Mourinho rejected Portugal
According to A Bola newspaper on November 24, Mourinho has considered and thinks this is not the time to leave the day-to-day coaching job at club level. Therefore, the Portuguese coach wants to continue to lead Roma at least until the end of his contract.
Mourinho is the brightest candidate to sit in the hot seat of the Portuguese team, after Fernando Santos was sacked for his failure in the quarter-finals of the 2022 World Cup. The Portuguese Football Federation (FPF) approached and discussed directly with Mourinho when he and Roma returned to his hometown to train from December 16.
"The Special One" also received great support from the Portuguese public. According to a survey in A Bola, to the question "Is Jose Mourinho the ideal choice for the national team", 55.5% of participants answered "Yes", 24.6% answered "No" and 19.9% choose another option, can be a domestic or foreign coach.
It was Roma striker Tammy Abraham who admitted this information. "Mourinho is a great coach and every team wants to have him. It's an honor that a big team like Portugal are interested in Mourinho," the England striker told La Gazzetta dello Sport, but believed the teacher would continue. continue to work in Rome.
According to Brazilian newspaper Globo, Mourinho's rejection of the Portugal squad is proof that top coaches will not work at the national team level for many years to come. This newspaper pointed out that the most appreciated Italian coach is Carlo Ancelotti, but the country's team is led by Roberto Mancini. In Portugal, Mourinho is the best, but Santos has been in charge of the team for the past eight years. Similarly, at the 2022 World Cup, Spain and Germany are led by Luis Enrique and Hansi Flick, while Pep Guardiola and Jurgen Klopp - the most highly regarded coaches in these two countries - work in the English Premier League.
Besides Mourinho, FPF also considered inviting Luis Enrique - who had just left Spain after the defeat in the 2022 World Cup and Abel Ferreira - the current coach of Brazilian club Palmeiras. Other candidates include Sergio Conceicao (Porto), Paul Fonseca (Lille), Ruben Amorim (Sporting Lisbon) and Andre Villas-Boas - former manager of Porto, Chelsea is free after leaving Marseille last summer.
Mourinho is also in the sights of the Brazilian Football Federation (CFB). After losing to Croatia in the quarter-finals of the 2022 World Cup, coach Tite resigned and ended six years leading Brazil. According to ESPN, CFB will soon contact agent Jorge Mendes to discuss the possibility of inviting Mourinho to take over Tite's hot seat.
In the summer of 2021, Mourinho begins to lead Roma on a three-year contract, until 2024. In the first year, the Portuguese coach helped Roma quench their thirst in the European arena when they won the Conference League 2022. This is the fifth European Cup. of Mourinho, after the UEFA Cup (the predecessor of the Europa League) 2003, the 2004 Champions League with FC Porto, the 2010 Champions League with Inter and the 2017 Europa League with Man Utd. He was the first manager to win all three of UEFA's existing European Cups and has had three Cups tattooed on his shoulder to mark this achievement.
Mourinho has won 27 trophies during his coaching career. The World Football History and Statistics Organization once honored him as the best coach in 2004, 2005, 2010, 2012 and selected as the best coach in the 2001-2020 period. However, the 59-year-old coach has never led a national team.
