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Mourinho prompts Fenerbahce to accept gamesmanship (1: 13)
Jose Mourinho desires his Fenerbahce side to simulate the feigning injury and time squandering he declares their Turkish league challengers utilize. (1: 13)
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Adriana Garcia
Aug 19, 2024, 05: 14 AM ET
Fenerbahce coach José Mourinho identified himself as “the foreign one” on Saturday when resolving his requirement to adjust to Turkish football.
The Portuguese supervisor notoriously explained himself as “a unique one” throughout his veryfirst spell at Chelsea before deciding to be understood as “the skilled one” while at Tottenham.
Asked about Turkish football after his group’s 2-2 Super Lig draw at Goztepe, Mourinho stated: “The enthusiasm, the love, the interest matches with my enthusiasm with football, completely. Then there are other things that are out of my control, [they] are cultural. It looks like it’s for me to adjust and not vice versa. I am the one that gottenhere, I am the foreign one. I’m not going to modification the state of things. I requirement to adjust… I am not a magician, I am experienced.”
Mourinho, 61, took on the Fenerbahce task this summertime, 6 months after being sacked by Roma.
It is Mourinho’s initially experience exterior of the leading 5 European leagues giventhat 2004, when he left FC Porto after winning the Champions League and signingupwith Chelsea.
Since then he has likewise coached Inter Milan, Real Madrid, Manchester United and Tottenham in a profession filled with prizes and off-field debate.
Mourinho has set his sights on ending his club’s 10-year Super Lig title dryspell.
The draw with Goztepe followed their midweek removal from Champions League certifying aga