Can you manage to win the Uefa Champions League without coaching a big club ?
Or can you be so smart that all reporters find it so difficult to prove you're wrong,well one man..1 man only can do that and he is…….JOSE MOURINHO
Jose Mourinho started his professional career as a translator for Barcelona manager at that time Sir Bobby Robson who has recently died of cancer then he moved back to his country Portugal to start his coaching career as FC Porto's manager,he managed to beat Manchester United in the quarter finals after Costinha nailed a goal in the 92 minute of the game to end the 2nd leg 1-1 after winning in Dragao stadium 2-1 to qualify after then to the final and beat AS Monaco 3-0 to be the youngest manager to win the UCL until Pepe Guardiola won it with Barcelona last year then he moved to England to replace the sacked Claudio Ranieri in coaching Chelsea and when he was asked why did he leave Porto after all the glory he achieved with the team he simply said "if I stayed there I would live a calm peace life and the fans will put me in the 2nd place after god and they will love me and thank me even if don’t win anything at all……but I want a new challenge and please don’t call me arrogant but I am a European champion and I think I am a special one "
Then in his first season 04/05 with Chelsea he brought back the Premier league Title to the club who never won it for 50 years he managed to reach the UCL knockout rounds but eventually he was eliminated by Liverpool.
At the beginning of season 07/08 after a series of loses and draws ending by UCL draw against Rosenburg in Stamford bridge,Jose mourinho was fired by the club owner the Russian billionaire Roman abramovic then Mourinho received offers from the English FA to coach England and lead them to World Cup 2010 he thought about it a little but eventually he refused …(last week Joan Laporta Barcelona president revealed that he wanted to sign Mourinho but there was a rule in his contract "to treat Spanish reporters and Spanish media with full respect " well that made Mourinho refuse so Guardiola came and won the Treble !!
After a while Intermilan President Massimo Moratti offered Jose a three-year contract making him the highest paid coach in Serie A …at the beginning Mourinho demanded to sign 3 players
1-Lampard from Chelsea
2-Mancini from AS Roma
3-Quaresma from Porto
Well Inter board succesfuly managed to sign 2 out of 3 missing lampard and replacing him with Sulley Muntari from Portsmouth .
Jose Mourinho at the beginning found it difficult to pick the suitable formation for Intermilan players but finally he choose 4-3-3 by putting Ibrahimovic ,Mancini and Quaresma as a deadly trio upfront but Quaresma lost his "Porto" Form while Mancini looked like he never played football before so Mourinho had to use Inter old tactics by playing 4-1-2-1-2,many people gave Mourinho credit for bringing Adriano and Maicon back to their form by watching Maicon the rightback scores a lot of goals while Adriano made a thriller tag with Ibra
Mourinho wasn’t threatened to lose the Serie A title in his first season cause AC Milan wasn’t in their form (as usual…. the team needs a new generation and Galliani happy by the unspent money in his pocket ) while Juventus were still building a team capable of winning throphies moving to AS Roma who were having financial problems Internazionale biggest test was in the Champions league season 08/09 at the knock-out rounds facing European champions Manchester United, 2 weeks before the 1st leg Sir Alex Hinted that he may retire in the next following years.Reports said that Jose Mourinho could be his replacement making Jose stating "I would consider going to Manchester United but United have to consider if they want me to succeed Sir Alex Ferguson. If they do, then of course" he lost 2-0 on aggregate drawing in Milano and losing in Manchester…before the match in Old Trafford,Mourino stated to United fans " I will beat you then I will coach you" ..well after all he lost the match 2-0 by 2 header goals from Vidic and Ronaldo
Itailian media didn’t consider Mourinho successful in his first season with Intermilan claiming that he won nothing more than Serie A who former successor Roberto Mancini did as Mourinho was supposed to win the UCL and that’s what he came to do !!
This season 2009/2010 Intermilan was involved in to be said one of the biggest deals in Football history by trading strikers with Inter signing Samuel Eto and letting Zlatan Ibrahimovic go the other way also by signing Lucio from Bayern Munich moving to Wesly sneijder from Real Madrid and Genoa's Diego Millito and Thiago Motta which made Mourinho very satisfied saying that he can now compete for the Champions league. ……
Well we will see what "The Special one" can do this season after Juventus improved their squad and after being dropped together with current European champions Barcelona in one group
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