Thursday, 9 April 2015
Jose Mourinho admits he is trying to be more like Sir Alex Ferguson.
The Chelsea boss has revealed his admiration for the retired Manchester United manager.
Mourinho says that dates back to when his Porto side knocked United out of the Champions League in 2004.
Costinha’s last minute goal prompted his now infamous knee-slide at Old Trafford.
But Mourinho says Ferguson’s grace in defeat has stayed with him ever since.
“That was when I felt the two faces of such a big man,” he
said in an interview with the Telegraph. “The first face was the
competitor, the man that tried everything to win.
“And after that
I found the man with principles, with the respect for the opponent,
with the fair play – I found these two faces in that period, and that
was very important for me.
“In my culture, the Portuguese and the Latin culture, we don’t have that culture of the second face.
“We are in football to win and when we don’t there is not a second face most of the time.
“But when we beat United in the Champions League I got that beautiful face of a manager which I try to have myself. I try.”
Mourinho was considered by many United fans to be the ideal successor to Ferguson when the Scot retired in 2013.
But United’s board - under the recommendation of Ferguson - opted to appoint David Moyes and hand him a six-year contract.
He
lasted just nine months and was replaced by Louis van Gaal last summer,
while Mourinho now looks set to lead Chelsea to the title for the first
time since 2010
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