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APPENDIX

PICTURE CREDITS

SL BENFICA, 2000 - UNIAO DE LEIRIA, 2001-2002

FC PORTO, 2002-2004

CHELSEA FC, 2004-2008

INTER MILAN, 2008-2010

REAL MADRID CF, 2010-2013

CHELSEA FC, 2013-Present

TITLE PAGE

COPYRIGHT

INTRODUCTION

CONTENTS

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It's very hard for me to put my fifteen years as a manager into words - the pivotal moments, my emotions, my memories. But images make it easier - images that I keep in my heart, in my soul, images that let me dive into these moments and talk about them like they happened yesterday.

There have been so many hooks written by people that don't even know me, so many hooks full of untrue comments, so many hooks so far away from what I think, what I feel and who I am.

I can he emotional. I can cry with victories, I can smile with defeats.

In the victories I think about my family's happiness, I enjoy my players' pride, I feel the supporters' ecstasy. In defeat I can smile because I want the next match, because the reaction will make me better and stronger, because I know that a defeat for me is the start of another winning period.

Moments, feelings, memories, emotions - this is my career, this is what I want to share, and the best way to do it is through few words and great images.

From Portugal, England, Italy and Spain - A Liga, the Pre­ mier League, ii Scudetto, La Liga, A Taca de Portugal, the FA Cup and the League Cup, Coppa Italia and Copa del Rey, Supert.aca de Portugal, the Community Shield, Supercoppa ltaliana, Supercopa de Espana, the UEFA Cup and Champions

INTRODUC­ TION

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League ... thank you football for making my childhood dreams come true, hut more than that - thank God for the family I have.

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SL BENFICA 2000

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Head coach for the first time at Benfica.

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I was ready. I was ready to make an impact, I was ready to cope with the responsibility, hut the club wasn't ready for me.

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It was a difficult period for this giant club, financially in trouble, an election period in a presidentialist club - there was great instability. But what an experience for me, and what a memory! My last match was the Lisbon derby: Benfica 3, Sporting 0.

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- UNIAO DE LEIRIA 2001-2002

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Next step - Leiria. It was a small club and I had clear objectives: not to he relegated, to work and develop players, sell some others. It was an important experience for me, and a great motivation to do some­ thing special. Perhaps too special, too fast!

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I arrived in July 2001; by December Leiria was third in the Por­ tuguese league and I already had Benfica and Porto fighting for me. Benfica's new president wanted me hack to restart my work with a 'new' club in search of institutional stability. FC Port.o's president was incredible in his approach. He said: 'Mour­ inho, you are the man for a new Porto, what incentive can I give you to to come?' I wanted nothing. It was enough to know I was the man they wanted.

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My last training session at Leiria. I think they knew what they were doing - throwing me to the world. I left in January 2001 - by May 2002 I was Portuguese champion, by May 2003 I was a UEFA Cup winner, by May 2004 I was European champion.

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I arrived at Porto and in my presentation I told the press: 'Next sea­ son we will he champions.' The pressure was on my shoulders. The only solution was to work better and harder than anyone else.

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One year later, I had won my first championship. This was our last match at home vs Sporting Lisbon. A blue celebration with white hair? Well, I was trying to imagine me ten years later.

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A celebration? No ... just a visit to the thousands of Porto supporters waiting for more than 48 hours to try and get a ticket to the UEFA Cup Final in Sevilla. As they slept and ate in the queue, dreaming about a seat in Sevilla, I visited them, I took some drink and food for them. They were amazingly passionate people. I loved to work for them.

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Sevilla. The UEFA Cup Final against Celtic. It was an amazing foot­ ball match. After 90 minutes the score was 2-2 and we were heading for extra time. These were important minutes. We needed a game plan for the last, crucial 30 minutes. It's incredible to see their atten­ tiveness, incredible the way they are concentrating on my words. Seven of these players are now football managers. Legacy? Or just coincidence?

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The game finishes 3-2 after extra time, and I have my first European trophy. I will never forget it. We landed in Porto and we went directly to our stadium. At 4 a.m. it was full! That's passion. I liked that feel­ ing of making others happy, hut I wanted more ...

