Paris Saint-Germain has signed a new sporting director, Luis Campos, after competing with Real Madrid. Who is Luis Campos, and why insist on hiring him?
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Luis Campos
Last week, French club Paris Saint-Germain appointed Luis Campos as its sporting director, to succeed the Brazilian Leonardo, who was sacked with the end of the last round of the French League.
The Paris club confirmed, in a statement, that Campos’ mission will include organization, contracts, and follow-up to the first team.
Campos expressed his happiness with the new position with Paris Saint-Germain, stressing that he considers it the most ambitious and passionate club in football.
“We share the same vision, a vision I strongly believe in, and I look forward to starting my work on developing the exceptional potential of the club,” he said.
It is noteworthy that a number of press reports indicated Real Madrid’s interest in contracting Luis Campos to take over the duties of sports director.
Who is Luis Campos?
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Jose Mourinho and Luis Campos
Luis Campos began his football career by supervising the coaching of Uniao de Leiria, in the 1992-1993 season, in Portugal. Also, he trained several other clubs, such as Gil Vicente, with whom he managed to stop the unbeaten streak of “Special One”, Jose Mourinho, with Porto (27 games), in 2004.
In 2012, Jose Mourinho, who was coaching Real Madrid at the time, insisted on contracting Luis Campos in order to bring talents to the “royal” club, but he left in the summer of the following year (2013) after Mourinho was sacked.
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With his departure from Real, the French Monaco contracted with the Portuguese scout to improve the team’s situation and make a revolution, in an attempt to improve the club’s economic situation and return to competition, while Paris Saint-Germain is pumping huge money into the market and dominating the French League.
In the following season, 2014-2015, Monaco faced great financial difficulties and investments in it stopped, due to expenses and high salaries, which led the team to sell the contracts of the majority of the team’s stars, including: James Rodriguez, Falcao, Kondogbia, Marcia, Carrasco, Ayman Abd Al-Nur and Levin Kurzawa, to the French press at the time, titled this change as “the explicit surrender of the emirate’s club to the emperors of the capital.”
Campos..a talent hunter
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Bernardo Silva, Falcao, Kylian Mbappe and Lemar, while playing for Monaco
Luis Campos has begun searching for young talents and names that have yet to shine, in order to bring Monaco back to the fore and create a competitive team that can compete with Paris Saint-Germain in the first place.
The team signed several names, not everyone knew them, but the “genius” Campos knew them well, so he brought in Bernardo Silva, Benjamin Mendy, Fabinho, Lemar, Sidibe and Bakayoko. And a group of these names is the backbone of the historical generation of Monaco, which Reached the semi-finals of the Champions League In 2017, theHe also won the French League title.
Here, it must be remembered that Louis Campos is the discoverer of French star Kylian Mbappe, who promoted him from the youth team to the first team in 2015.
Historic Lille in the French League
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Luis Campos presenting Lille’s newcomer, Ricardo Chisna
When Gerard Lopez bought Lille, he pledged in front of the fans that the team would return to the right path, so he appointed Marc Anglaa as CEO, and signed Luis Campos in 2017 to be the sporting director and the first man in the club.
Upon receiving the job at the French club, the club signed with 17 players, and gave up 22 players. At the end of the 2018-2019 season, the club’s treasury entered the club’s treasury with an amount of 43 million euros from the sale and purchase of player contracts.
With the establishment of the main pillars of the club, Lille reached its first goal in the 2018 season by achieving an advanced position in the French League, qualifying it for the European Champions League, and returning to the spotlight again.
Campos also succeeded, through pillars and strategies, in Winning the French League title in 2021.
Why did Paris Saint-Germain insist on signing Luis Campos?
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A group of players discovered by Luis Campos during his career
Since its purchase by beIN Sports’ owner, Nasser Al-Khelaifi, the Paris club’s custodians have dominated the French league, as well as contending for the long-awaited Champions League title. However, what the team lacked was the technical stability and calmness in the dressing room, as well as the discovery of talents in the French League, which is considered one of the leagues that youngsters climb out of.
Since the arrival of Leonardo and his tenure as sporting director, the Paris club has lost calm. It was one of the main reasons for the departure of German coach Thomas Tuchel, who… He won the Champions League with Chelsea The year he was sacked as coach of Paris Saint-Germain.
Luis Campos is considered one of the most influential figures and the first talent scout. Through his experience with Monaco and the French Lille, Paris Saint-Germain may succeed in improving its European map, and reaching its long-awaited desired goal.
Will Luis Campos succeed with Paris Saint-Germain? Will he succeed in discovering new talents?