Long-time Jose Mourinho collaborator Rui Faria has taken his first head coaching job with Qatar's Al Duhail, the club confirmed on Friday.
Faria, 43, left his assistant manager's job at Manchester United at the end of the 2017-18 season, ostensibly to pursue senior positions after almost two decades working as Mourinho's deputy.
And he will cut his teeth in the middle east after his arrival was revealed by the reigning Stars League champions.
"Al Duhail club management has contracted Portuguese coach Rui Faria to be the coach of the team in the upcoming period after many negotiations and great efforts made by the club management to obtain the coach despite the great European offers he had in the last period from a number of clubs that wanted to work with him, and also the great coaches who wanted to add him to their coaching staff," Al-Duhail confirmed in a statement published on the club's official website.