Friday, June 12, 2009
jose mourinho, the special one,
jose mario dos santos felix mourinho was born on 26 january 1963.he is a portugues football manager.he is the current manager of italian club f.c.internazional milano .the son of portuguese goalkeeper felix mourinho. started out as player he was unsatisfied with his career and switch to management after working as an assistant manager and a youth team coach in the early 1990s he became an interpreter for bobby robson. he learned much from veteran coach and work him at top portugese teams sporting clube de portugal, f.c. porto and at spanish giant fc barcelona. he began focusing on coaching and impressed with brief boss successful managerial periods at s.l benfica and uniao de leiria . he returned to porto in 2002 this time as head coach, and became a force to be reckoned with winning the portugese liga, cup of portugal and uefa cup in 2003. greater success followed in 2004 as guided the teams to the top of league from second time and he won highest honour in european football, the uefa champions league.mourinho moved to chelsea the following year and won two consecutive premier league titles in 2005 and 2006 among others domestic honours. he often courted controversy for his out spokenness but his victories at chelsea and porto established him as one of the top football managers; well regarded by both his peers and press. additionally was named the world best football manager by the international federation of football history and statiatics(IFFHS) for both 2004/2005 and 2005/2006 seasons after a fall out with the chelsea hierarchy,moved to serie A SIGNED a 3years contract with inter milan in mid 2008.within 3months he had won his first italian honour, italian super cup and completed his in italy by winning the national seria title.early life and career formative years and education. jose mourinho was born in 1963 to a large middle class family in setubal, portugal, the son of felix mouribnho and maria julia mourinh his father played football professionally for c.f. Os belenenses and vitoria setubal,earning one cap for portugal in the course of his career .his mother was a primary school teacher from an affluent background; her uncle, mourinho's great uncle funded the contructions of the vitoria setubal football stadium. however,the fall of antonio de oliveira salazar lead to the family lossing all but a property in nearby rural aires.mourinho was a popular and competitive child and his mother encourage him to be sucessful in his endeavours.football was a major part of his life and his father recalled being very impressed with his knowledge of the game.footballing commitments in porto and lisbon meant that felix was often seperated from his son.still,the young mourinho manager to spend time with him and as a teenager he would travel by any means necessary to attend weekend matches.by this time,his father had changed from playwer to coach and in turn de young mourinho became a student of the game,observing training season and scouting opposing teams.mourinho wanted to follow in the footsteps of his father by becoming a footballer and he join thebelenenses youth team.
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