How Mourinho Turned A Team Of OLD MEN Into The Best In The World

about two years ago Mourinho said give me all the old man Christian Ronaldo Lionel Messi Drogba Lampard Terry hamour Tang Dani Alves I would win the league the champions league and the FIFA best coach of the year with them the internet love this quote some fantasized about some billionaire making it all possible drug by and Terry even made sure to say they were in if the plan was to go ahead but some some doubted Mooring which surprised me since Mourinho has done this already he literally won the Champions League with the oldest team to ever

play in a final I don't think people realize how much of an achievement this was when Mourinho arrived at inter they had not won the Champions League since he was two years old that's more than four decades waiting for the trophy made 10 times worse by the fact their City Rivals AC Milan had won it six times over that period being the most successful team in the whole world by 2008 internet gotten more desperate than ever when shiny had been at the club for three years they had won the league three times in a row

in part thanks to the kalchopolis Scandal and it was clear to everyone they were the strongest team in Italy it was the kind of dominance they had not experienced since the 60s when they last won the European Cup but despite all of that internationally Mancini brought them disappointment after these appointments three consecutive last 16 exits which surprisingly to many led him to be sacked and replaced with mourinhoe just left his Empire at Chelsea following disagreements with Abramovich Mourinho once said the most important thing when you get to a club is establishing what the club wants

and from there on out you work your hardest to make it possible inter wanted to maintain their dominance of Italian football but also to do their best in the Champions League looking in between the lines you can see the club thought that winning the UCL was an Impossible Dream anyone would have just laid back made a couple Surefire signings taken one or two more skudets and moved on but there is a reason they say Mourinho is special he told them that winning the skudetu was a given and when it came to the Champions League it

was simple it was going to use the first season to get a good feeling of how the team faces challenge like that and by the end he would have a report for a demon exactly what they needed to win it step by step so rightfully as that first season started he didn't need to go crazy in the transfer market to shake things up it was a disrupter himself first of all he let go of some dead weights with solari's contract expiring you let him leave to Argentina the same went for hekova who had been loaned

out to Reno and when it came to the actual sales mode you barely moved the finger not a single starter was sold at summer however on some Messier back and forths Adriano was brought back from his loan at Sao Paulo following his stretch of good form in hopes that his struggles with alcoholism were in the past while Hernan krespu was already on loan at intel was signed permanently after his contract with Chelsea ran out finally when it came to the few purchases it did make they were mostly just reasonable transfers except for collagema who was

the exact opposite with Mourinho risking it all making the Prodigal Son of Portuguese football his most expensive transfer of the Season besides them moringu signed montari was impressed him by being a center figure in portsmouth's Fairy Tale run towards an FA Cup title trying to add some speed and strength to his Midfield while on the other hand is other signing Mancini from Houma was brought in in hopes he could add a bit more golf threats to their Midfield though that transfer seemed to be a reaction to the fact that moding's number one request an obsession

Frank Lampard ended up going back on his word and deciding to stay in London when the deal was 99 done after getting the news that his mom had passed away Maureen would go on to call that the biggest disappointment of his career and yeah that was pretty much it the team was assembled but one thing stood out to everyone their age just looking at the players who got regular playing time in defense Cordova was 32 Walter Samuel 31 matarazi and Zanetti the captain of the team were both 35 years old and it didn't get better

higher up the pitch with most of their midfielders being over or very close to 30 with Figo ready at 36 years of age while in front the Ibrahimovic was just 27 the secondary Striker role was rotated between krespu who was 33 Julio Cruz was 34 and oddly enough mariwaloteli who was 18 years old and honestly in that first season as much as Mourinho insisted their experience with only working their favor things didn't go so well sure domestically they dominated once again but in the Champions League with the exception of anartozish interfielded the oldest starting 11

in the whole competition and you could tell the players weren't getting any younger from Fitness issues to full-on injury plays at one point Morin was left with no center-backs available and and with this added to their dependence on ibrahimovic's goals having to rely on Balotelli as their second highest goal scorer saw inter going through the group stage with only two wins and then being defeated by reigning Champions man united in the round of 16. I wouldn't blame anyone for questioning moding with this point except for muntari his moves in the transfer market were pretty Dreadful

