The 46-year-old has stated that he is very happy by the gesture made by the Portuguese trainer in the Madrid derby last week.
Futre is an Atletico Madrid legend and he was full of praise for the Real Madrid tactician as Mourinho showed some great sports man spirit to silence the crowd, who were jeering the Atletico Madrid manager, Diego Simeone.
Real Madrid bettered their cross city rivals, Atletico Madrid 2-0 in the capital derby on the weekend.
The match was highly anticipated and a lot of hype had surrounded the clash, as Atletico went in to the game ahead on points from the Spanish champions. This sort of scenario had not occurred before in this millennium and hence a lot of excitement was griping
the fixture.
"Everyone knows I was desperate to see Atleti beat Real on Saturday, but it wasn't to be," Futre is quoted as saying by Marca.
http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Cristiano-Ronaldo-c9629 broke the deadlock with a brilliant free-kick and as Atletico Madrid looked to come back in to the game, German international Mesut Ozil doubled Real’s lead.
During the match the Atletico Madrid trainer, http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Diego-c11058 Simeone had to face great jeers and harsh words from the Rojiblancos support, and Mourinho was quick to the rescue of his counter-part.
Mourinho made some gestures towards the Atletico fans by which he meant to silence their criticism towards their own coach.
"A few days after the game, no longer seething about the defeat and joking apart, I feel even more proud to be Mourinho's friend. “
The Real Madrid trainer was of the say that Simeone had done great things for Los Rojiblancos and the criticism coming his way was totally out of order.
"No one in Spanish football has ever made such a gesture or had the courage to call for thousands of people to stop because they are showing a lack of respect to the manager of the opposing team."
The result of the match saw Real climb to within five points of their city rivals, but still find themselves trailing http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Barcelona-c38604 by a mammoth 11 points on the charts.
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