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Soccer: Mourinho expects to take up coaching job in Spain or Italy
Thu. March 06, 2008 08:04 am.- By Bonny Apunyu. -
(SomaliNet) Before returning to the English Premier League, Jose Mourinho, the former Chelsea manager expects to take up a coaching job in either Spain or Italy next year.
Mour has been out of work since leaving Stamford Bridge in September, but has been linked with several top European clubs - including Barcelona - and is preparing for a return to the top.
"For the time being I am studying, but next year... Italy or Spain," Mourinho said in an interview with Gazzetta dello Sport.
"But then I would like to return to England and end my career as the national coach of Portugal."
The 45-year-old has nothing definite in place as yet and will only agree to join a club which fully supports his vision.
"(I will choose) whoever comes to me with a firm offer, (but) I would only go to a club that believes in my project, who believes I am the ideal man," he said.
"I am free, I don't have pre-contracts or a 'gentlemen's agreement'.
"I want to coach, I am working with a friend of mine on a computer programme that compiles my personal archive, player cards, notes on rivals, in preparation (for a return to coaching)."
Mourinho has followed a similar schedule to when he was a coach in order to stay in touch with the game during his spell away from top-level football.
"I train 20 minutes a day, running and abdominal work - no more than that," he said. "And I pass the time with my family.
"The only difference: instead of spending my weekend with the team, I watch the games on television. Italy, Spain, England, Portugal... I watch them all."
Despite his wish to return to coaching soon, Mourinho insists he is enjoying his sabbatical.
"Setubal (Mourinho's home city in Portugal) is the only city where I live today, because it is mine and all I know," he said.
"I take my kids to school every morning, I go on holiday at Christmas, I celebrate birthdays at home. I travel, I recover lost time."
Mourinho, who won the Premier League twice with Chelsea, spoke of England as a second home and praised the Football Association for appointing Italian Fabio Capello as manager.
The Portuguese ruled himself out of the running for the England coaching job after early discussions with FA chief executive Brian Barwick, and Capello was appointed in the role in December.
"If one day I'm ever president, which will never happen, I would immediately choose Capello as coach," Mourinho said.
"I like him even as a person. I will support him because England is my second nation, I defend the Premiership and the spirit in which football is experienced there."
Meanwhile, Mourinho was impressed with the midweek feat of former rivals Arsenal - who ousted European champions AC Milan to reach the quarter-finals of the Champions League - but claims Gunners boss Arsene Wenger has it relatively easy at the Emirates Stadium.
"Arsenal is a unique team, where the coach has not won for many years but remains an idol, where there's no pressure," Mourinho said.
"It's an ideal situation.
"But don't tell me that he (Wenger) makes youngsters become stars, what he does is get young starlets and polishes them, which is different.
"He has time to work in peace and obtain results."-Eurosport
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