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And a week later, I got my wish. The Portuguese cup final - three titles in a couple of weeks. A team of babies won the treble ... players who had come from the youth team, players I brought from Leiria, players we bought from small Portuguese clubs, players without titles, players ready to work, fight for success, for their future. An amazing team, a team that might have been destroyed, hut the presi­ dent fought to keep it intact. 'Mourinho, don't leave Porto, stay one more season, I promise I won't sell one single player, let's dream about the Champions League.' I decided to stay ... and we did dream.

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Portuguese champions again in 2004, and a strange experience because Sporting drew and we celebrated the title in the hotel before we played our game the next day. Two minutes after the final whistle of the Sporting game, the square by the hotel became blue and white. We went to the windows and balconies: champagne, happiness and more champagne. We had won our second league title in two seasons.

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We were also enjoying our Champions League run as outsiders. In the first knock-out stage we heat Manchester United at home, 2-1. And then my first visit to Old Trafford, the theatre of dreams - why not make your dreams come true? A last-minute goal ... why not cele­ brate it this way? This is surely an iconic picture in my career. A 50- metre sprint at Old Trafford. The next day I had two big English clubs knocking on my door. A blue and a red.

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Players, subs, manager, flag! Madness, hut madness from our hearts.

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Gelsenkirchen. The Champions League Final, 26 May 2004. Porto vs Monaco. I prepared every detail of our game plan, hut more than that I had to prepare myself. I needed emotional balance, emotional con­ trol, in a game that wasn't just a game. This was a Champions League

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for me, for us, for Porto, for Portugal. This was our history. When we scored the third goal my mask disappeared. I don't need to look at hooks to remember these players: Vitor Baia, Paulo Ferreira, Ricardo Carvalho, Jorge Costa, Nuno Valente, Costinha, Pedro Mendes, Maniche, Deco, Derlei, Carlos Alberto. And on the bench: Nuno, Ricardo Costa, Jose Bosingwa, Pedro Emanuel, Dmitri Alenichev, Edgaras Jankauskas, Benni McCarthy. Thirteen Portuguese players - eleven of whom arrived at the club in my period there.

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Before the game, in the press conference, she was on the table and I refused to touch or even look at her. After the game, in the dressing room, I got her, and I keep this picture hidden in my memories.

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They were there! I couldn't see my family in the stadium, hut I felt their presence all the time. I had won a Champions League with a Portuguese team less than four years after the start of my managerial career. But while all this crossed my mind in the last moments of the game, I was still thinking - they are here! This picture means the world.

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After the final we flew in to Porto. Here I am hand-in-hand with Matilde, holding the match ball. History made, two days later we flew to London.

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CHELSEA FC 2004-2008

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I landed in London with pressure on my shoulders again. I had said at my Porto press conference 'next season we are going to he champi­ ons', and this time there was a pearl for the English media: 'I am a special one.' Pressure? Yes, hut positive pressure. Let's go!

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A few months later we were in the League Cup Final against Liver­ pool. It was 1-1 at full-time and here I'm saying: 'Calm down because the game isn't over. We have extra time to play.'

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The League Cup. My first title with Chelsea. It was the first title for the owner, and the feeling was that this was just the beginning.

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Almost 50 years later, Chelsea FC are League Champions again! My third championship in three consecutive years. We clinched the Pre­ mier League title after victory at Bolton - these were emotional scenes with the Chelsea family.

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At half-time I told my players: 'Make sure the next time you put a foot in this dressing room you are champions, make sure you don't wait for next week. It's here, it's now, go and win.' They did it.

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Champions at Bolton, lifting the cup at Stamford Bridge.

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We were loving our life in England.

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... my family was happy.

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Sir Bobby Robson awarding me the UEFA Coach of the Year Award at Stamford Bridge.

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With Chelsea supporters there was passion from day one.

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My second season in charge starts with the Community Shield, and victory over Arsenal.

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Relations with the players were phenomenal.

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Pele presented me with the award at the BBC Sports Personality of the Year ceremony.

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Our second Premier League was arriving and with a record points tally - one that is still in place to this day.

