Jose Mourinho is a well known football coach and if you don’t know already, he ηασ left the football team, Manchester United.
The football coach left the English team, after being in charge for two and a half years and everybody is waiting to see what will his next moves be.
These are some facts you should know about him:
- His full name is José Mário dos Santos Mourinho Félix.
- Jose Mourinho was born on the 26th of January 1963.
- He was born in born Setúbal (a suburb of the Lisbon Metropolitan Area), Portugal.
- His father played football professionally for Os Belenenses and Vitória de Setúbal.
- He admired his dad, so he wanted to follow in footsteps and joined the Belenenses youth team.
- Graduating to the senior level, he played at Rio Ave (where his father was coach), Belenenses, and Sesimbra.
- He lacked the requisite pace and power to become a professional and chose to focus on becoming a football coach instead.
- He attended the Instituto Superior de Educação Física (ISEF), Technical University of Lisbon, to study sports science.
- He became youth team coach at Vitória de Setúbal in the early 1990s.
- He worked as a translator for a top foreign coach: Bobby Robson in 1992. Bobby had been appointed as the new manager of Lisbon club Sporting CP.
- After Sporting CP, they both moved on to Porto and then, in 1996 they went together to Barcelona.
- The chance to become a top-tier manager arrived in September 2000 when Mourinho moved up from his role as assistant manager at Benfica to replace manager Jupp Heynckes after the fourth week of the Primeira Liga.
- He has coached major teams such as Porto,Chelsea,Inter Milan,Real Madrid,Chelsea,Manchester United.
- He has won 25 major honours, making him one of the most successful managers of all time.
- He holds the distinction of being the first coach to have spent more than £1 billion on transfers.
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