Benfica coach José Mourinho has said that he has not given up hope that his team can advance past the UCL opening phase. This is coming despite four defeats in as many games, and fans have been reacting.
According to him, even though he can say for sure that Benfica will still qualify, no one can convince him that they’re out either.
Mourinho added that as long as there is still hope for the club, anything can happen in the next set of matches.
His words, “Nobody can convince me that we’re out.
If everyone starts shouting that we’re out, they won’t convince me. I can’t say that we’re going to qualify, but I refuse to accept that it is over now; there are 12 points to play for. We have a chance, the team is improving, there’s nothing that convinces me that we can’t fight.
We don’t need 12 points to qualify, nor 11, and I think not even 10.
But we have [upcoming games against] Napoli, Ajax, Juventus, Real Madrid … We have two games until the end of the calendar year, and if we get six points, we’re in the race.”
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.
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