Please don't call me arrogant, but I'm European champion and I think I'm a special one….
When I go to the press conference before the game, in my mind the game has already started..
I am Jose Mourinho and I don't change. I arrive with all my qualities and my defects………
.If I am hated at Barcelona, it is their problem but not mine. Fear is not a word in my football dictionary………..
I am prepared. The more pressure there is, the stronger I am. In Portugal, we say the bigger the ship, the stronger the storm. Fortunately for me, I have always been in big ships. FC Porto was a very big ship in Portugal, Chelsea was also a big ship in England and Inter was a great ship in Italy. Now I'm at Real Madrid, which is considered the biggest ship on the planet. …jose mourinho
Mourinho is
widely regarded by several players and coaches to be one of the best managers
of his generation and one of the greatest ever managers. Mourinho began his
involvement in professional football as a player in the Portuguese Second
Division. He studied sports science in Technical University of Lisbon and
attended coaching courses in Britain. In Lisbon, he worked as a physical
education teacher and had spells working as a youth team coach, a scout, and an
assistant manager. In the early 1990s, he became an interpreter for Sir Bobby
Robson at Sporting CP and Porto in Portugal, and Barcelona in Spain. He remained
at the Catalonian club working with Robson's successor Louis van Gaal.
He was born 26 January 1963 in Setúbal, Portugal. His father
was a Portuguese goalkeeper José Félix Mourinho. Mourinho began his sporting
career as a footballer, but never made it as a top player. According to his
father, Felix, Mourinho’s affinity,
attitude and acute attention to detail for football management began very
early.
“When he was 13 or 14 I became a manager and had to travel.
José would always find a way to turn up wherever I was. By coach, or even fish
transport truck, he would always be with me somehow for the weekend matches. He
started to manage the ball boys. He would position himself behind our bench.
I’d give him instructions which he would pass on to the players, running to the
other side of the pitch to tell them. So he began very early to deal with
tactics and systems of play…
When he was 15 or 16 he told me he wanted to be a manager. He
started to watch the teams we were going to play and prepare reports, and that
helped me a lot.
Mourinho joined the youth ranks of Belenenses, and then
played for his father at Rio Ave as a defender. Mourinho also played for second
division side, Sesimbra, and studied Physical Education and Sports Science at
the Instituto Superior de Educação Física (The Technical University of Lisbon).
He spent five years in University and earned a diploma. In a May 2004 interview
with the The Times of London, Mourinho admitted his playing limitations:
“By 23, he had realised his limits as a player. ‘I’m an
intelligent person. I knew I was not going to go any higher. The second
division was my level.
He studied sports science at the Technical university of
Lisbon and spent five years teaching in schools. After spells working as an
assistant manager and a youth team coach. In 1992, he became an interpreter for
Sir Bobby Robson when he got a job at Sporting Club Portugal. He also follower
Bobby Robson to FC Porto in Dec 1993. The two developed a good working
relationship with Jose Mourinho learning from Bobby Robson and Robson
increasingly trusting the ideas of the young Mourinho. When Robson went to
Barcelona in 1996, Mourinho followed – learning Catalan and becoming an
important part of the set up. When Robson left, Mourinho stayed on, working the
Dutchman, Louis van Gaal in a successful two years for Barcelona.
Mourinho stayed three years at Barcelona where his attention
to detail and personal touch were noted by players such as Laurent Blanc and
Josep “Pep” Guardiola. He turned down Mr. Robson’s offer to be his second in
command at Newcastle United. He returned to Portugal in 2000 for his first head
coaching job with Benfica. His spell with the iconic Portuguese club was rather
short. He departed for Uniao de Leiria in January 2001. A year later, he
arrived at the club that would launch him onto the world stage: FC Porto.
He won everything at his disposal in two years at Porto: The
Portuguese Cup and SuperCup, two Portuguese League titles, the UEFA Cup in 2003
and the UEFA Champions League in 2004.
Then after, Chelsea FC owner, Roman Abramovich, courted the
new European coaching sensation away from Porto to Stamford Bridge in 2004. At
Chelsea, Mourinho continued his winning ways. He won the Premiership twice on
the trot in his first two seasons. He could not replicate the European success
of Porto. Mourinho arrived on the Italian peninsula to manage Inter Milan in
2008, and learned Italian during his break from football. He won the Serie A
Scudetto easily on his first attempt and the Italian SuperCup. In 2010, he led
Inter to a unique treble, winning Serie A, the Italian cup and the UEFA
champions league. Like in England he had a tempestuous relationship with
referees and other managers.
In 2010, Mourinho moved to Real Madrid, who were desperate to
end their under-achievement relative to Barcelona. After a difficult first
season, he won the Spanish La Liga in 2011-12 season. After leaving Madrid in
June 2013, Mourinho returned to England to manage Chelsea for a second spell.
Because of his tactical knowledge, charismatic (but also very
controversial) personality and what his opponents regard as emphasis on getting
results over playing beautiful football, he is often seen, by both admirers and
critics, as the successor of Argentine manager Helenio Herrera. Bayern Munich
manager Pep Guardiola has described Mourinho as "probably the best coach
in the world". Chelsea midfielder Frank Lampard has stated that Mourinho
is the best manager he has ever worked for. He has sometimes been accused for
playing defensive, dull football to grind out results.
Mourinho has been criticised for negative tactics by a few
coaches and players, including Johan Cruyff, and Morten Olsen. Cruyff stated,
"Jose Mourinho is a negative coach. He only cares about the result and
doesn't care much for good football." After one game, Cruyff stated:
"Mourinho is not a football coach. To play at home with seven defenders,
you must be very afraid." Olsen stated, "I don't like his persona or
the way he plays football negatively."
And after all, both negative and positive line of respect
makes him really special. At the beginning of his career he has to deal with
much of struggle on his life, with his family and with his dream. But once he
found the way ,He has got success in every club he managed and still on the
road to become greatest manager of the world. In modern era of football, he is
renowned for his acerbic and self-confident style. He is often referred to as
“The Special One” a nickname to describe his unique character and strong track
record.
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