Jose Mourinho is a very guarded person and he usually plays things close to the chest. He rarely says things in public without it being calculated and well thought out and everything he says must be taken with a grain of salt. He is also often accused of being arrogant, which according to an intimate interview with the Daily Mirror, can get under his skin at times.
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Mourinho met with Mirror reporter Clemmie Moodie and was interviewed on topics that have more to do with his life than his football exploits. Moodie does some digging and Jose Mourinho obliges with thoughtful answers about his family and how likes to unwind. Here are some of the best bits of the interview.
On his marriage to wife Tami:
“My wife trusts me, my wife knows me,” he says. “She has been with me since I was 17 and she was 15 – everything is so crystal clear for us. My social life doesn’t exist. I have my professional work and I have my family life. I am not the kind of guy with a social life and I am so happy the way I am.
“I’m romantic in the sense that the people I love, they have to know that I love them, and they do know it, and they feel it. My wife did a tattoo and challenged me to do it. I didn’t at first because I always felt, ‘Urrrgh it hurts’ and ‘I don’t have to do this to my skin’, and so on and so on. But it was her birthday and I thought it would be a good gift to her. So I had my wife and my kids’ names on my wrist and it was not as painful as I thought. It was easy.
On love being the great motivator:
“The secret in everything is love. If you are successful in football, it is because you love football. If you are successful in any job, I believe it is because you are in love with that job and if you have a successful family it is because people are in love with each other. Love is the basic.”
On his growing family:
“For me, the perfect weekend is when I am at home with my family. This is rare and not normal so I like it. So perhaps watch my son play football and then have dinner in a restaurant. My son and daughter are now of ages where they have their own lives. I cannot make a decision like five or six years ago, for example, leave here today, now, get on a plane, and just go to Sardinia or the south of Portugal.”
Mourinho on being called arrogant:
“If people say I am an arrogant football manager, maybe they are not so wrong,” he muses. “These people don’t know me personally – they are not my friends, they are not my family. But if some family or some friends say I am arrogant, then I am upset. Because I am not an arrogant friend, I’m not an arrogant family member. I am soft.”
This interview gives some wonderful insights in to the mind of a man we only know as one of the greatest football managers. We often forget that Jose Mourinho is also a husband and father and he has a life outside of football and of course outside of Chelsea FC. Check out the rest of the interview here, it is a wonderful read.
Source: Daily Mirror
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