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A 3-0 victory over Manchester United gave me my fourth champi­ onship in a row.

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The 2006/2007 season. Another League Cup title, hut a draw at Arse­ nal stopped our dream of the treble. But even in defeat we were a team, even in defeat we had pride, even in defeat we were preparing for the next victory.

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A couple of weeks later we played in the first FA Cup Final at the new Wembley stadium, against Manchester United, and completed the set of English trophies. In three seasons we won everything. Another extra time, another magic moment. It was the 119th minute and Drogba scored. It was an honour to lift the cup in front of Prince William.

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I was so happy to walk up the iconic stairs. How many times as a kid had I watched FA Cup Finals? This time it was me coming hack down with the trophy. Amazing.

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When Chelsea and I ended our contract in September of the 2007 /2008 season, the fans couldn't believe it. Here they show their feelings with a banner on the Fulham Road. I left, hut I always felt that I would return.

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INTER MILAN 2008-2010

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After Chelsea and English football, I wanted more. I wanted a differ­ ent football culture, a new challenge, and, if possible, a difficult one. Mr Moratti and Inter Milan had a dream for almost fifty years, to be European champions. I knew I would have to study the league, know every detail about the teams and players, and learn the language. Once more I was ready, once more my family was open to a new adventure.

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With Eusebio, the most important sportsman in our country's history. As manager of Inter we won the first Eusebio Cup (a pre-season tour­ nament held annually in his honour), and Mr Moratti told me, 'Keep the cup, Jose, I know what he means to you.'

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In my first season in Italy we won the Italian Supercup with victory against Roma, and here we are celebrating winning the league. It was a Scudetto that we dominated in a comfortable way.

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With my assistant Rui Faria. What do we need to have a chance in the Champions League? We thought, we discussed, we analysed, we pro­ jected, and once more we dreamt.

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The more we were focused on our Champions League dream, the more difficulties we had in the Italian league. We suffered a couple of defeats, Roma were pushing hard. I felt mistake after mistake was being made against us by officials. At one period I was training 11v10 so many times for when one of our players got sent off, hut I forgot 11v9. It happened on this day against Sampdoria when two of my play­ ers were sent off.

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We reached the last sixteen of the Champions League knock-out stages, only to be drawn with Chelsea! It was so difficult - my Inter against my Chelsea. And Chelsea was literally my Chelsea - the play­ ers I loved, the team I had built. Stamford Bridge - my stadium, the stadium where I never lose. The final score was Chelsea O Inter 1. It felt like Inter had broken a psychological wall where before they had continually failed in the Champions League. In March we found our­ selves top of the league, in the quarter-finals of the Champions League and in the quarter-finals of the Italian cup.

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A special number ten. Adapted to play in a 4-3-3 and a 4-4-2. He made the difference when it came to the strategies needed for Cham­ pions League games. Here the result was Inter Milan 3, Barcelona 1.

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The Champions League. The best team in the world came to the San Siro and lost 3-1. In the second leg in Barcelona we had a dream, but they had an obsession. We wanted to win the Champions League but they wanted to win the Champions League in the Santiago Berriabeu Stadium. In the second leg in Barcelona, after only a few minutes we were down to ten men. It seemed like an impossible mission, but we were ready for everything. We were experienced at playing with ten men. We had great defensive organisation, a clear game plan, big hearts, and we were ready to sweat blood. We lost 1-0 but won 3-2 on aggregate. Inter was in the Madrid final ...

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We arrived at Milan airport after knocking Barca out to he met with a great sense of anticipation as we prepared for the end of the season. Like the supporters, we were feeling unbeatable, we were feeling that the best was to come ...

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Two weeks to the end of the season, three matches to play: the cup final against Roma in the Stadio Olimpico, the last league match in Siena where Inter needed to win to be champions and, a few days lat­ er, Inter v Bayern Munich in Madrid in the Champions League Final. 1 ! Coppa Italia: Roma O Inter 1.

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2 ! Scudetto: Siena O, Inter 1.

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And 3! Champions League: Bayern Munich 0, Inter 2. My town and my people were in Madrid.

