Jose Mourinho, Portuguese coach nicknamed "The Special". Someone calls him a genius of coaching skills, and someone disparages his talents. But one thing is certain - this person does not leave anyone indifferent from the world of football. At the moment, Jose leads the English Manchester United.
Childhood
The future "special" coach was born on January 26, 1963, in the city of Setubal, Portugal. Jose's father, Felish, is the legendary goalkeeper of Vitoria and Belenensis, and has one national team match. Mother was a primary school teacher. From an early age, his father instilled in Jose a love of football.
As a teenager, Mourinho wanted to become a footballer, played in several youth teams. But he soon realized that the strategy of the game captures him more than the tactical subtleties of individual play on the field, and Jose decided to devote his life to coaching and focused on obtaining the necessary education for this.
Career
Since 1986, Mourinho has been the mentor of the children's youth teams of the local Vitoria Setubal, which lasted 4 years. In 1990, Jose was appointed assistant coach in the Estrela team and spent a season there. In 1992 he became an assistant and part-time translator for the head coach of the Portuguese football giants Sporting, Bobby Robson. At the end of the season, Bobby Robson was called to another Portuguese club, Porto, where Robson pulled Mourinho along with him.
The same situation happened in 1996 when Bobby Robson moved to coach Barcelona Catalan. Jose spent 4 whole seasons at Barcelona as an assistant coach and worked with Louis Van Gaal. In the fall of 2000, Mourinho was appointed head coach of Benfica Lisbon. Trained the Lisbonians for 3, 5 months, was fired due to the dissatisfaction of the team president.
But Mourinho did not lose heart and came to coach the Leiria team, modest by the standards of Portuguese football, with which he immediately took the fifth position in the league table. In 2001, Jose took over Porto, where he and his team won the UEFA Cup in 2002/2003. But the most important thing is that the “special” won the Champions League in 2003/2004 with Porto. In the final, Monaco was triumphantly smashed with a score of 3-0, by the way, one of the goals was scored by Dmitry Alenichev.
In the summer of 2004, the "special" became the mentor of London Chelsea. The debut season was successful - Jose won the English Championship. In the 2006/2007 season, Mourinho did not win any important trophies with Chelsea, only the league cup was taken. In the fall of 2007, Jose was fired from his position as Chelsea's helmsman.
After a year of "downtime", Mourinho became the mentor of Inter Milan. In the first season, Jose won the Italian championship with Inter. In the 2009/2010 season. Mourinho scored his famous hat-trick (Italian championship, Italian Cup, Champions League). After the end of this season, FIFA recognized the "special" coach of the year.
In 2010, the mentor was called to Real Madrid and he agreed. But in Madrid, everything went wrong with Jose, and in the summer of 2013, Jose left the team. The National Championship and the Spanish Cup were won in the "royal" club. In the summer of 2013, Jose returned to Roman Abramovich, and two years later the English Premier League was won again with Chelsea. The following year, in the middle of the calendar season, "Special" was fired from his post as mentor of Chelsea due to the team's poor performance.
In the winter of 2017, Mourinho took over at Manchester United, where he is currently a mentor. The team under his leadership started the season extremely badly, to this was added friction within the team - Jose is in conflict with several players, and therefore there are persistent rumors about his imminent resignation.
Personal life
In 1989, Jose married his childhood friend Matilda Faria. She was born in Angola, where her parents worked as volunteers, and her daughter then continued their work, doing charity work for the disadvantaged people of Africa.
In 1996, the couple had a daughter, who was named Matilda in honor of the mother, and four years later, Jose became the happy father of his second child, the son of Jose. Mourinho himself describes his family as the center of his universe, and says that the main thing in a man's life is to be a faithful husband and a good father.
