On the evening of the fourth day of Blackburn's victory, Blackburn's newly built official website announced a message: "Due to physical reasons, first-team manager Souness has resigned as head coach to serve as club advisor. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 The Info club have decided to hire Jose Mourinho as head coach to guide Blackburn Rovers to League One this season and the Premier League next season. ”

This news appeared very suddenly, which surprised most people.

Not to mention that Souness has just led Blackburn Rovers to win this season's League One title five rounds ahead of schedule, according to common sense, Blackburn should let Souness continue to coach the team at this time.

And even if Blackburn wants to change the team's manager, which well-known European coach should be invited to replace Souness.

No one expected that Blackburn would have decided on a head coach at this time, and that he was an almost unknown Portuguese coach.

Jose Mourinho?

Almost all football media in the British Peninsula are quite unfamiliar with this name, the vast majority of the media have never heard of it, and only a few media outlets that take care of the Portuguese Premier League know that Mourinho is in the team.

Where the hell did this guy come from?

When they knew the name, they all went to investigate as soon as possible, and it turned out that this mysterious guy, at least his resume was not a mess.

Jose Mourinho, Portuguese professional football coach, born in 1963, has been an assistant coach at Amadora and Setúbal FC since 1990, fluent in eight Chinese, and has been the coach Bobby since 1992. Robson's translation.

In September 2000, Jose Mourinho officially became head coach, succeeding Heynckes as head coach of Portuguese giants Benfica FC, but after only nine league games in charge of Benfica, he resigned due to a feud with the new president and board of directors.

In the 11 official matches that Mourinho played as Benfica coach, he led the team to a record of 6 wins, 3 draws and 2 losses, with a winning rate of 54.55%.

It's amazing!

The head coach of the League One champions Blackburn Rovers, the 37-year-old Portuguese teenager who has only managed 11 official games, can these two words be linked together in the slightest?

What was wrong with Blackburn's young owner, Arthur Walker, to think of letting a 37-year-old stunned young man who would fall out with the club owner at the beginning of his career coach coach the team?

Could it be that Arthur just wants to watch his team succeed and then be relegated from the Premier League?

Journalists were confused, and even Blackburn fans, who had just won the title and admired Arthur, were skeptical.

"Do you need a reason to choose Mourinho?" In fact, in Arthur's mind, the best candidate for the position of head coach of Blackburn Rovers is Mourinho, the iron-blooded coach who was later known as the "madman".

Jose Mourinho's achievements need not be repeated, before Arthur's rebirth, he led four different national club teams (Porto, Chelsea, Inter Milan, Real Madrid) to 8 top-flight titles, 11 domestic cup titles, 2 UEFA Champions League titles and 1 UEFA Cup, won the best coach in the Portuguese Premier League, English Premier League, Serie A and La Liga, and was named UEFA UEFA Coach of the Year four times, and was named the best coach of the World by the International Federation of Football History and Statistics four times. Won the first FIFA Golden Ball Award for Best Coach in the World in 2010.

Mourinho opened a new school of defensive counter-attack, and while he understood the defensive counter-attack, he added too much scientific and social content to his coaching ideas, the essence of which became more and more temple-like, and his transformation of the entire academy system when he coached Inter Milan made his football theory no longer a sports category, but rose to a scientific level.

There are four key things that Arthur values about Mourinho.

The first point is that the home team is unbeaten.

Jose Mourinho has set a record of 150 league games unbeaten at home in 9 years, and this trait has a great attraction for fans to watch the game at home, after all, compared to the flashy attack, the die-hard who can watch the game at home would prefer to see the team they support win, at least not lose, and Mourinho's characteristic can directly increase home attendance and increase Blackburn's ticket revenue.

The second point is the temperament of a victor.

Mourinho is a stubborn anti-ball control activist in pursuit of victory, firmly believing that possession is a double-edged sword, from Porto to Chelsea, to Inter Milan, Real Madrid, and then back to Chelsea, Mourinho's coaching career and high ball possession, ground passing, technical football are not on the side, Mourinho's team has distinctive characteristics: tough, fast, efficient, simple, counter-attacking, direct. Moreover, it is very adventurous, and often adopts the gambling nature of the "four forwards" or even "five forwards" tactics.

Arthur does not want to build a multi-year championshipless club like Arsenal in the future, he pursues victory and championships, because only the champion can attract more pseudo-fans, and then turn these pseudo-fans into consumers who can pay real money and expand the club's influence. Mourinho has been able to turn the current Blackburn Rovers into a champions in a short period of time.

The third point is the iron will.

Mourinho believes in will and spirit football, attention to detail, strong execution, paranoid and arrogant, good at stimulating the maximum potential and immediate combat power of players, the team coached by the tactical rigorous, in terms of handling player relations, Mourinho almost never let the media catch the handle, protect his players, Mourinho is good at psychological warfare, often provoke and provoke opponents, referees.

