Wednesday 21 September 2011
Misunderstood?
Is Mourinho the victim of malicious and biased media-coverage? Or is he simply a bad-loser? First there was the Pujol slap and now there is the Tito poke. Just what is Mourinho up to?
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I think that Mourinho is an extraordinary coach, as he has great and unique ideas for his team in order to make the best score possible. However, with his recents actions and with the things he says at the press wheels that are done after the games, we can easily see that Mourinho is a really bad loser. He makes excuses that don't make sense, he allways tries to blame the players from the opposite team or even the arbitrators...
ReplyDeleteNevertheless, we can't never forget that Mourinho has allways enjoyed being the center of attention. This means that if he doesn't get the attention from his games, he needs to get it from somewhere else. So, in consequence, he has to make a enormous scene from the little he has for him to be felt as seen.
Now, there's no doubting that Mourinho is one of the most successful managers in the world today, as his achievements speak for themselves. But his biggest flaw is that simply cannot accept defeat, and has a tantrum like a four-year-old every time he does. He'll blame it on the referee, the opponents... Anyone but himself.
ReplyDeleteI believe that this is a stunt to divert attention from his rapidly declining reputation by creating a scene that will be all over the news, and everyone will be talking about that instead of his "incompetence".
I agree with both of you. I really think that Mourinho is a very good coach, and I have to recognize that. But it’s important to make a difference between being a good coach and a good person, and I think he is not perfect in any of them. The best coach, apart from making footballers play their best and win their opponents is to also, show his ability to lose, to accept that he makes mistakes and that not always it’s other people’s fault. Lately we’ve been informed about all the silly things he has made such as criticizing other coaches, or referees which do nothing but show how immature and how disrespectful he can be.
ReplyDeleteI wouldn’t recommend Mourinho to continue with these kind of things because people ,and even Real Madrid’s best fans will get fed up of him and won’t trust on him anymore. Wanting to catch others attention with this acts will take him to lose the most desirable job of a lot of men nowadays…He should take Pep Guardiola’s example of coach…
Agus Nieto
I have to say that Mourinho is, and has been, one of the most effective coaches any team has had; he has won many championships in the majority of teams he has leaded.
ReplyDeleteNevertheless, I think that mostly everybody now has a bad image of Mourinho because he is constantly putting excuses when Real Madrid doesn’t win and saying things that are totally irrelevant, fact that shows he is not able (or doesn’t want to) accept things that happen oppositely for both the institution of Real Madrid’s and Mourinho’s interests. It seems that he also likes to make up pieces of drama, for example, the famous posterior news conference to the Champions League Barça-Madrid match (in which Madrid was eliminated), where he repeatedly asked ironically: “¿Por qué?”, indicating that he didn’t understand why the referees and the media were going in favour of their everlasting rival, or the one in which he sarcastically said that Madrid would have to be careful on not descending of division.
Anyway, I think that these constant discussions about Mourinho and how he is trying to unbalance Barça with his provocations have a good reaction from Barça’s part, because they feel they want to shut him up by deploying their great football. As well, it gives the league a certain point of fun, because it seems that Mourinho plays a comical “role”.
As we can tell based on the results of the matches played by Real Madrid, there is no doubt whatsoever that Mourinho is a very efficient coach. However he does not know how to lose and that's when his childish side is shown. The thing is he doesn't know ho to win either! I mean it gets to his head when his team wins and he starts to brag about how they've won and how they're the best team ever and so.
ReplyDeleteBut to some extent I agree with Alex, it makes the league a bit more interesting.
23 September 2011 19:50
I agree with most of your previous comments, but I must say that I cannot and will never support Mourinho. How can people say he is a great coach when he is insulting other teams and underestimating others? No one is so bad mannered to poke someone in the eye, or at least no one above 5 years-old. If this is really his way of showing to the world how Real Madrid reacts to a lost match, any member of that club should be ashamed of belonging to such club. Real Madrid has always been a respected club around the entire world and this man named José Mourinho is ruining it. Just as Gerard Piqué said “Mourinho is destroying the Spanish football”.
ReplyDeleteMany people believe that this may be a strategy so that the media focuses more on his words and actions instead of foul play, but others say it’s just his style of life. Years ago, he supported Barça team and now he’s on the opposite side. No one really knows what he is up to; the only way of finding out is by letting time pass.
I actually agree with all the comments above, but would like to clarify, as Natalia said, that all Mourinho wants is to be the centre of attention of every mach, even if his own team is not playing. I agree in Mourinhho being a great coach, but I think Pep Guardiola is a better one and far more educated than the portuguese coach is.
ReplyDeleteSo I can really answer the question written down in the heading. No, what mourinho did last summer (poking in Tito Vilanova's eye) was not a misunderstood whatsoever.
Paulina Torras