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With Louis van Gaal. To manage a team in a Champions League Final against him was strange - to fight for the biggest prize against a friend wasn't easy, hut that's football.

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We were ready. We won even before the kick-off. The lnterista family played their part. And that cup was ours, that cup was flying to Milan. 11 Duomo was burning and waiting for us.

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It was like I was playing - here I stopped Robben from taking a fast throw-in.

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Celebrating our second goal.

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The final whistle. My last match with Inter. The biggest prize. Too much!

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My captain.

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I needed to find my family.

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My flag.

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People like him make lnter's history.

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With President Moratti. This was his dream.

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I needed a shower.

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My hoy was also emotional with our second Champions League.

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Our dream, my hall, our cup, my team: T ulio Cesar, Mai con, Lucio, Samuel, Chivu, Zanetti, Camhiasso, Eto'o, Sne ijder, Pandev and Mili­ to. On the bench were Toldo, Cordoba, Mariga, Stankovic', M untari, Balotelli, Materazzi - and Motta suspended. After refusing Real Madrid twice, it was time to go and try to he the first person to win the Premier League, Scudetto and La Liga.

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11 Duomo

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REAL MADRID CF 2010-2013

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With the FIFA World Coach of the Year award. After winning the tre­ ble with Inter I would have been an easy choice.

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I was emotional, and in a flash I can remember all I got through to be there and be elected the best manager in the world.

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Breaking Barcelona's dominance was difficult hut I felt passionate about the task. Real Madrid is a huge club, hut it wasn't easy. I gave all I had, I worked harder than ever. Again I won every competition in a new country: La Liga (with a record 100 points and 121 goals), Copa del Rey (for the first time in eighteen years) and the Spanish Super­ cup, heating Barcelona in the final. We were so close to reaching the Champions League Final, hut we were eliminated by Bayern Munich. In the first leg we conceded in the last minute and in the second we missed three penalties in the shoot-out.

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For sure I was losing!

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A great final (and another one that went to extra time) in Valencia as we heat Barcelona to win the Copa del Rey.

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On the flight with the trophy.

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A special visit.

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With Don Alfredo Di Stefano as he presented me with the Spanish Coach of the Year award.

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We were virtually champions in the Camp Nou with a 3-1 victory, hut we were mathematically champions two weeks later in the cathedral of Bilbao ...

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Seven league titles and the only person to be a champion in England, Spain and Italy, as well as Portugal. That's the reason for the big smile.

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On the podium to receive the La Liga Trophy.

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As always: my passion, my support, my happiness.

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A different shirt to Inter, hut the same smile and happiness.

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We made history when we reached 100 points on the way to winning La Liga in 2012.

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An amazing club. Madrid stopped to celebrate the title.

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My last game against the boss at Old Trafford. We heat United 2-1 in the last 16 of the Champions League, in March 2013. A special man, a special opponent, a special friend.

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My office. So many hours of work, one last trophy- the Super Cup. A moment to he happy again. Happiness isn't all about winning. Happi­ ness is smiling a lot, and being surrounded by people you love at home, by people you like in your work. It was time to he happy again. There were different options, hut only one decision for my family. England, London, Chelsea FC. Tradition says: 'Don't go hack to a club where you were happy before.' Perfect - another challenge is exactly what I wanted!

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Chelsea, again.

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I knew that one day I would he hack. Back to rebuild, hack to end an era, hack to start a new team with new players with the same ambi­ tions, and win again!

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I was awarded the Football Writers' Tribute Award at the FWA Awards.

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Being one of the fans makes me live my job in a different way. It's a positive - it means I am more than just a manager.

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This is exactly the way I feel it. Not just the Chelsea manager, hut one of them.

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And they knew it. They knew that I was one of them. Back to stay, hack to give my talent, my work, hut also my passion.

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31 December, midnight. Only in England could I be celebrating the new year in the team hotel ... drinking tea! The first season was the season of the 'almost'. Almost champions, almost there. But it was also the season of the rebuild. The 'pre-season' of a successful season - 2014/2015.

