José Mário dos Santos Mourinho Félix, GOIH ; born 26 January 1963, is a Portuguese professional football manager and former player. After an uneventful career as a midfielder in the Portuguese leagues, Mourinho moved into coaching, first as an interpreter for Sir Bobby Robson at Sporting CP and Porto. He then gained 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. 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
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José Mário dos Santos Mourinho Félix, GOIH ; born 26 January 1963, is a Portuguese professional football manager and former player. He is widely considered to be one of the greatest managers of all time. After an uneventful career as a midfielder in the Portuguese leagues, Mourinho moved into coaching, first as an interpreter for Sir Bobby Robson at Sporting CP and Porto. He then gained 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. 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, the Coppa Italia, and the UEFA Champions League, a first for an Italian club. In 2013, he won La Liga with Real Madrid, becoming the fifth coach to have won league titles in four countries. In 2015, he was the first coach to spend more than £1 billion on transfers. In 2018, he became manager of Premier League club Tottenham Hotspur. He has drawn comparisons, by both admirers and critics, with Argentine manager Helenio Herrera. Mourinho was born in 1963 to a large middle-class family in Setúbal, Portugal. His father played football professionally for Os Belenenses and Vitória de Setú Bal, earning one cap for Portugal in the course of his career.
His mother was a primary school teacher from an affluent background; her uncle funded the construction of the Vitórian de Setubal football stadium. Mourinho dropped out of business school on his first day, deciding he would rather focus on sport, and chose to attend the Instituto Superior de Educação Física, Technical University of Lisbon, to study sports science. He was named Portuguese Coach of the Century by the Portuguese Football Federation in 2015, and was first coach of the century in Portugal. In the early 1990s, Mourinho became a youth team coach at Vitária de setúbal and became an assistant manager at Estrela da Amadora. In 1992, an opportunity arose to work as a translator for a top foreign coach: Bobby Cintra, who had been appointed as manager of Sporting CP. His first job was as an English-speaking local coach to work alongside Robson, who was president of Sintra. He won the Primeira Liga twice, a Taça de Portugal, the UEFA Cup, and the UEFA Champions League, Porto’s first European Cup title since 1987. He also won a Copa del Rey and a Supercopa de España. In 2004, he moved to England with Chelsea and 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. In May 2016, Mourinho was hired by Manchester United.
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