It's just hypothetical kiongozi. Soccer is a game of surprises at times! Jibu swali langu, ikifika 24.05 na umeshika ile nafasi yako uliyoizoea...utajisikiaje?
It's just hypothetical kiongozi. Soccer is a game of surprises at times! Jibu swali langu, ikifika 24.05 na umeshika ile nafasi yako uliyoizoea...utajisikiaje?
Jose Mourinho: 'I have a problem. I'm getting better at everything'
"I think," the Chelsea manager José Mourinho says, "I have a problem, which is I'm getting better at everything related to my job since I started. There has been evolution in many different areas – the way I read the game; the way I prepare the game; the way I train; the methodology… I feel better and better. But there is one point where I cannot change: when I face the media, I am never a hypocrite."
Statistically speaking, Mourinho is the most successful club manager in world football. He has won the league titles in each of the four countries where he has managed – his native Portugal, Italy, Spain and England. He has won the Champions League twice. But that, of course, is only the half of it. Mourinho is – arguably – also the most divisive manager in football. There is no manager more likely to ignite the ire of rival fans. The jousting with referees and the FA, the press-conference wind-ups, the touchline sulks – never mind the football, watching Mourinho is almost a spectator sport in itself.
In a cavernous studio in south London, Mourinho has spent the past two hours being photographed in a variety of sport-casual clothing, and climbing in and out of a Jaguar sports car. He is a stylish, but determinedly conservative, dresser, who says he takes little interest in clothes, and whose priority is comfort rather than fashion.
His own wardrobe is invariably a hushed medley of blacks, greys and dark blues. He is not a citrus-coloured sweater kind of guy. He has discharged these photo-shoot duties uncomplainingly, in a businesslike fashion, neither smiling nor scowling, rather wearing an expression of inscrutability so familiar that it almost merits its own adjective, Mourinho-esque. Not even being "photo-bombed" by Didier Drogba, who has wandered in from an adjacent studio, where he is fulfilling his own promotional obligations, can throw Mourinho off his stride.
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When, at the end of the session, everyone gathers round a laptop to examine the photographs, all eyes look expectantly to Mourinho for his verdict. "Not bad," he says. Not bad? Does this mean "excellent", "terrible"? Or simply, as he says, "not bad". It is impossible to tell.
Now he is seated on a sofa in the studio canteen, his two agents – English and Portuguese – within hailing distance. An assortment of cakes and sandwiches and a bottle of water have been placed on the table in front of him. They will remain untouched.
Mourinho's Telegraph shoot is rudely interrupted by Didier Drobga
Mourinho has spent the morning at Chelsea's training ground in Cobham, Surrey. The ritual is always the same. He arrives each day around 7.30am, goes into his office and locks the door, and remains there for the next two hours. "I need my time to be lonely," he says. "You know, in football, I'm not so old. At 52 maybe I have 20 years in front of me to coach. But I feel myself as… you might say an ‘old fox'. Nothing scares me, nothing worries me too much; it looks like nothing new can happen for me. I am very, very stable in the control of these emotions but I need my time to think. Not wake up in the middle of the night worrying about somebody's injury, or the tactic for this match. I need to reflect, I need to try to anticipate problems. I need my time."
"In football nobody is untouchable, but I will not be looking over my shoulder, because I know for which reason I came, I know what kind of job I was asked to do,"
"In football nobody is untouchable, but I will not be looking over my shoulder, because I know for which reason I came, I know what kind of job I was asked to do,"
Ukiachana na fact kwamba NI LAZIMA KOMBE TULICHUKUE SISI...lakini tu-assume Chelsea squad yote imeumwa (this is the only probable reason we will lose the coming games)...the next person kuchukua kombe (judging by the table) ni ARSENAL...FROM LONDON.
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