Luís Campos (football)
association football player
Luís Filipe Hipólito Reis Pedrosa Campos (born 6 September 1964) is a Portuguese football executive and former manager who works as Football Advisor for Ligue 1 club Paris Saint-Germain.
Career
As a player, Campos had a relatively short career, playing as a right-back for his local clubs Esposende and Fão.
Campos began coaching in the lower leagues of Portugal at the age of 27 with Leiria, and managed several amateur teams and eventually professional teams in the Portuguese Primeira Liga. As manager of Gil Vicente, Campos ended José Mourinho's 27-game unbeaten streak with Porto. In 2012, Campos was a scout and tactical analyst for Real Madrid under Mourinho.
Campos made his name as sporting director at Monaco from 2013 to 2016. He oversaw the transfers of Radamel Falcao, João Moutinho, James Rodríguez, Fabinho, Anthony Martial, Ricardo Carvalho, Dimitar Berbatov, Bernardo Silva, Tiémoué Bakayoko, Geoffrey Kondogbia, and Thomas Lemar amongst others. On his arrival at Monaco in 2013, Campos found academy forward Kylian Mbappé unsettled; after watching him “for 10 minutes,” he urged the player to stay, placed him with the B team and, within two months, supported his promotion to the first team. He became the sporting director of Lille in 2017. On 18 December 2020, Campos left Lille after a change of ownership at the club.
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