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Casillas kept quiet on Mourinho feud to avoid Real Madrid ´circus´

SoccerNews in La Liga 31 Mar 2017

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Iker Casillas says he did not lash out about a deteriorating relationship with former Real Madrid coach Jose Mourinho in order to avoid “a circus” at the club.

The Porto goalkeeper was Madrid captain and a long-term regular when Mourinho arrived at the Santiago Bernabeu, but the pair fell out during their final season together in 2012-13.

However, Casillas insists he kept quiet on the matter so that it would not become an even bigger issue within the media.

“I un
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derstand that there were people who had it in for me with my issue with Mourinho,” he told Marca. “They [the fans] loved to whistle on the field.

“I kept quiet for the good of the club, so as not to be creating a circus when the situation was not good. In the end, we reached the [Copa del Rey] final and did not get the win, but I had that option [to play] at least until the end.

“If not, it would have been a circus of two people. Soon they would have had three or four more people and, in the end, it would have been, rather than Real Madrid, a huge circus.”

Mourinho won three trophies at Madrid before returning to Chelsea for a second spell and then moving on to his current post at Manchester United.

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