If you're not a top player on the pitch, it may seem easier to be a top coach. Wenger, Ferguson and so on. And Mourinho, who has never even played professionally, is the latest and toughest new candidate.
The Magic Bird, who aspired from a young age to be the world's greatest soccer coach, had to start as a basic apprentice without a prominent soccer family or any personal soccer talent.
Mourinho came to Barcelona with the old Robson in 1996, and started as an interpreter. Subsequently became an assistant coach in the Van Gaal era. With two famous managers by his side, Mourinho formed and mastered his own philosophy of life and coaching during his five-year-long dive at Barcelona. But before he shook the world, he was just an unassuming follower.
Mourinho: Since I came, I have everything
Since 2002 as Porto's manager, Mourinho used 2 consecutive years to get the League Cup and Champions League trophies, and the world was all eyes, and the next thing that happened was that his arrogance was all frenzy. Porto, although as a Portuguese Premier League giants, but only a small sect of continental football, the world's Mourinho and the Premier League's new Chelsea boss Abu hit it off, the two are trying to dominate the world of football ambitions are about to create the birth of the Premier League's fourth giants.
Since Mourinho's arrival at Chelsea, the era of the Premier League's two powerhouses has completely changed its protagonists. In a way, Wenger should hate the arrival of the Magic Bird more than Ferguson. Before it, Wenger hands of Arsenal at least can be and Manchester United to fight for the title of the top two choices, since the maniac to come, Arsenal from now on with the title and the second place to say goodbye completely. Only the old Ferguson can fight with the Magic Bird.
Two consecutive Premier League titles, consecutive undefeated at home, 1:0 iron blood defense have allowed Mourinho to put his unique mark on Chelsea, y imprinted in the hearts of fans around the world. Even if Ferguson led the Red Devils in the 06/07 season staged the return of the king, will Mourinho myth completely killed in the Premier League. The maniac and his Armani trench coat have become the most dazzling scenery in the world soccer world.
Until he came to Inter, Mourinho, in his second season of hibernation, led the Blue and Blacks to a breakthrough that had not been seen in seven years: a run to the last four of the Champions League. And in his latest record, the Magic Bird led Inter to a 3-1 rout of six-time champions Barcelona at the Meazza. Champions League final? It seems imminent handily.
Barcelona: Mourinho's lifelong enemy
While Mourinho led Chelsea into a bloody storm in Europe, another equally young manager led Barcelona into a beautiful display of artistic soccer. Like water and fire are incompatible, Barcelona and Chelsea met each other on the Champions League stage for 3 consecutive seasons. In those three seasons, only Barcelona won the Champions League once, but all the other clubs were overshadowed by the battle between Barcelona and Chelsea.
In Mourinho's life, Barcelona's five years of obscurity laid the foundation for his glittering career. But at that time in Barcelona, no one would pay attention to Robson and Van Gaal beside the small translator. How could the self-proclaimed "God's second" madman forget the contempt and disregard he suffered when he was young? And while he was growing into the world's top coach at Chelsea, Rijkaard was leading Barcelona to a place alongside him.
As a player, he was one of the world's top backs, leading one of the world's most prestigious teams. Rijkaard led Barcelona back to the top of La Liga after five years of decline, and in the following 05/06 season, Rijkaard's team took out Chelsea in the 1/8 finals of the UEFA Champions League before reaching the top of Europe. Even though Mourinho's arrogance caught the world's attention more than Rijkaard's tepid understatement, the maniac and his Chelsea were unable to realize their ultimate dream of a Champions League trophy, a setback that would ultimately lead to Mourinho's "dismissal".
When he arrived at Inter, Mourinho only repeated Mancini's story in the 08/09 season: still boringly dominant in Serie A, still crushed 2-0 at home by Manchester United in the last 16 of the Champions League. Rijkaard, with whom he fought for the world, has left for Fenerbahce, and Junior, the king of the second dream team, also came to the city of Milan, but sank into uncertainty in Milan, the arch-rival of the madman's team. But another youngster, even younger than Mourinho, became the new head of Barca.
The story is well known: The real king of Barcelona, Pep Guardiola, took over from Rijkaard without ever having coached a full-grown team, and even after a controversial run-in with Chelsea, swept Lyon, Bayern, Real Madrid and Manchester United to win six titles. In this season, the maniac in Serie A has become a public enemy, in the Champions League, but no inch. But the feud between Barcelona and the maniac will be staged again when Barcelona becomes the "public enemy of all Europe" in the six titles.
