How to win the Champions League: Jose Mourinho is focused on two wins of Portuguese coach in 2004, with Porto, and his 2010 victory with Inter.
Mourinho has sometimes called into question Dell Alley at Tottenham and Paul Pogba at Manchester United.
But, as the Portuguese manager explains it happily, and Eto’o is a embodiment, Mourinho, about 2010, in the full stage of extracting the best of his players. It’s a rise in the current climate of the players’ current climate – but as Eto’o and Mourinho explain, they worked completely.
“It’s so happy that Mourinho told me he needed something special,” Eto’o said. “He wanted a very disciplined role because I respect him very much. I said ‘yes, coach’ and I adhered to my duty carefully.
Fifteen years later, in a Western London hotel, Mourinho is also happy to think about his methodology.
“The individual form of communication, motivation, always something very very important,” he says. “There is no secret. Just looking at each of them, knowing them, understanding, and treating them as a complete individual. It would have been like you if you had one son and a daughter.