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Mourinho: Football's Mastermind

José Mourinho is a Portuguese professional football manager who is currently the manager of Tottenham Hotspur. He is widely considered one of the greatest managers of all time. Throughout his career, Mourinho has managed several top clubs across Europe's top leagues, winning a vast array of domestic and European titles. These include Champions League titles with Porto and Inter Milan, as well as league titles in Portugal, England, Italy, and Spain - making him one of few managers to win titles in four countries. He has established a reputation for his tactical expertise, charismatic personality, and emphasis on results over style of play.

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Mourinho: Football's Mastermind

José Mourinho is a Portuguese professional football manager who is currently the manager of Tottenham Hotspur. He is widely considered one of the greatest managers of all time. Throughout his career, Mourinho has managed several top clubs across Europe's top leagues, winning a vast array of domestic and European titles. These include Champions League titles with Porto and Inter Milan, as well as league titles in Portugal, England, Italy, and Spain - making him one of few managers to win titles in four countries. He has established a reputation for his tactical expertise, charismatic personality, and emphasis on results over style of play.

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José Mário dos Santos Mourinho Félix, GOIH (Portuguese pronunciation: [ʒuˈzɛ moˈɾiɲu]; born 26

January 1963), is a Portuguese professional football manager and former player who is the current
manager of Premier League club Tottenham Hotspur. He is widely considered to be one of the
greatest managers of all time,[2][3] and he is one of the most decorated managers of all time.[4]
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
CP and Porto, before gaining success as an assistant at Barcelona under both Robson and his
successor, Louis van Gaal. After impressing with brief managerial stints at 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; the latter being Porto's first
European Cup title since 1987. That success earned him a move to England with Chelsea in 2004,
where he won two Premier League titles, a FA Cup, and two League Cups in his three seasons at
the club, before he departed in 2007 amid reports of disagreements with club owner Roman
Abramovich.[5]
In 2008, Mourinho joined Italian club Inter Milan, where he won the Serie A title in his first season. In
2010, he led Inter Milan to a European treble of Serie A, Coppa Italia, and the UEFA Champions
League; 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,[6] and later that year, earned him the first FIFA World
Coach of the Year award.[7] 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.[8][9] He also
won a Copa del Rey and a Supercopa de Espana.
Mourinho left Real Madrid in 2013 to rejoin Chelsea, where he won another league title and League
Cup, but was dismissed in 2015 after a poor run of results.[10] Under a year later, Mourinho was
appointed at rival club Manchester United, where he won the UEFA Europa League, League Cup
and FA Community Shield in his first season, before being dismissed in 2018.[11][12] In 2019, he signed
with Tottenham Hotspur.
He was named Portuguese Coach of the Century by the Portuguese Football Federation (FPF) in
2015,[13] and was the first coach to spend more than £1 billion on transfers.[14] Due to his tactical
knowledge, charismatic and controversial personality, and what his opponents regard as an
emphasis on getting results over playing beautiful football, he has drawn comparisons, by both
admirers and critics, with Argentine manager Helenio Herrera.[15][16]

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