Faria was assistant for Mourinho at a host of top clubs including Chelsea, Inter, Real Madrid and Manchester United over 17 years.
Doha: Rui Faria, an assistant to Jose Mourinho at a number of Europe’s biggest teams, has become head coach at Qatari league side Al Duhail, the club announced yesterday.
It is the 43-year-old’s first job since leaving Manchester United, as Mourinho’s number two, last year.
“The club administration has succeeded in hiring Portuguese coach Rui Faria to lead the team... during the coming period after intensive negotiations,” the club said in an announcement posted on Twitter.
It said that Duhail had beaten off several offers from other clubs to secure Faria as its coach.
Faria was assistant for Mourinho -- who is also in Qatar at the moment working as a pundit for beIN Sports -- at a host of top clubs including Chelsea, Inter, Real Madrid and Manchester United over 17 years.
He surprisingly called time on their partnership last year at Old Trafford after working with Mourinho.
Mourinho’s troubled spell as Manchester United boss ended last month.
Mourinho, 55, said on Thursday that he would return to top-level football after leaving the English club and was “too young to retire”.
It is the second noticeable coach appointment made by a Qatari club in recent weeks, after former Iceland boss Heimir Hallgrimsson was unveiled as Al Arabi’s boss in December.
Duhail currently stand second in the Qatar Stars League, two points behind Al Sadd, who could be coached by Barcelona legend Xavi Hernandez from next season.
Faria will replace Nabil Maaloul, who was the coach of the Tunisian national side at the World Cup last year in Russia, which lost to semi-finalists Belgium and England.
