Jose Mourinho: tips to become the ‘special one’
The news is starting to fly in which the entire European continent was waiting for. In an €8million deal, Mourinho will start working for Real Madrid from Monday. Florentiono Perez has indeed confirmed the claims flying from Jose Mourinho’s mouth that Real Madrid will do whatever it takes to attain the services of apparently the best football coach that has stepped on the planet known as Earth.
But how do we determine that factor? Well basically that would be a combination of three facts: the manner and style in which he has achieved (class), the number of the achievements he has made (measure) and the variety of achievements he has made (range).
Now the class of the coach is judged by the difficulty of the titles that he has won. For instance, a manager can gain more points by winning a title which is more important to the football community. The Champions League or the World Cup trophy has a more exalted stature in comparison to the FA Cup or the La Liga. Furthermore, the class of a coach is further defined by winning alongside an underperforming team. For example, South Korea or Portugal winning a World Cup is a bigger achievement for a coach instead of teams like Brazil or France. Another matter of importance would be the funding available or used to acquire that victory. If he acquires the victory with a team like Tottenham Hotspurs, then that is going to give him extra points.
The measure or number of titles and trophies is another very important issue. If a manager has claimed more trophies of a kind than the other coach, it would certainly have an edge on the others. Even if the other manager did not have luck on his side, at the end of the day, it is the one who has the most goals or wins.
Let’s take a look at another angle. It can be explained with the help of Sir Alex Ferguson’s example. Though Fergusson may have won a lot of trophies but nearly all of them came from the same team, Manchester United. Other coaches like Mourinho or Giovanni Trapattoni have won a plethora of silverware while working with different teams. As a result, winning in different and difficult situations gives the managers some extra points due to ability to adapt to different countries, clubs and languages. In Mourinho’s case, he has dreamt of winning all league titles from every European country at the very least. This kind of passion is very rare to see and no one has ever done it before, leave alone the meticulous style and the neck-breaking speed at which Mourinho is collecting them.
Mourinho indeed is on a fast track to accomplish all that is out there to achieve. At just 47 years of age, he has already surpassed many of the legends of his time. The special one has won the top laurels from Portugal, England, Italy, and on the European platform. Countries that are left include Spain, Germany, and the International platform. After all that, Mourinho still might not be in the mood of retiring and take shots at discrete and unknown leagues.
A closer view will reveal that there has been only one coach that has come closer to travelling abroad and winning. His name is Ernst Happel who trained and made champions in countries like Netherlands, Belgium, Germany and Austria. He also captured the European Cup with Feyenoord and Hamburg. Then comes the record set by Alex Ferguson for becoming the League Champions for a record 14 times out of which 11 were won with Manchester United. In procession comes the Champions League from which Bob Paisley is the only coach to have won it three times. In the World Cup’s race to greatness, there aren’t many names apart from Marcello Lippi who has five league titles and Champions League under his belt excluding the World Cup.
Keeping all that in mind, it comes to you like an epiphany that Mourinho is still young and has captured league titles in most of Europe, producing one of the largest numbers in the world. In comparison to Fergie, who was in his fifties when his winning streaks started, if Mourinho plans his careers till his sixties, he can easily surpass the legend. As far as the Champions League is concerned, Mourinho has won two of them so only two more are trophies are required to break the record. In the end, when his mind wanders towards the World Cup, his home team of Portugal will definitely be in the hunt to win the World Cup.
One may think that Mourinho is the chosen one, the one who brings them all and binds them together; the one that will become a legend in time and finally into a myth for the coming generations. Well one thing is for sure; history has already started to carve his journey in stone.
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