Thursday, April 29, 2010

Mourinho is good, really good.

Courtesy of BBC

After 38 years, Inter Milan finally able to reach the final of the European Champions League with an aggregate 3-2 win over the defending champion Barcelona. It was a fantastic match.

Inter Milan played with only 10 men for 62 minutes, produced a defensive masterclass to hold on to their 3-1 lead in the first leg encounter.

Just look at the match statistic, Barcelona was in possession of the ball for 76% of the time and with a total of 16 attempts on & off target compare to Inter Milan's zero attempt, it was a classic match of Inter Milan's defence against Barcelona's attack. Even though the defence finally gave way on the 84th minute to give Barcelona a 1-0 victory on this second leg match, Inter Milan was able to proceed to the final to face Bayern Munich on May 22 with an aggregated 3-2 score.

The first time I noticed Jose Mourinho was when he became the Manager for Chelsea in 2004. In a press conference after joining Chelsea, he said, "Please don't call me arrogant, but I'm European Champion and I think I'm a special one." Since then the British press started to refer to him as "The Special One".

Under Mourinho from 2004 to 2007, Chelsea regained the English Premier League Title twice, after a lapse of 50 years. His other achievements include winning the League Cup 2005 & 2007, Community Shield 2005 and FA Cup 2007, a fantastic achievement for a manager.

Mourinho may be arrogant but he has his principle, he is sincere and more gentlemen than Alex Ferguson, I really respect him. I hope his Inter Milan can win the Champion League in May.


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