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Jose Morais will take up his duties as head coach at Jeonbuk Hyundai Motors after the departure of incumbent Choi Kang-hee at the end of the season, said the K-League champion.
Morais, who has worked with Manchester United manager Jose Mourinho during stays in Benfica, Inter Milan, Real Madrid and Chelsea, will become the club's first foreign coach.
"Given his great experience of European football, we felt that Morais was the ideal coach for the philosophy of our club," Yonhap news agency quoted the agency as saying on Thursday. Yonhap.
Choi guided Jeonbuk to six league titles and two wins in two in the AFC Champions League, the first of which began in 2005. He is expected to leave for Chinese club Tianjin Quanjian.
Morais joined Mourinho during a brief stint in Benfica before joining his compatriot at Inter Milan during the 2009-10 season, where he guided the club to the Serie A titles, League of Nations. Champions and Cup of Italy.
The two men then moved to Spain, where they helped Real Madrid claim a double in cup and cup, before joining forces in Chelsea, where they won a Premier League title in 2014-15.
Morais, 53, has also coached Tunisia, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, Greece, England and Ukraine.
His arrival follows the appointment of his compatriot Paulo Bento to the post of South Korean coach in August.
The former boss of Portugal, Bento, had a good start to the match. The team remained undefeated in six games to strengthen its favorite status for the Asian Cup next year.
Jeonbuk won his second league title in October with six games to play. They end their campaign against Gyeongnam FC on Sunday.
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