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Former Real Madrid and Chelsea manager Jose Mourinho believes that the sport is now overrun by empty coaches being propped up social media
Roma manager Jose Mourinho has hit out at critics of his team’s style of play and claimed that they were being deceived by coaches with shallow achievements who are bandied about as great managers on social media.
Mourinho defends style of play
Mourinho has often been criticised for not playing “attractive” football, but the former Real Madrid, Chelsea, and Manchester United manager reiterated to Coriello Dello Sport his belief that football is more about winning than looking good.
The 60-year-old manager was asked about his style of football being considered outdated in the present era, and he replied, “Sport is about winning, even if you’re in a lesser quality team or individual sport.
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Mourinho continued, “When Jacobs takes on a kid doing 12 and 5 in the 100m, the kid knows he doesn’t have a chance to beat him, however, that day Jacobs could stop after 10 yards and the kid would have an opportunity to take.
“You never start not to win, every time I hear about quality without victories, I say that it is one of the many lies of a world in which meritocracy, the pragmatism of results, and the cruelty of defeat have disappeared.
Mourinho blames social media influence on warped football reality
The two-time UEFA Champions League winner blamed the recent spate of unbalanced ideologies around the game was caused by social media influence on how managers and success are viewed.
“Harnessing the power of social media, drugged concepts and evaluations are passed. Characters without titles pass themselves off as great coaches, but I believe that the correct value determines the career, Mourinho said.
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He also claimed that after the likes of Real Madrid gaffer Carlo Ancelotti retire, coaches will not have meaningful and lengthy careers the way that he and others in the same class have done.
“When Carlo’s generation ends, mine and others of the same age who have won so much, I doubt that we will find equally long and successful careers, Mourinho said, continuing, “The new phenomena will be chewed quickly.
“Today the good coach arrives with more speed, and with the same speed is replaced by other passing phenomena. Before, it was the pragmatism of results that made a good coach, it was the cruelty of a defeat that forced a professional to go to A, B, C to fight to try to get back to that level.”
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