the 3. divisjon to the 2. Divisjon 20 points ahead of their closest rivals. The next year, Konsginver finished in fifth and qualified for the promotion playoffs, and more surprisingly made the 2016 Norwegian Football Cup final, losing to Rosenborg BK.[5] At the end of the season, he declined offers of renewal and left the club.[6]

After a year off, Pimenta became the head coach of the Swedish club IF Brommapojkarna in the 2018 Allsvenskan, after two seasons of successive promotions by Olof Mellberg. Again, he brought Gonçalo Pereira as his deputy.[7] In August 2018, several players came forward, although under anonymity, to reveal a leadership influenced by racism, penalism and sexism.[8][9] Together with his assistant coach, Gonçalo Pereira, he was sacked on 5 September after an internal investigation had been launched by the club's managing director, Henrik Nilsson.[10]

References

  1. ↑ NRK. "Pimenta sikter mot drømmen".
  2. ↑ "Pimenta já é uma lenda na fortaleza de Kongsvinger - Maisfutebol.iol.pt".
  3. ↑ "Hønefoss sparker treneren".
  4. ↑ "Var høyaktuell for KIL allerede i vinter". 1 September 2014.
  5. ↑ NRK. "Helland og Rosenborg lekte seg til cupfinaletriumf".
  6. ↑ "Suksesstreneren ferdig i Kongsvinger".
  7. ↑ "Portugis tar över BP".
  8. ↑ "Anklagar tränaren för pennalism och sexism". Aftonbladet. 31 August 2018.
  9. ↑ "Ble beskyldt for rasisme, sexisme og fryktledelse. Slik svarer han på anklagene". Aftenposten. 3 September 2018.
  10. ↑ "Förändringar i ledarstaben kring BPs allsvenska trupp". Brommapojkarna. 5 September 2018.
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