After reading the works of other writers concerning the Special One or Jose Mourinho, I have decided that Jose Mourinho deserves a special mention and an objective article. He was stronger in the area of management and he had the advantage of being from a football family on his fathers’ side of the family. He was weak as a player of the actual game of football [soccer].

 

Jose Mourinho’s father was Felix Mourinho who was a goalkeeper for the teams Belenenses and Vitoria de Setubal. His godfather was the Chairman of Vitoria de Setubal. Jose Mourinho after some struggle with his mother and with his school was able to enroll in ISEF [Instituto Superior de Educac~ao Fisico] which became Faculdade de Motricidade Humana of the Technical University of Lisboa. He completed his five years at ISEF and received his degree in Physical Education with the specialty of Sports Methodology. He later on went to study in Scotland where he received his degree in as a UEFA Coach.

 

His success came as coach with Benfica, UD Leiria, F.C. Porto, and Chelsea. He proved himself within the Portuguese League and was able to take Benfica, UD Leiria, and F.C Porto to heights within the Portuguese League before being offered the job at Chelsea. Even before being offered the job at Chelsea, he preferred to be a coach at Liverpool. Regardless, Mourinho became Chelsea Coach in the year 2004 with a salary of 4.2 Million British Pounds a year which was subsequently increased to 5.2 Million British Pounds a year.

 

It was in Chelsea that Mourinho earned the moniker “The Special One” although there were announcers who used “The Great One’ secondary to his press conference in which he stated the following: «Please don’t call me arrogant, but I’m European champion and I think I’m a special one». Chelsea under Mourinho won all of its home games and won six trophies for Chelsea in three years such as the FA Cup, FA Premier League, Football League Cup, and the FA Community Shield. His time at Chelsea was marred by a terrible relationship with Roman Abramovich. Abramovich was worried about money than he was about football [soccer]. In fact, Abramovich took the opportunity [in my opinion] to have Mourinho dismissed after poor results in the beginning of the 2007 and 2008 season.  

Of course, Mourinho also brought some of the problems on his own by fighting with Ashley Cole, Arsene Wenger, and Andrew Johnson. Mourinho also had an altercation with a twelve year old boy in November 2007. This altercation was reported by the BBC with Mourinho apologizing to the child, his parents, and the child’s school. Who cannot forget that Mourinho was arrested in May 2007 for obstructing the police in an attempt to quarantine his dog? It is these defects that while reprehensible were used by the press in an attempt to discredit Chelsea and Mourinho in favour of Abramovich.   After leaving Chelsea, he was offered the post of National Coach for England which he refused. The post of National Coach for England went to Fabio Capello with Mourinho currently unemployed. Mourinho has been linked with the possibility of coaching AC Milan with Drogba as one of his principal players. Attempts to talk with AC Milan and Silvio Berlusconi who is the owner of AC Milan and a former Prime Minister of Italy have not been successful.