Italy’s Inter Milan coach, the flamboyant Portuguese trainer José Mourinho accidently (or not) slipped out his yearly wage to a reporter on last week’s Champions League press conference.
Before the match Inter Milan – Werder Bremen (ended up in a 1-1 draw), Mourinho dared a reporter to give him 11 names for Wednesday’s match without criticizing them afterwards.
The reporter told him he would do it, if he could get a share in Mourinho’s 9 Million Euro yearly wage at Inter.
Mourinho, who’s known to make bold pronunciations, answered him that he doesn’t earn 9 Million Euro for his coaching job, but 11 million Euro. He also added that if you also take the advertising income into account he’ll even earns up to 14 Million Euro a year at Inter.
Not bad for somebody that started out as a translator for Sir Bobby Robson at Sporting Lisboa in the early nineties. When Sir Bobby Robson left Sporting Lisboa to Coach Spain’s FC Barcelona, Mourinho followed him. When Sir Bobby Robson left Barcelona, Mourinho stayed and helped out the new head coach , Dutchman Louis Van Gaal.
Sir Bobby Robson once told he never saw anybody so passionate about soccer and anybody that reads the game as well than José Mourinho.
After training the FC Barcelona B squad for a couple of years, Mourinho got the opportunity to get back to his country of birth and coach Benfica in the year 2000. After only 9 league games in the Portuguese Championship he quit his coaching job at Benfica because the newly appointed president of Benfica got an eye on another head coach.
In January 2001 he started out as the new head coach of União de Leiria. At the end of the season they’ve ended up on the 5th place, the highest place in their club history.
One year later in January 2002, Mourinho was appointed to be the head coach of FC Porto. In his first year at Porto he finished 3rd. He even said he would make Porto Champions next season.
He kept word and lead FC Porto to the top of the leaderbord with 11 points in front of Benfica and he’d won the Portuguese Cup and the Uefa Cup final .
The next year he again won the Portuguese Competition and to top it all he managed to win the Uefa Champions League with a 3-0 win in a surprising final against AS Monaco.
After this he moved to Chelsea and most of us do know his story since then.
In his few years at Chelsea he has won 2 Premier League titles (‘04/’05 and ‘05/’06), 2 League Cup’s (‘04/’05 and ‘05/’06), the FA Cup in 2007 and the Community Shield in 2005. Only the big trophy in Europe didn’t come on this impressive list.
Now, in his first year at Inter, he has already won the Italian Supercup against AS Roma, beating them on penalties 6-5 after the game itself ended in a 2-2 draw.
Inter’s website has already published an announcement saying that Mourinho, who has a 2 year contract earns a lot less than the amounts that are being told.
My guess is that this is not completely true, I believe Mourinho 
Tags News • Trainers • England • Italy • Portugal • Champions League • Uefa Cup • Permalink
Yesterday AC Milan proudly announced their newest aquisition for the 2008/2009 season in the Italian Serie A.
They signed Ronaldinho from Barcelona until June 30th 2011. Here he will meet his Brazilian teammates Kaka and Pato.
With this signing AC Milan already take an option for next seasons title in the Serie A and hopefully for them a good campaign in the Uefa Cup.
It’s believed AC Milan made a deal with Barcelona for around 8 million Euro.
Last week Barcelona also received an offer from Manchester City of 35 million Euro, so I doubt they’ve let him go for 8 million Euro to Milan.
Now we can only hope that Ronaldinho will find back his form he had before his leg injury that also placed him on Barcelona’s transfer list.
Tags Transfers • Attackers • Midfielders • Italy • Spain • Uefa Cup • Permalink
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