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October 7, 2008
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Former Chelsea boss Jose Mourinho has admitted he considered taking over as England coach after Steve McClaren was sacked.

McClaren was sacked after England failed to qualify for Euro 2008 and was replaced by Fabio Capello.

Mourinho told Ford’s FeelFootball.com: “In a certain moment I considered being England national manager, first of all because I was in love with the football country and with England - I was also happy there - and secondly because if you have one country where the prestige of the national team manager is huge, it is England.

“But at the same time my passion for the day-by-day work, my passion to train every day, my desire to play every week and if possible more than one game a week, this is my life. That’s the life I want to have.”

The Inter Milan boss has also revealed he turned down an approach to succeed Luiz Felipe Scolari as Portugal boss this summer..

Mourinho continued: “I always had in my career project the Portuguese national team job as one of the last moments of my career but they tried to press me to do it early.

“Sometimes you have to jump out of this road you built - but they understand that I cannot do it now.

“But I want to have the experience of coaching my country one day. I would like to make my family very proud, and I’m sure one day they will be very proud when I become Portuguese national manager.

“I [prefer] club [over country] because at this moment I’m a club manager and it’s the kind of job I enjoy.

“The national team job is not the kind of job that motivates me - it’s a completely different profile.”

[Source: FeelFootball.com]


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3 Responses to “Mourinho considered managing England”

  1. Taiwo Bolaji on October 7th, 2008 9:34

    Mourinho can’t work with the national team. Cappelo is the right man for the job. It will be a mistake 2 appoint Jose as the THREE LION manager

  2. Nazir Alema on October 8th, 2008 20:15

    Mourinho is a good coach but doesn’t have the passion to coach a national team as he coaches club teams

  3. Talk & do on October 10th, 2008 17:09

    ‘Special one’ is a type dat dont keep his mouth shut and that is not good 4 a country’s reputation and his success at club sides dont assure such in a national team.he is still growing

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