“I was late, as a player, many times. If you have bad traffic, what are you doing to do? Make a miracle? Sometimes it happens.”

Portuguese football manager and former player

Nuno Herlander Simões Espírito Santo, known as Nuno Espírito Santo or simply Nuno, is a Portuguese football manager and former player. He was most recently head coach of West Ham United in the EFL Championship. As a player and later as a manager, he has been part of professional football at the top level. His public profile is tied mainly to coaching, with his name appearing across modern club football rather than to a body of written work or a long public career outside the sport.