Jose Mourinho – The king of http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Defence-c38904 (Part 1)
The current http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Real-c30728 Madrid coach, Jose Mourinho has always been a fan of defensive strategy. After joining his first “big” club – Porto, Jose Mourinho always coached a club which had extraordinary defenders.
The Portuguese tactician is currently known as one of the best coaches of this era. Even though he has coached in a time where coaches like Louis Van Gaal, Carlo Ancelloti, http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Marcelo-c23554 Lippi, Frank Rijkard and Sir Alex Ferguson showed their worth to the world,
Jose Mourinho still managed to stand out amongst all these names.
Jose Mourinho’s career took a big step forward when he joined the Portuguese side Porto. The Portuguese coach introduced counter attacking strategy while coaching Porto. Mourinho showed how strong defenders and even unattractive football can help a team
win trophies.
Even though he was criticised for his over defensive strategy, he still helped Porto win their domestic league. Later, he also helped Porto win the domestic Cup, Taca de http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Portugal-c2984. He also helped the Portuguese Champions qualify for the UEFA Champions League.
That season Porto won the Europa League as well.
Porto were the underdogs in the European competition and Jose Mourinho took them to the final round of the competition and won the title to write his name in the history books. Porto first faced Manchester United in the knock out stages and later won against
teams like Lyon, and Deportivo La Coruna, to qualify for the final of the UEFA Champions League.
The final was played between Monaco and Porto. Jose Mourinho’s men were able to finish the game off 3-0 with goals scored by http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Deco-c10735 and Alenichev.
During that era, the English Premier League saw a new rising force – Chelsea. With the help of their “unusually” rich owner, Roman Abramovic, Chelsea had the ability to sign almost all the players in the world.
With Jose Mourinho being a success in Porto, Abramovic wasted no time to import him into his club. Jose Mourinho decided to join the Premier League side Chelsea. While coaching Chelsea, he really had to go through a tough competition in the form Sir http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Alex-c4752
Ferguson who was in charge of the Premier League winning side Manchester United.
Jose Mourinho bought new players and strengthened his squad as much as he could. He coached http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Chelsea-c38786 for two years and was able to win the Premier League in both the years. Even with a competitor like Sir Alex Ferguson, Mourinho proved his worth and helped
Chelsea win the Premier League twice in a row.
Jose Mourinho also helped the blues win an FA Community Shield along with the Carling Cup and the FA Cup. It was for the first time that Chelsea won a double – all thanks to Jose Mourinho.
The Portuguese tactician tried his level best to win the UEFA Champions League while being the head of the blues. However, his two year reign came to an unexpected end. The club came on mutual terms with Mourinho and they decided that he is going to leave
for the Italian side http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Inter-c39567 Milan in the very next season.
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