Benfica manager Jose Mourinho has bluntly dismissed questions regarding the Negreira case and Barcelona’s alleged payments to referees. He recently had his say while speaking ahead of a crucial UCL showdown against his former club Real Madrid, in Lisbon, and fans have been reacting.
According to him, he has no interest in dwelling on the past, and his focus remains entirely on his current duties with Benfica, not historical controversies involving his old rivals.
Mourinho added that even though Alvaro Arbeloa wasn’t one of his best players at Madrid, he was surely one of his favourite players at the club.
His words, “It’s something that doesn’t interest me. Honestly, it doesn’t interest me.
I live my career in the present, not in the past. What happened has happened, and that’s it.
They are special former players. With Alvaro, from a personal empathy point of view, he is one of my favourite players of all time.
Arbeola was obviously not the best player who played for me at Real Madrid, but he is surely one of the best men who ever played for me. And he is the last person I would want to put under pressure.”
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Jose Santos Mourinho Félix GOIH is a Portuguese professional football manager and former player who is the current head coach of Italian Serie A club Roma. Dubbed “The Special One” by the British media, Mourinho is one of the most decorated managers ever and is widely considered to be among the greatest managers of all time.
Mourinho was born in 1963 to a large middle-class family in Setúbal (a suburb of the Lisbon metropolitan area), Portugal, the son of José Manuel Mourinho Félix, who was known by the name Félix Mourinho, and his wife, Maria Júlia Carrajola dos Santos. His father played football professionally for Belenenses and Vitória de Setúbal, earning one cap for Portugal in the course of his career.
His mother was a primary school teacher from an affluent background; her uncle funded the construction of the Vitória de Setúbal football stadium. The Carnation Revolution leading to the fall of António de Oliveira Salazar’s Estado Novo regime in April 1974 also led to the family losing all but a single property in nearby Palmela.
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