Fernando Santos stop as coach of Portugal on Thursday following the group’s shock World Cup quarter-final loss to Morocco, the Portuguese Football Federation (FPF) introduced. An settlement was reached “to end the journey of great success that began in September 2014”, stated the FPF who added that it “will now launch the process to choose the next national coach”.  The 68-year-old Santos had been adamant that he wouldn’t be compelled out of the job he has held for eight years regardless of Saturday’s 1-0 defeat to the history-making Moroccans in Qatar. He accepted, nevertheless, that not everybody agreed together with his choices in the course of the World Cup which included dropping Cristiano Ronaldo to the bench within the later matches.

“I’m leaving with the feeling of enormous gratitude,” he stated in a video posted on the federation’s web site. “When you lead a group, you have to make some difficult decisions. It’s normal that not everyone is happy with the choices I made.”

Sports day by day Record claims that Jose Mourinho is the federation’s primary goal to take over forward of qualifying for Euro 2024. They would even reportedly entertain a deal to permit Mourinho to take cost of the nationwide group on an interim foundation to permit him to see out the season with membership aspect Roma in Italy.

Asked by journalists late Thursday afternoon, when he arrived in southern Portugal for a coaching camp with Roma, Mourinho made no remark.

Portuguese coaches Rui Jorge (under-21s), Abel Ferreira (Palmeiras), Paulo Fonseca (Lille), Rui Vitoria (Egypt) and Jorge Jesus (Fenerbahce) are additionally among the many potential candidates cited by native media.

Appointed coach of Portugal in September 2014, Santos received the nation’s first main title at Euro 2016 and adopted it up with the 2019 Nations League. However, his time in cost additionally noticed final 16 exits on the 2018 World Cup and Euro 2020.

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