Hugo Carlos Rodrigues Ganchinho Pereira (born 6 November 1978), is a Portuguese football coach and former player.
Hugo Pereira was a youth player at Benfica but never managed to take the step up to professional football.
[1] Pereira has a master's degree in education and a post-graduation in high performance football coaching from the University of Lisbon.
[5] In January 2017, Pereira was chosen as one of two to spend a week with José Mourinho at Manchester United.
[6][7] This came to be through the High Performance Football Coaching course at the University of Lisbon where Mourinho would choose the two that impressed the most.