Here is all you need to know about former Chelsea doctor Eva Carneiro, know which football club she owns and her net worth
Following a rebuke from Mourinho for responding to Eden Hazard’s injury during a 2-2 tie with Swansea on the first day of the 2015–16 Premier League season, Chelsea’s physiotherapist departed the sport.
Where is ex-Chelsea physio Dr Eva Carneiro now, which football club does she own and net worth
In injury time, Carneiro and chief physio Jon Fearn hurried onto the pitch to respond to Hazard when he went down hurt. Naturally, Hazard would have to leave the pitch and wait for the referee to give him permission to return. Mourinho made sure to voice his anger about the game after it was over. In quotes relayed by the Daily Telegraph:
I wasn’t happy with my medical staff because even if you are a medical doctor or secretary on the bench, you have to understand the game.
He said further that one must go to attend the player and assist him only when he has a “serious problem,” and according to Mouriho, Hazard was not that serious. He just “had a knock and was very tired.”
My medical department left me with eight fit outfield players in a counter attack after a set piece and we were worried we didn’t have enough players left.”
After Mourinho openly chastised Carneiro and physiotherapist Jon Fearn for onto the pitch to treat Eden Hazard during a Swansea match in 2015, things took a bad turn. A month later, Mourinho was cleared of all charges, but Carneiro left Chelsea and sued the team, finally accepting a reputed £5 million compensation for her dismissal.
Who is Eva Carneiro?
Eva Carneiro is a sports medicine specialist from Gibraltar, born on September 30, 1973 in Gibraltar. The 50-year-old joined Chelsea’s first team in 2009 and is most renowned for her work there.
A look at Eva Carneiro’s career
Lewes FC, which plays in the Isthmian League Premier Division, and Lewes FC Women, which plays in the Women’s Championship, are owned by Eva.
After earning her MSc in Sport and Exercise from Queen Mary University of London, the Gibraltar-born sports medicine specialist joined the football world in the late 2000s.
After that, she worked for West Ham, the England women’s football team, and the British Olympic team before coming back to Chelsea in 2009. Two years later, Carneiro was given the opportunity to work with the first team by manager Andre Villas-Boas. She went on to play under Jose Mourinho, Roberto Di Matteo, and Rafael Benitez however, things didn’t go well and she left the club. She acknowledged in a 2017 interview with L’Equipe that it took her about a year to be able to watch a football game once more:
The final of the 2016 Champions League was the only game that I could sit down in front of last year.”
In addition to working as a specialist at the Harley Street private clinic The Sports Medical Group in London, she was a consultant at a hospital in Qatar before the World Cup last winter.
Who is Eva Carneiro married to?
Carneiro is married to Jason De Carteret in London’s St. Patrick’s Church in Soho Square on November 11, 2015 and she has a net worth of $5 million.