After the final whistle, the then inter-trainer José Mourinho ran across the lawn of the Nou Camp in Barcelona.
Photo: Image/AfloSport
Will José Mourinho sit in front of the television on Wednesday? There is not so much to do in Istanbul, where he has left Fenerbahce in the round of 16 of the Europa League against the Glasgow Rangers and also has only modest chances in the home in the home süper league. This does not correspond to Mourinho’s self -image. The Portuguese shaped the European football circus like no other, but his last victory in the Champions League has already set a little patina. He dates from spring 2010, and the way there was a coach of Inter Milan about a memorable game at FC Barcelona. This will come to the rejection on Wednesday, again in the semi -finals of the largest and best annual football competition in the world.
The history goes back to the summer of 2008, when Barcelona was looking for a new coach after the separation of Frank Rijkaard and also negotiated with Mourinho. He had very concrete ideas up to the order of the Ko trainer. Mourinho favored Josep Guardiola, who at that time looked after Barça’s second team. In the end, however, it came, as it seems too logical in retrospect. Mourinho took over the Catenaccio traditionalists from Inter, Barcelona, the Renaissance of the Blue-Red Poetry entrusted the club-like Guardiola.
Circus Europe
Photo: private
In the past, the national champions are simply cup, today Champions League: a staged spectacle and money printing machine of football. Sven Goldmann looks at the coming matchday.
Two years later, the two met in the semi -finals of the Champions League. Barça had to compete on the bus for the 1000 -kilometer trip to the first leg because a volcano had broken out in distant Island and had paralyzed European air traffic. Inter won 3: 1 and concentrated in the second leg on a tactic that Mourinho’s teams have always liked to practice. For a whole football evening, Inter parked the team bus in front of the penalty area, so that the Señores Messi, Xavi, Busquets and Co. could hardly be used to use the beauty of their game profitably.
It also did not help them decisively that Inters Thiago Motta flew off the pitch early. Only shortly before the end, Gerard Piqué scored a goal, Mourinho had it as stoically as the four -minute stoppage time. But when it was finally over, he sprinted across the square with arms stretched out, hunted by Barcelona’s goalkeeper Víctor Valdés. Only the spontaneously switched on lawn sprinklers ended the private party of Inters coach in Barças Stadion.
Later he spoke of the “most beautiful defeat of my career, my players sweated blood,” and the “Gazzetta dello Sport” celebrated him for the “Muro di Gloria”, the wall built on the lawn. A few weeks later, after the finale won against FC Bayern, Mourinho moved on to Real Madrid. Since then, club and coach have been waiting for a da Capo in the Champions League. Mourinho failed with Real, Chelsea, Manchester United, Tottenham and Roma, Inter came to the final two years ago. And now takes a new attempt on Wednesday in the Nou Camp.
demo slot sbobet88 judi bola judi bola online