Pedro Alves: Who is the “technocrat”, the new sporting director of Olympiacos?

A “nouvelle vag” representative of a football school whose development is a case study. With an impressive resume despite his young age. Mostly; With this sense that his ideas and contemporary portfolio have a constant push forward: to those who are to come.

Olympiacos today welcomes football’s “technocrats” into its organizational chart. The only thing that is certain is that, moreover, a large part of his decisions and strategy will bear his signature: it will be about Pedro Alves. The new sporting director of the red and white team.

Olympiacos has announced the signing of Pedro Alves

He was born in Lisbon, Portugal, on May 27, 1983. He began his career as a football player, passing through several small teams, reaching Cyprus and Aris Limassol, where he stayed for a year. But in reality, this experience was nothing more than his gateway to the most beautiful game.

His second career only began at the age of 32. Where he left the stadiums to join the scouting department in Braga. A process that soon led to the next big step. Sporting director at Estoril in the summer of 2018 with the Portuguese team, which is still in the second division. What did he follow? This is clearly the most important letter of recommendation for him.

In a five-year cycle, Estoril is “reborn.” She changed her position both in the racing part and the corporate part. She returned to the top flight, reaching the semi-finals of the cup (2020-21), but mainly presented a new modern image with footballers who opened up the market for her.

An example of this is Marcos Antonio, who now belongs to Lazio and is playing on loan to PAOK. Estoril had acquired the 18-year-old Brazilian for a small fee from U20 side Atletico Paranaense and sold him to Shakhtar Donetsk for 3,500,000 in February 2019. Marcos Antonio later moved to Lazio (7,500,000) and is now worth 8,000,000. euro.

Or even better? The great Mateus Nunez, whom Estoril discovered “for free” on the market at the age of 20. The same Matthews Nunez who Manchester City acquired in the summer from Wolverhampton instead of 62 million euros.

In his 40s, Elvis realized that this cycle had ended. How it’s time for the next step. Hence, Summer chose him to “go out” to the market by discussing a series of distinctive projects. This is how it happened at Olympiacos. The rest went to announcing a few words.

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“Olympiacos FC announces the start of its cooperation with Portuguese Pedro Alves, who will assume the position of sporting director.

He was born on May 25, 1983, and after finishing his playing career, he took charge of the scouting department at Braga, where he stayed for three years.

From 2018 until last July, he served as sporting director at Estoril.