- Born
- Birth nameJosé Mário dos Santos Mourinho Félix
- Nicknames
- Zé Mário
- The Special One
- Height5′ 8½″ (1.74 m)
- "José Mourinho was born in Setúbal, Portugal on 26th January 1963. Renowned for his tactical prowess, he has won 25 senior trophies during his time in charge of FC Porto, Inter Milan, Chelsea (over two spells), Real Madrid and Manchester United.
José initially wanted to be a professional football player, however he later decided that he wanted to focus on football coaching instead. He studied sports science at the Technical University of Lisbon.
In the early 1990s, he became an interpreter working under Sir Bobby Robson at Sporting Lisbon, FC Porto and Barcelona. During their time together, José's coaching responsibilities increasingly grew and he remained at the Catalonian club under Robson's successor, Louis van Gaal.
José Mourinho eventually became a head coach at Benfica and União de Leiria. But It was at FC Porto where he caught global attention, winning the UEFA Champions League in 2004 by defeating Monaco 3-0 in the final. José then joined Chelsea and during the 2004/05 Season guided Chelsea to their first league title in 50 years, winning with a record 95 points at the time.
In 2008, Mourinho moved to Serie A club, Internazionale. In 2009/10, he helped guide Inter Milan to become the first Italian club to win the treble of Serie A, Coppa Italia and the UEFA Champions League.
He won the first ever FIFA 'World Coach of the Year' award in 2010 and joined Real Madrid, winning the 'Copa del Rey' in his first season. The following year he won 'La Liga'.
After leaving Real Madrid in June 2013, Mourinho returned to England to manage Chelsea for a second spell, during which they won another Premier League title. On 27th May 2016, José joined Manchester United where he guided them to winning the Europa League as well as the League Cup.
During his career, José has won all domestic titles in a record four different countries (Portugal, England, Italy and Spain), is one of only three managers to have won the UEFA Champions League with two different clubs - FC Porto in 2004 and Inter Milan in 2010 - and has won the UEFA Cup/Europa League twice, with FC Porto and Manchester United. He is also a three-time Premier League Champion (2005, 2006, 2015).
José Mourinho is one of the world's most accomplished managers and joined Tottenham Hotspur as Head Coach on 20th November, 2019."- IMDb Mini Biography By: Amazon Studios - José Mourinho is a Portuguese professional football manager and former player who was the manager of F.C. Porto, Chelsea F.C., Inter Milan, Real Madrid, Manchester United F.C., Tottenham Hotspur F.C. and A.S. Roma. He is widely considered to be one of the greatest managers of all time, and he is one of the most decorated managers of all time.
Following an uneventful career as a midfielder across Portugal's football pyramid, Mourinho first entered the sphere of management as an interpreter for Sir Bobby Robson at Sporting C.P. and F.C. Porto, before gaining success as an assistant at FC Barcelona under both Robson and his successor, Louis van Gaal. After impressing with brief managerial stints at S.L. Benfica and União de Leiria, Mourinho returned to Porto as manager in 2002, where he won the Primeira Liga twice, a Taça de Portugal, the UEFA Cup, and the UEFA Champions League (1992); the latter being Porto's first European Cup title since 1987. That success earned him a move to England with Chelsea F.C. in 2004, where he won two Premier League titles, a FA Cup, and two League Cups in his three seasons at the club.
In 2008, Mourinho joined Italian club Inter Milan, where he won the Serie A title in his first season. In 2010, he led Inter to a European treble of Serie A, Coppa Italia, and the UEFA Champions League (1992); the first time an Italian club has achieved this. This made him one of five coaches to have won the European Cup with two different clubs, and later that year, earned him the first FIFA World Coach of the Year award. Mourinho then signed with Real Madrid, where he won La Liga with a record points tally, becoming the fifth coach to have won league titles in four countries. He also won a Copa del Rey and a Supercopa de Espana.
Mourinho left Real Madrid in 2013 to rejoin Chelsea F.C., where he won another league title and League Cup. Three years later, Mourinho was appointed at rival club Manchester United F.C., where he won the UEFA Europa League, League Cup and FA Community Shield in his first season, before being dismissed in 2018.
In 2019, he signed with Tottenham Hotspur F.C., and in 2021 he was dismissed, leaving the club for the first time since 2002 without winning a single trophy.
He was soon hired by A.S. Roma, with whom in the first season he won the UEFA Conference League for the first time. Having won this tournament, he became the first coach in history to win European Cups with four different clubs.- IMDb Mini Biography By: Tango Papa
- His Armani overcoat
- A self confessed fan of Sir Alex Ferguson
- Worked as Sir Bobby Robson's translator at Barcalona in the early 1990s
- Led Chelsea to win the Premiership and Carling Cup in 2005
- Son of goalkeeper Félix Mourinho and Maria Júlia.
- Friends with sir Alex Ferguson.
- [presenting himself as Chelsea's new manager] We have top players and - I apologize if I sound arrogant, a top manager.
- [after a couple of months as Chelsea's manager] It's hard to keep up with my ego, but the players just have to live with it.
- [as Porto's manager] Football is a game about feelings and intelligence. Everybody can be smart. The trick is not believing the other's stupid.
- Ferguson [Alex Ferguson] is right. Money does not guarantee success. I showed that last season when my Porto team beat Manchester United.
- [on Tottenham - September 2004] As we say in Portugal, they brought the bus and they left the bus in front of the goal. I would have been frustrated if I had been a supporter who paid £50 to watch this game because Spurs came to defend. There was only one team looking to win, they only came not to concede - it's not fair for the football we played.
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