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I was so proud to win the best manager in the history of Portuguese football award for the centenary of the Portuguese FA. There are no words! It was such an honour, such a moment, in front of all the important people in the history of Portuguese football, to win this award.

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Before the final, before the national anthem. What are these two laughing at? I was telling him that I was desperate to start the game, hut if I played instead of being the manager I would he off within five minutes. 'Why boss, injured?' he said. And I answered him: 'No, with a red card; with the adrenaline I have, I would have ended up kicking someone!'

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1 March, 2015. The League Cup Final. Back to Wembley, back to win. After finals against Manchester United, Liverpool and Arsenal, this time it was another London rival in Tottenham. A kiss to my family. We were ninety minutes away from our first trophy of the season.

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I was really happy to win the League Cup. Our work was getting results.

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A first cup for these boys, a first cup for me in my second period at Chelsea.

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Six kids ... or six plus an old kid! Football gets the best out of us. I always say: enjoy it, boys, because it is so hard to win that you have to enjoy it when you do.

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The Premier League was almost ours. Almost ... almost ... But football isn't about almost, it's about doing it. 3 May 2015. Chelsea vs Crystal Palace. Three points and a fourth Premier League for Chelsea. Three points and my third Premier League. Three points and my eighth league title in four different countries. The last minute. I'm gestur­ ing to Didi to say 'hold the ball, run the clock down.' My son is feeling the pressure of the moment, my daughter hides behind the TV cam­ era, my wife waits for the last whistle.

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A throw-in in the Palace half. No time for more danger. Champions!

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No cup - not yet! It was our fault for being champions before the last match ... But this is a really a special picture in my office at Stamford Bridge a couple of minutes after the game. A special photo, a special family. We left Portugal in 2004 and we are having a phenomenal adventure. Different countries, different clubs, different schools, different teachers and friends, hut always a great family. Without them and their unconditional support, I couldn't have had the career I have had. I owe them that.

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After the title victory, the hangover and a defeat to West Brom, it was important to remember we were still number one, we were champi­ ons, we were special. One finger says it all.

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24 May, 2015, Stamford Bridge. They are relaxed, hut not me. We are champions hut we have a last game at home before we receive the cup. The day won't have the same taste without a victory - we have to win. I have one defeat in 99 Premier League matches at home. The Guin­ ness Book of Records have just informed me about the record and this moment is really one that means a lot - in England, in the most diffi­ cult and competitive championship in world football. Ninety-nine

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matches at Stamford Bridge with only one defeat - with a penalty that was never a penalty!

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A testimonial for the champions of 2004/2005. A great moment to be reunited with my players. Many of them are retired from football, others are starting a managerial career, but in football friends stay forever.

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A great day. Medals around our necks, the cup in our hands.

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As Rui Faria said to me, this was a day to enjoy, hut also a day to think about what made us champions, so we know how to repeat it.

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Eight league titles - I still have two fingers available!

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Watching them is watching happiness. It was the first title for many, one more unforgettable moment from the side.

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And now I can leave from the hack of the celebrations with the feel­ ing of 'job done'.

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My wife, my daughter, my son. Their cup.

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Enjoying the parade.

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A super shirt.

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The end of the season. Tired? Definitely, yes. But in one week I'll be ready for more!

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APPENDIX

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Madame Tussauds in London. A football manager? This was a sur­ prise, and also an honour.

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In Portugal. It was a great honour to receive the Ordem do Infante. It was also a responsibility I feel every day, especially representing my country abroad.

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Football gave me a lot - pride, honour and the possibility to do good, to help people. It was heartbreaking to meet these kids. So hard, hut a beautiful feeling to attract people's attention and support for these causes. And all of them I met over the years are so beautiful.

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A visit to Israel and Palestine ... Coach for Peace. Playing with kids, meeting politic power. Can football unite people? Yes.

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Academy football in Africa: Senegal, Ghana, Ivory Coast. I feel their dream and support them. Beautiful.

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I am a WFP Ambassador. I feel so proud of it and thankful to football for allowing me this status and being able to have a positive social influence.

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Doctor Honoris Causa in my FMH Sports University in Lisbon. My parents' pride with my career is a great feeling for a son.