Adriano rampantly left the club following another mental elf crisis Quaresma was voted worst transfer of the year and manchini was already warming the bench only months after arriving and even though they would go on to break a record for most wins in a Serie A season and take a league title once again in reality just felt like one more season without any progress 12 behind the scenes molding we've been working on that famous step-by-step plan on how to make Intel an unbeatable force and as promised once they were out of the Champions League he delivered

the report went like this we have the best low block on the planet but our center-backs are slow we need a fast Center back who can carry the ball and help them press higher up the pitch the number one name on the list Ricardo Carvalho Maureen Chelsea and it would eventually ever met real it's simply one of the greatest center-backs of all time in one of moding's right-hand man however Chelsea knew how great he could be under Mourinho and they did not budge so he went with the plan B Lucio from Bayern Munich though he

could sometimes go by unnoticed he was an exceptional player a world champion with Brazil extremely reliable hard-working and even if he wasn't as technical as carvalu like moding said himself it was really really fast and an absolute bargain literally just seven million in attack things got more complex obviously moding loved ibra but the way things were set up was problematic and with Guardiola coming at him with full force in the transfer market and claiming a toe was problematic and a bad influence to the younger players moding realized the opportunity he had and just went along

trading one for the other and getting 48 million as well when asked about it is said for me this was the deal of the summer this is worth 100 million to me because trust me ETO is not worth even one Euro less than ibra and even with all that money coming in it didn't exactly splurge on a partner foreign for only 28 million the guy had been scoring a goal every 100 minutes throughout the last season it was easily one of the most underrated players in Europe and to me this was simply one of the

greatest signings of all time and finally the last note of the report as much as players like Zanetti monteri and stankovic could dominate anything physically Mourinho believed Intel needed to improve the technical quality in their Midfield to find someone who could control the tempo of the match from the back as well as someone to keep him in control on the ball the kind of player that could seemingly hold on to it forever so to fix the first problem they raided Genoa once again and brought in Thiago Mota smart with great vision he could freeze the

game at any moment it was perfect but the final piece of the puzzle only became available in the last week of the transfer markets with real going on a massive buying spree a few players were left on the sidelines waiting for someone to pick them up and among them was Wesley schneither who joined Intel for just 15 million and added that bit of magic that made it all possible add to this the departures of Maxwell to Barcelona holy Cruz and kresper were out of a contract the retirement of Luis figu and well the fact that

all players were now a year older and moringos entered had almost reached their final form in the words of the man himself they were cynic intelligent and pragmatic a team that could find a way to beat anyone in Europe that was more English promise at first he deployed them in a 4-3-1-2 which neither being put into the starting eleven before he had even attended a single training session and the result was a far nil threshing of AC Milan they looked scary but then in the Champions League despite white belief they would now perform much better

all intermanaged with three consecutive draws not even managing to beat the likes of Robin Kazan the problem was relatively obvious the information was quite simply too narrow and with a rising popularity of attacking fullbacks they were allowing the other teams far too much space on the flanks and it was right after going behind in their fourth group stage match against Dynamo Kiev that Mourinho finally gave in changing to a 433 or 441 1. bringing out the midfielder in favor of Balotelli and convincing a total drop to the flank where he would be forced to cover

a more Central defensive Pockets always waiting for the chance to go on the counter this was moaning's Eureka moment with four minutes left on the clock melee to Drew the match and in the final minute Schneider put them in front and kept him in a race for The Knockout stages following a defeat to Barcelona which greatly hurt moding's ego and a winning the final match of the group stage Intel and made it through by an inch but it was all worth it because Mourinho now knew what to do and with the market open he made

one single transfer and it was again just genius knowing Balotelli could not be relied upon neither consistently nor defensively in that Winger role he brought in goren pandev from Lazio it was a classic morning signing you could put him anywhere on the pitch and he would get the job done which was so perfect for that role exactly however this change information worked so well in the Champions League it almost ended up hurting them since it just wasn't as effective domestically in fact it got so bad at one point he only got five wins across 15

matches nearly allowing Homer to take over at the top of the table and leading to rumors that mourinho's job was in Risk can you imagine regardless he's stuck with it and eventually it clicked though to be fair it only did after Mourinho began constantly making inflammatory comments about the referees convincing the players the world was against them which only further motivated them to conquer it it seemed they just needed a little bit of luck and they could pull off the miracle instead every draw seemed like the worst case scenario but modingu only saw that as

