Galatasaray’s Racist Accusations Backfired On Them – Mourinho

Fenerbahce coach, Jose Mourinho has come out to react to being accused of making racist comments against Galatasaray’s bench. He recently had his say while speaking to the press, and fans have been reacting.

According to him, his remarks were not racist at all, and Galatasaray’s complaints have actually backfired against them after he received support from some of his former players including Didier Drogba, Mikel Obi and Michael Essien.

Jose added that he has a connection with Africa, especially with African people, African players and African charities.

His words, “They were not clever in the way they attacked me, because they didn’t know my past.

They didn’t know my connections with Africa, with African people and African players and African charities. So instead of going against me, I think it boomeranged and went against them.

Everyone knows who I am as a person. Everybody knows my bad qualities, but that is not one of my bad qualities. Exactly the opposite! The most important thing is I know who I am, and the attack accusing racism was a bad choice.”

WOW.

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.