Returning home or inferiority complex in the midst of arrogance?
From the 2004/05 season to the 08/09 season of 5 years, Barcelona has experienced two managers, they were the achievement of the Barcelona dream team two and dream team three establishment. Although the existence of the two dream team time is extremely short, but in the existence of the period of the most pleasing to the eyes of the attacking soccer ho grabbed everyone's attention. And both managers happened to be top players in their playing days.
In comparison, Mourinho's story of his humble beginnings but leaping a thousand miles is undoubtedly more legendary and inspirational, but Rijkaard and Pep Guardiola's success as a "second generation of rich people" has always seemed so easy. They themselves have long been famous rivers and lakes, leading the team soon to be able to countless championships, under the leadership of the small Luo Messi always have this kind of individual ability to reach the peak of the world's players, and the European Championships have never begrudgingly to their favorite. The maniac can only rely on the team as a whole to fight against it, and after the real fame but with the Champions League further and further away. This natural difference in personal identity has not been erased by Madman's outstanding results, but rather by the fact that the two Barcelona managers' results are in no way inferior to Madman's in terms of results theory.
It's an extremely bizarre but hopeless scenario: a young man with nothing left to lose finally climbs the highest peak after years of hard work, only to look up and find a well-dressed young man already sipping tea and smiling comfortably. So you should be able to understand very well the anger Mourinho vented in that classic sliding knee at the Camp Nou, so you should be able to understand the maniac never want to admit that Barcelona 11 to 11 can beat his Chelsea.
The two Barcelona managers have always been a shadow over Europe and one of Mourinho's most "hated" rivals in the era when the maniac was in charge. In Rijkaard is about to be dismissed before, Barcelona once on the new managerial candidates and Mourinho close contact, the magic bird seems to be about to play "return home" the pleasure of life. But the godfather of Barcelona Cruyff for Mourinho's relentless flogging and abhorrence but cut off the dream of the maniacs, Barcelona even preferred to choose only 1 season of experience and has never coached an adult team of Pep Guardiola. This is a great irony for the maniac. Before going to Inter, Barcelona was the team most likely to capture the maniac's favor.
The failure of this choice is linked to Mourinho's previous tactic of doing whatever it takes to win whenever he plays Barca. The Magic Bird is a man who, when he is in a team, is only interested in his team's victory to the exclusion of all else. That's why, when facing Barcelona, the maniac always attacked Barcelona in a shocking manner, and he was voted as the most hated person by Barcelona fans, surpassing Figo. And that story continues today, to the rhetoric of attacking each other that came out of Barca's 1-3 defeat at the feet of Inter.
Real Madrid's team newspaper, Marca, was so happy to see their arch-rivals Barcelona pushed to the brink of extinction by their natural enemy Mourinho that they chose five of his quotes to illustrate Barcelona's "once-translator, now-European manager" vendetta, which will serve as the final note for this article: Mourinho can only be an enemy of Barcelona for the rest of his life. The first time I've ever seen a man like Mourinho, I've seen him in a different way.
1 "As a team coach, my experience is not comparable with Rijkaard, who has not yet won a trophy, while I already have a lot." In the first collision between Barcelona and Chelsea, Mourinho, who led Porto to win the Champions League, so mocked Rijkaard, who had just led Barcelona's start. But Rijkaard went on to help Barca win the double.
2 "Barcelona is a metropolis with a high level of theater and this guy (Messi) has learned his lesson." Barcelona beat Chelsea 2-1 at Stamford Bridge in the first leg of the round of 16 of the 2006 Champions League. Del Orno was red-carded for a foul on Messi in the match, and the furious maniac thought Messi, who was on the ground in agony from the knock, was acting up.
3 "Barcelona is a great club but has only won one Champions League trophy in its 200-year history. I, on the other hand, am the last 1 person to win the Champions League in the last few years." This is what Mourinho said when he led Chelsea to meet Barcelona in the 2005/06 season. But Barca went on to win the European Champions Cup that season, the second in the team's history.
4 "Defeat is tough for people who are not used to losing. It's a characteristic of those who always win, and I'm like that myself. For 1 team this is hard to admit." Mourinho said this after Barcelona's players were unconvinced by the result of the match following Barca's 1-3 loss to Inter.
5 "I saw the anger of the Barcelona players towards the referee, but their memory is short. They forgot the story of Chelsea last season." Mourinho said this about the Barcelona players' dissatisfaction with the referee after Barcelona's 1-3 loss to Inter.