an opportunity to prove that his teams really were the best at dealing with unfavorable scenarios the first of those facing mode English old team Chelsea in the round of 16 the champions of England including carvalu and lampardi's two failed signings and his coach Carlo ancelotti and X AC Milan player it was a challenge a serious one or at least it should have been instead it served more as their first Battle Cry beating them two to one in the first leg in Milan and then beating them in London as well with moding telling the press before

the match that he never lost at Stamford Bridge and it wouldn't be any different this time quite simply iconic following this came the most straightforward round of the tournament facing cska Moscow and smoothly making its best and with two one nil wins thanks to goldsby Wells but Milito and Schneider and here's where things got really serious the next team they would have to face would be Barcelona Mourinho and reason to despise them they were the last team who employed him before he became a coach being always on their mind referred to as simply Bobby robson's

translator and given no hopes of ever having a chance at coaching no matter how much Robson vouched for him they were also the team who allegedly robbed him and his cells inside of a spot in the Champions League final and above all they were the team with just two years prior to this match rejected him after he approached them looking to become their new manager instead signing an ex-player with no coaching experience Pep Guardiola would go on to win the champions league on his debut season while deploying the second youngest starting 11 in the competition

he was the end time Mourinho and it was time for Revenge it all started with that Infamous quote we have a dream to win the UCL for Barcelona it is not a dream it is an obsession implying they felt inferior to their rivals in Madrid with wanted so many more times than them and also implying they will do anything even cheating to win it all which was more of a stability wafer than anything else right before the match started he would tell his players there are winning teams and better teams you will play against better

teams but if you remember that you will be a winning team moding would go on to describe the first flag as a game played with a head more than defeat and that was exactly what it was with a volcano halting air travel and forcing Barcelona to travel to Milan by bus entire played smart letting Barcelona hold possession and punishing them at every minor mistake they made and of course rightfully the most cunning player on the pitch Diego Milito was the start of the night assisting two and scoring the final goal as inter one three two

one regardless this meant nothing the world was convinced Barcelona were by far the better team and they were more than expected to make the comeback which became a million times worse when 28 minutes into the second leg Thiago Mota hit bushka's in the face being sent off with a second yellow car face showed nothing but desperation after all as Mourinho would say to play for an hour with 10 players against a team like Barcelona in a stadium filled with 100 000 of their fans should be an impossible task however moding was never one to just

give up so in that exact moment he ran towards Guardiola and whispered in his ear you think this is over this is far from Over the Mind Games had begun first part of the plan blocked their game teletoe and pandav to move deeper into those half spaces than they ever had second part cage messy talzanetian cambiasu to not let go of them for one second press him so hard it will feel like torture and above all let the clock run telling the team they will have the ball much more than us but the thing is

they still can't hurt us so let them have the ball and once they think their income control with their fullbacks way too close to our box dashing to those counter attacks like your lives depend on it for your NPK will not be able to hold you off without support Barcelona averaged 73 percent possession they needed two goals to go through PK scored the opener with only 6 minutes left on the clock and then Bayan scored to put barsa in front but unfortunately for him it was offside and so a couple minutes later when the whistle

was finally heard Intel were in the final of the Champions League moding rushed to the middle of the pitch finger pointing to the sky while they strive to stop him the groundsman even turned on the sprinklers to force him out of the pitch but nothing was enough as Maureen said I have to thank them for the sprinklers the water was needed to wash the Blood Sweat and Tears my players left on the pitch this was the greatest defeat of my life now in the final there was one last challenge van Gaal one of the coaches

Mourinho had worked for one of his mentors taking charge of Bayern Munich both teams had won everything both fighting for that final trophy fighting for the travel the difference only two of bayern's Outfield players were over the age of 30 while inter presented the oldest starting 11 ever seen in a Champions League final with an average age of 31 years and 34 days and like moding it would one day claim that day it took all the old man and he won it all to nil was the final result Milito scored both and finally asserted himself

as one of the best strikers of his generation Schneider claimed one more assist in topped the shards becoming one of the main candidates to the Ballon d'Or one year after being deemed disposable by real and proven it was worth every bit as much as ibra Zanetti finally won the UCL after 17 years and those old men got to celebrate like kings one final time for the interesting Mourinho was absolute royalty for FIFA it was the best coach of the year and still to UEFA it was nothing they didn't award him anything you can make your

guess as to why that happened but above all nothing describes what made moaning special more than him getting out of his Sky right after the final and hugging matarazi on the sidewalk her knowing it was most likely off to real told him he would never forgive him for a living and it's no wonder after him it took inter 11 years to even win their next league title