Jose Mourinho

José Mário dos Santos Félix Mourinho (Portuguese pronunciation: [ʒuˈzɛ moˈɾiɲu]; born 26 January 1963 in Setúbal) is a Portuguese football managerand the current manager of Real Madrid. He has the nickname "The Special One".[2] Mourinho is regarded by some players and coaches as the best evercoach in football.[3][4][5][6]
Mourinho started out as a player but he was unable to forge a meaningful career in the game and eventually switched tomanagement. After spells working as an assistant manager and a youth team coach in the early 1990s, he became an interpreter for Sir Bobby Robson.There he worked with him at Sporting Clube de Portugal and Porto in Portugal, before following him to Spanish club Barcelona. He remained in theCatalonian club after Robson's departure and worked with the successor, Louis van Gaal.
He began focusing on coaching and impressed with brief butsuccessful managerial periods at Benfica and União de Leiria. He returned to Porto in 2002, this time as head coach, winning the Primeira Liga, Taça dePortugal, and UEFA Cup in 2003. In 2004 Mourinho guided the team to the top of the league for a second time and won the highest honour in European clubfootball, the UEFA Champions League.
Mourinho moved to Chelsea the following year and won two consecutive Premier League titles in 2005 and 2006. Heoften courted controversy for his outspokenness, but his victories at Chelsea and Porto established him as one of the world's top football managers.