Mourinho: Samma sak att leda Microsoft som Terry
Det var kommentarerna om Friskgate mediedrevet slogs om. Men José Mourinhos framträdande i Israel handlade om annat.
I sin föreläsning för tränare i Tel Aviv, som även journalister närvarande vid, sade Chelseas manager bland annat följande (undertecknad har låtit det vara oöversatt).
Om sammanhållning (visar en bild på sig själv och Lampard efter ligacupfinalen):
"This looks like a hug but it's more than a hug, it's not a simple hug. It's a hug after a cup final, the first cup for these players, a hug with one of the best players in the world. This is a hug of 'We did it!' a hug that shows we trust each other. Without words he's saying to me thanks, I'm saying to him thanks. This is a hug that we repeat player after player because we are a family and when you induct enthusiasm and co-operation, results come faster and bigger."
Om träning:
"A great pianist doesn't run around the piano or do push-ups with the tips of his fingers. To be great, he plays the piano.He plays all his life and to be a great footballer it's not about running, doing push-ups or physical work. The best way to become a great player is to play football."
Om tränarrollen:
"Having said that, a good manager must know much more than football. He has to be a leader of men and a coherent leader. A good leader must make all his men feel big, not small. There's not much difference between being a director of a big company and a football manager. Being a manager is about human resources and there's no difference between managing Microsoft and John Terry."
Om sig själv som tränare:
"I read that players become better when they work with me, but it's not true. They are better because they work as a team and the whole is more than the sum of its parts. Success against all odds is the history of my life and the most important part of success is building a team. The club is above every individual. Joe Cole is a good example. He has learnt to play for the team rather than as an individual. The most important star is the team. If you can't communicate your ambition to your players, you cannot bring your philosophy to them. We have players from 13 countries at Chelsea, many cultures, many languages, but we have a special communication through football."
Om sig själv:
"I won't change my personality and I won't change my principles. I believe that I do things in the correct way for a modern manager in a modern society. The picture people have of me is of an arrogant and tough man which I can accept, but people who work with me know that I'm a defender of team-work. I believe I am a good person. I never like to fight, that's the wrong image, but I don't run away from problems, especially when I believe in what I'm doing. I'm a man of beliefs and if I believe that I have the truth in my hands then I don't run away from a fight. I have success with the way I organise my life. I don't like to say that I'm a man with two faces, but Jose Mourinho the manager and the man are very different. It's important to separate the man and the manager and I do that very easily."
Om Chelsea och pengarna:
"I'm connected to very a special financial administration, this is true, but before I arrived the previous people at the club had exactly the same administration and they did not succeed. The finance is not the most important factor. It's a big help but it's more about creating a squad, creating a team. It's the biggest lie in football to say that managers need time to have success, because it's a lie we make to protect ourselves. We don't need a lot of time. If from the first day you're working with the right principles you don't need time."
Om fredsbesöket:
"This is my first time in Israel and I have found it a beautiful and spiritual place. Sometimes in football we use the vocabulary of combat to describe events on the pitch. We talk of heroes, bravery, battles or fights. But it is only when you come to a place like Israel, where these words have a true, and sometimes terrible meaning, that it humbles all of us into realising the inappropriateness of this language. Bravery is trying to bring peace between communities whose relationship is fragile. So all of you here are the brave ones, not me. This building process has to start with the children. If this can be achieved through sport then that is wonderful."
Fotnot. Citat hämtade från London Evening Standard och Daily Telegraph