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With the World Food Programme in the Ivory Coast. A unique feel­ ing, facing the sad reality. I want to help, I want to he a voice.

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Setubal, my city. I was given this award by the mayor. I couldn't he there because it was a match day, hut my wife and little daughter received it. In 2013 they named a road after me: Jose Mourinho Avenue. My city is always proud of my career. And I am always Jose from Setubal,

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Soccer Aid uses football to help people. I am always happy to do it.

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Players' kids are always welcome in our space.

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Twenty-second, hut not the last ...

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- FEDERA<;AO PORTUGUESA DE FUTEBOL 196

DAILY MAIL 204 (Andy Hooper), 228-229 (Kevin Quigley)

CO RBIS 95 (Antonio Cotrim/epa)

CHARLES BRISCOE-KNIGHT 260

BBC 76 (Richard Kendal)

ADOPTARFAMA/NUNO LOPES 45,46

ACTION IMAGES 42 (Michael Regan), 59, 61 (Darren Walsh), 67 (Tony O'Brien), 68 (Alex Morton), 81 (Michael Regan), 82 (Tony O'Brien), 86- 87 (Andrew Couldridge), 187 (Andrew Boyers), 198-199 (via REUTERS/Matthew Childs Livepic)

PICTURE CREDITS

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REAL MADRID

GIORGIO RAVEZZANI 96-97, 98

PRESS ASSOCIATION IMAGES 36 (Paulo Esteves/ AP), 73 (Darren Walsh/Chelsea FC), 105 (Luca Bruno/ AP), 161 (Daniel Ochoa de Olza/ AP), 188 (Peter Byrne/PA Archive)

, PERSONAL COLLECTION OF JOSE MOURINHO 34-35,49,194,212,230(both)

GETTY IMAGES 53 (Ben Radford), 56 (Paul Ellis/ AFP), 62 (Adrian Den­ nis/ AFP), 85 (Phil Cole), 88-89 (Shaun Curry/ AFP), 100-101 (Giuseppe Cacace/ AFP), 102-103 (Shaun Botterill), 106-107 (Michael Regan), 111 (Alberto Lingria/ AFP), 117, 121 (Alex Livesey), 125 (Bob Thomas/Popperfoto), 132-133 (Shaun Bot­ terill), 135 (Alex Livesey), 136 (Giuseppe Bellini), 139 (Alex Livesey), 140-141 (Giuseppe Bellini), 142-143 (Giuseppe Cacace/ AFP), 148 (Michael Steele), 182-183 (John Phillips/UK Press), 214-215 (Shaun Botterill), 225 (Michael Regan), 244 (John Cassidy), 250 (Carl Court/AFP), 248 (Kambou Sia/AFP), 259 (Dave J. Hogan), 262-263 (Adrian Dennis/ AFP)

GESTIFUTE MEDIA/JORGE MONTEIRO 24,30, 64, 70, 114-115, 122-123, 127, 128, 130, 147, 151, 152-153, 158,168,174-175,176-177,184,192-193,200-201,203,206-207, 208-209, 211, 216, 218-219, 221, 222, 226-227, 231, 232-233, 234-235,237,240,242-243

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WORLD FOOD PROGRAMME 255 (Thierry Gouegnon)

REUTERS VIA ACTION IMAGES 38-39, 55 (Ian Hodgson), 74-75 (Victor Fraile), 79 (Dylan Mar­ tinez), 92, 108-109 (Alessandro Garofalo), 112-113 (Marco Buc­ co), 190-191 (Toby Melville)

RECORD 9 (Pedro Sa da Banderra), 10 (Jose Lorvao), 13 (Pedro Sa da Bande ira), 16 (Paulo Henriques), 19 (Fernando Ferreira), 20 (Miguel Barreira), 26 (Manuel Araujo), 28, 33, 40-41 (Luis Vieira), 118-119 (Miguel Barreira), 247, 253 (Pedro Pereira), 256 (Miguel Barreira)

155, 179 (Victor Carretero), 156, 165, 171 (Helios de la Rubia), 163, 166-167, 172-173 (Angel Martinez)

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