Since seeing Blackburn's half-blue and half-white autumn coat, Arthur knows that team building cannot pursue stability, and is more inclined to pursue iron-blooded, uninhibited and arrogant, Mourinho's temperament is in line with Arthur's vision of team style building.

The fourth point is the star effect.

In later football, the only coach who can match or even surpass the influence of top stars is Mourinho, who is in the news, with his trench coat, hairstyle, language, gestures and ...... can attract the national interpretation of the world's media, and such a manager can increase Blackburn's media attention and exposure in a short period of time.

And the reason why Arthur hastily signed with Mourinho before the end of the League One is because he knows that if he doesn't start now, then at the end of the month, Mourinho will take over the coaching of the small club Liana Football Club and help the team to a historic fifth place in the league, and then in January next year, he will enter Porto and start the legend of the dragon's take-off.

Arthur did not have the confidence to compete with Porto, who were the dominant Portuguese lords, so he could only make a decisive move to sign the rising legend while Liana was still in talks with Munirio.

However, Arthur knew for these reasons, but others did not have his rebirth experience, which was naturally inexplicable, so many reporters came to Blackburn Rovers Club for interviews, wanting to get first-hand information, waiting in the press conference hall, waiting for the club to hold the first press conference of the new coach.

At three o'clock in the afternoon, Arthur and Mourinho, dressed in black suits, walked into the venue side by side, and for a while all kinds of flashing lights pointed to two mature men with very handsome appearances.

The flashing lights kept flashing, and Mourinho and Arthur, who had just taken their seats, gave in and then sat down at the same time, looking at the reporters with a calm smile on their faces.

Not to mention Mourinho's coaching ability, the reporters present felt that he and Arthur were definitely eye-catching, and they were more photogenic than the male stars of the British Peninsula.

In particular, sports media such as The Sun, which are more focused on gossip news, are in a happy mood, because the presence of Arthur and Mourinho, at least as long as there is news of these two people's photos, it can definitely increase sales by at least about 10% from female readers, who are extremely difficult to conquer.

"Jose was the manager of Benfica and has done well, which fits well with the current style of Blackburn, and I am confident that Jose can lead Blackburn to a satisfactory ......result in the Premier League next season," Arthur briefed reporters about Jose Mourinho.

Seeing Arthur personally introduce Mourinho, all the media were slightly surprised. Because this work is usually done by the club's vice-president or sporting director, Arthur's move undoubtedly shows the importance he and Blackburn place on Mourinho.

"The club has prepared a three-and-a-half-year contract for him until the end of the '04 season. José is still young, but young people deserve a chance, he has the ability and we trust him......"

After Arthur finished speaking, the press officer motioned for reporters to start asking questions, and all the questions summed up in one meaning, that is, questioning why Jose Mourinho was chosen as Blackburn's manager?

The heart is on a twenty-five-year-old young man? ”

"Mr. Arthur, why do you have so much faith in him?"

"Is there some insider telling story about Blackburn's choice of him as head coach? For example, the sponsor on the Portuguese side? ”

“……”

All kinds of questions were asked about Mourinho's qualifications to coach Blackburn, and there was no respect for Mourinho.

Mourinho's face immediately sank, and his eyes looked a little cold. When answering reporters' questions again, he first glanced at all the reporters in the venue with cold eyes before he spoke: "Before, I only worked at Benfica for two months, many people said that I was young, but I believe that age does not mean ability, I only worked for two months, but many people in Benfica trust me, why?" Because of my ability to convince them. ”

'Now Arthur has given me the opportunity to coach Blackburn Rovers and I'm grateful. I believe that by the end of next season, Blackburn will be able to win at least one trophy! ”

"Otherwise, I will resign voluntarily!"

While Mourinho was talking slowly, the reporters in the audience began to be in an uproar!

They looked at this strange face with a somewhat immature face, and felt even more incredible than when they heard it before, this young man in front of them, did he know what he had just said?

Blackburn Rovers are really good, but next season in the Premier League, relegation is what they should be aiming for.

Blackburn's mid-table finish in the Premier League next season is already a success, not to mention that Mourinho is now vowing to win a title?

How could he be so open-mouthed?

Does he have any experience in coaching a team for a full season?

How can such a young man who hasn't even managed a full season in charge of a team be the manager of an English top-flight team?

The Blackburn Rovers hierarchy must be crazy!

Arthur must be crazy!

And when these reporters were stunned, the corners of Arthur's mouth rose slightly.

"That's it...... Jose, use your unruliness to bring exposure to my Blackburn, take it with you, take it and take off! ”