Willian jose mourinho biography
- Willian started his career at Corinthians, before joining Shakhtar Donetsk in August 2007 for a fee of €14 million.
- Jose Mourinho Jose Mario dos Santos Mourinho Felix was born in Setubal, Portugal on January 26, 1963.
- Manchester United boss Jose Mourinho has prioritized reuniting with Chelsea's Brazilian midfielder Willian this summer.
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| Jose Mourinho | |
|---|---|
| Personal information | |
| Date of Birth | 26 January 1963 |
| Place of Birth | Setubal, Portugal |
| Managerial statistics | |
| Years managed | 2004-2007 2013-2015 |
| Total games | 321 |
| Wins | 204 |
| Draws | 69 |
| Losses | 48 |
Jose Mourinho born (26 January 1963) is a former Portugese footballer who had two spells as Chelsea manager. The first from 2004 to 2007, and the second from 2013 to 2015. Mourinho proved to be possibly the greatest manager in the club's history, winning three league titles, one FA Cup, and three League Cups. However, the club failed to succeed in Europe, falling at the semi-final stage three times.
Chelsea career[]
First term[]
Arriving from Porto in the summer of 2004, Mourinho, the reigning European champion manager, proved an instant success as Claudio Ranieri's replacement, declaring himself as 'a special one' in his first day at the club. Things began well on the field too, with a 1-0 win over Manchester United on the opening day of the 2004-05 season.
The team went unbeaten for the first eight games o
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Willian (footballer, born 1988)
Brazilian footballer (born 1988)
For other people, see Willian.
In this Portuguese name, the first or maternal family name is Borges and the second or paternal family name is da Silva.
Willian Borges da Silva (born 9 August 1988), known mononymously as Willian, is a Brazilian professional footballer who plays as a winger for Premier League club Fulham.
Willian started his career at Corinthians, before joining Shakhtar Donetsk in August 2007 for a fee of €14 million. In his six years at the club, he won several honours, including four Ukrainian Premier League titles and the UEFA Cup in 2009. In 2013, he briefly signed for Anzhi Makhachkala before joining Chelsea for £30 million, winning the Premier League and League Cup in his second season in England.
Willian made his debut for Brazil in 2011 and has since represented his country at the 2014 and 2018 FIFA World Cups, as well as the 2015 Copa América, the Copa América Centenario, and the 2019 Copa América, a tournament Brazil won on home soil.
Club career
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José Mourinho, Campeão
The more things change the more they stay the same: football can be oddly cyclical. This boring narrative is irrevocably attached to José Mourinho - a stigma that no amount of goals or points can seemingly shift. A decade after Mourinho first defended his style of football this perception of Chelsea endures. The Special One is methodology over philosophy, an anachronism, stylistically at odds with this fashionable requirement of modern management. Mourinho’s ruthless footballing vision lacks any sort of romanticism that the wider public pines for. In England it is better to be a gallant loser than a baleful winner.
“We all want to play great music all the time, but if that is not possible, you have to hit as many right notes as you can.” - Jose Mourinho, 2007
After the rise of tiki-taka, tactics, and subsequently the concept of a footballing philosophy, slipped into the mainstream. Thereafter it became the de rigueur thing in football: in order to be acceptable, a young manager must have a philosophy. You only need to look at the fabled “West H
José Mourinho, Campeão
The more things change the more they stay the same: football can be oddly cyclical. This boring narrative is irrevocably attached to José Mourinho - a stigma that no amount of goals or points can seemingly shift. A decade after Mourinho first defended his style of football this perception of Chelsea endures. The Special One is methodology over philosophy, an anachronism, stylistically at odds with this fashionable requirement of modern management. Mourinho’s ruthless footballing vision lacks any sort of romanticism that the wider public pines for. In England it is better to be a gallant loser than a baleful winner.
“We all want to play great music all the time, but if that is not possible, you have to hit as many right notes as you can.” - Jose Mourinho, 2007
After the rise of tiki-taka, tactics, and subsequently the concept of a footballing philosophy, slipped into the mainstream. Thereafter it became the de rigueur thing in football: in order to be acceptable, a young manager must have a philosophy. You only need to look at the fabled “West H
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