José Mourinho
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José Mário dos Santos Mourinho Félix (born January 26, 1963 in Setúbal, Portugal), is a football manager. He is the former coach of Chelsea Football Club, based in South West London and the current coach of w:Internazionale.
[edit] Family Life
- "My family love living in London. It is a fantastic city and a city such as this deserves to host the Olympic Games."
- "My wife is in Portugal with the dog. The dog is with my wife so the city of London is safe, the big threat is away."
[edit] Post-match comments
- "I told Mr Ferguson United didn't deserve to leave with nothing". [After Chelsea beat Manchester United 1-0 in Mourinho's first game as manager.]
- "During the afternoon it rained only in this stadium - our kitman saw it. There must be a micro-climate here." [Before the Blackburn v Chelsea game - 2004/2005]
- "As we say in Portugal, they brought the bus and they left the bus in front of the goal." - after a 0-0 draw at Stamford Bridge with Tottenham Hotspur
- "The linesman scored the goal. No-one knows if that shot went over the line and you must be 100%" [after losing to a contentious Liverpool goal in the Champions League semi-final 2005]
- "99,99% of the Liverpool fans think they are in the final. They are not." [on the Liverpool fans celebration like they were already through to the final after drawing the first leg in the Champions League semi-final 2005]
- "They are in the final and from my heart I hope they win it. The night belongs to them and I don't want to criticise them" [on Liverpool in Europe]
- "I felt the power of Anfield, it was magnificent"
- "That was not a football score, it was a hockey score...in training I often play matches of three against three and when the score reaches 5-4 I send the players back to the dressing room, because they are not defending properly" [on the Tottenham vs Arsenal match, which ended 5-4 to Arsenal]
- "You have to wonder why they did that penalty. Because they have so many penalties in the season, that's why. They have to do something special and different." - on Arsenal's penalty mix-up in October 2005
- "The best team lost. After they scored only one team played, the other one just defended for the whole game." [on losing to Liverpool in Europe]
- "It was a goal that came from the moon - from the Anfield stands" [defeat against Liverpool in the Champions League]
- "We're not the perfect team and I'm not saying we are the best team in the world, but I think we deserve a little bit more respect." [after Chelsea defeated European champions Liverpool 4-1 at Anfield. Mourinho's team had recently been criticised for playing "boring" football]
- "They believed it was possible. This is the only country in the world where that would happen." [praising Colchester's fans in the FA Cup 2006] [1]
- "How do you say cheating in Catalan?" [after Chelsea were beaten 2-1 by Barcelona in a match where Mourinho accused Lionel Messi of getting Asier del Horno sent off.] [2]
- "Pavel Nedvěd, Paul Scholes, Luís Figo have all retired from international football. With the Czechs, England and Portugal it is ok, but France? They don't have liberty. It is unbelievable. Makélélé is not a footballer, he is a slave. He has no human rights, no right to choice or liberty, so he is a slave. But the rules are there, so what can we do?" - criticizing France coach Raymond Domenech for calling up Claude Makélélé for Euro 2008 qualifiers, after Makélélé announced his retirement from international football after the 2006 FIFA World Cup. However, rules by FIFA state that players who refuse a selection on their national team could be suspended from their professional clubs. The use of "slave" in Mourinho's press release was criticized by Domenech and France captain Patrick Vieira [3]
- "I can tell you now, to stop you (journalists) from asking, that as long as he is not scoring, Shevchenko will play." - on Andriy Shevchenko's goal drought.
- "Don't start celebrating yet, because this tie is not over." - said to the Panathinaikos coach, Uruguayan Sergio Markarian, after a 1-0 home loss in the 2002-2003 UEFA Cup, which FC Porto went on to win 2-0 after extra time.
- "There are still other things which concern me, not just concern me, but leave me in a very emotional situation, If my goalkeeper dies in that dressing room or in that process it is something English football has to think about, It looks like what I did against Liverpool that 'shut up' was a nightmare, that a player from Manchester City shows half his ass for two seconds was also a big nightmare. I think this is a real nightmare, a real nightmare. I would like somebody to tell me why my goalkeeper was put in this situation for 30 minutes." [4] [Reflecting on the events which lead to the aftermath of the Petr Cech injury on 14/10/2006 at Reading and how the English press reflect on situations that arise at Football matches.]
- "Pressure? Pressure of what? Pressure is millions of people in the world having no money to buy food for their children. That is pressure. Not in football" [On the pressure of winning a game after losing twice in a row]. Various other public figures paraphrased this quote.
- If someone touch my team, I am the first that defence it [18 Semptember 2008]
