I was nine or 10 years old and my father was sacked on Christmas Day. He was a manager, the results had not been good, he lost a game on December 22 or 23. On Christmas Day, the telephone rang and he…
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About Jose Mourinho
José Mário dos Santos Mourinho Félix is a Portuguese professional football manager and former player who is the head coach of La Liga club Real Madrid. Nicknamed "The Special One", he is one of the most decorated managers of all time. Mourinho has won league championships in four countries, is one of only seven managers to have won the European Cup with two clubs, and is the only manager to have won all three current UEFA club competitions. He was named Portuguese Coach of the Century by the Po…
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I'm not a defender of old or new football managers. I believe in good ones and bad ones, those that achieve success and those that don't.
But I think it's more normal for my team to have no success than it is to win two consecutive European cups.
Money does not guarantee success.
The negative side of football. The negative side of our society. People sometimes go to football and bring to it the negative aspects of our society.
Arsenal have won that advantage, nobody gave it to them. By playing fantastic football and by winning matches and by winning trophies, they won that respect that the opponent has for them.
Facing the press is not easy, but because you have to go, you have to try to take a lot of positive things for yourself from these face-to-face meetings.
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Money does not guarantee success.
Football is a game about feelings and intelligence.
Especially when you play at home, you need a good atmosphere behind you.
I was nine or 10 years old and my father was sacked on Christmas Day. He was a manager, the results had not been good, he lost a game on December 22 or 23. On Christmas Day, the telephone rang and he…
I am Jose Mourinho and I don't change. I arrive with all my qualities and my defects.
So if one day the result becomes 3-3, for me it doesn't change my mind, because it's football, it's normal. What is not normal is that we haven't been scoring enough goals playing such good football …
I think the best place to work in football is England.