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Extended Clip - Roma Coach Jose Mourinho: The Michael Corleone Of Football
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After yet another incident where Roma coach José Mourinho got sent off, this time against Monza, Nima Tavallaey and Carlo Garganese detail and analyze all the times the former Real Madrid, Inter Milan, Chelsea and Manchester United manager has gone full on Michael Corleone on people after they have insulted him.
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Mourinho: The Michael Corleone of Football
00:00:02
Speaker
Welcome to the Italian football podcast. There's only one thing to talk about here, and that is Jose Mourinho. And because I tweeted out, I tweeted this out. No one does revenge like Jose Mourinho since since maybe Michael Corleone in the final scene of Godfather One, where he gets revenge and all the five families. I mean, that is that is Jose Mourinho. I mean,
00:00:29
Speaker
Nima, you will have seen this being an Interfan, but no one does revenge.
Pre-game Tensions with Monza
00:00:34
Speaker
I'm just going to go through the revenge, two big moments of revenge that he did during and after this game against Monza. The build-up to this game against Monza was this whole kind of Mourinho versus Rafael Paladino war. Paladino being the coach of Monza.
00:00:51
Speaker
Paladino had called Mons Mourinho and his team's behaviour scandalous after the last time they played in May, just their whole kind of behaviour on the bench and their antics, which is something that we've seen multiple times by Mourinho's backroom staff. We saw it, obviously, in the Sevilla in the final, but we've seen it so
Mourinho's Sideline Antics and Send-off
00:01:09
Speaker
many times. I mean, I've lost count how many times Mourinho and his staff have been sent off in the last two years, and Mourinho, again, was sent off in this game as well. But Mourinho didn't get drawn into words before the game,
00:01:21
Speaker
and you know he was asked about it you know what paladino calling scandalous blah blah blah he didn't get into it because you know merino when he gets his revenge he waits for the right moment to get his revenge and and he did that when el shira we scored the goal i mean he was he was gesturing did two gestures towards paladino in the monsa bench one he did the
00:01:42
Speaker
He did the yap-yap gesture with his hands as if to suggest, you know, you talk too much. And then he did the crybaby gesture like with his, you know, twisting his fist, his clenched fist and rubbing it, pretend it's simulating, rubbing the eye as if you're crying, which was hilarious. That got him sent off.
Post-match Banter with Papu Gomez
00:02:06
Speaker
And then after the game, then after the game, he went after Papu Gomez. Now, Papu Gomez was banned, received a two year ban for failing a drug test, which is very, very sad, could be the end of his career. But Papu Gomez had given an interview last week in which he said, and I quote, Mourinho, I only have one memory of him, and that is winning the Europa League with Sevilla.
00:02:32
Speaker
against him. Of course, Pabu Gomez was at Sevilla last season and he was in the Sevilla team or the squad. He didn't play the final. That beat Roma on penalties in that really controversial final. So, Mourinho after the game says, I have a cough, but I won't take any syrup or any pills or else I might have trouble passing the anti-dopiate tests.
00:02:57
Speaker
So he got his revenge on Papi Gomez. I mean, never. Mourinho, is there any fun better? No, you don't go up against him verbally. I mean, the way that he destroyed, he knows exactly which buttons to press and how to do it.
Mourinho's Legendary Feuds
00:03:14
Speaker
I mean, the way that he.
00:03:16
Speaker
calling Vengar a voyeur. I mean, and a specialist in failure, specialist in failure. What's his name? Deboer, the worst manager in the history of the pregame.
00:03:32
Speaker
Well, what he did to, what he did to Conte, I've never seen Conte that agitated when Conte said that he was demented, scene island demented. And he said, basically said, I've never been, unlike you, I've never been suspended for match fixing and Conte just lost his shit and wanted to kick his ass. The Ranieri thing. The Ranieri thing was hilarious.
00:03:58
Speaker
I mean both at Roma and at Juva. There's so many things. Ranieri was great when Ranieri had a sniper at Mourinho because Mourinho said he was missing too many press conferences and media interviews. He was skipping them and Mourinho goes,
00:04:18
Speaker
I studied Italian five hours a day for many months to ensure I could communicate with the players, the media and the fans. Ranieri had been in England for five years and still struggled to say good morning and good afternoon. Who is he to tell me what to
The Ranieri Rivalry: A Comedic Tale
00:04:31
Speaker
do? And not just that, the part where he spoke about what Ranieri had criticized him for.
00:04:37
Speaker
He doesn't develop football. He only cares about titles. And Mourinho replying, saying, that's true. I do care about winning titles. And that's how I know things are going well. Maybe that's why Ranieri
00:04:52
Speaker
is 70 years old and has only won a small title in his career. But maybe he's too old to change his mind. I love how he exaggerates. I ran here, he was like 60 at the time, but he made him 70. Or when he does with Lomon, I mean, the linguistics. Pietro Lomon becomes the best one ever.
00:05:11
Speaker
I mean, one of Mourinho's tactics is he deliberately gets their name wrong. Nobody uses it because he's linguistically so talented. He is the best communicator, I think, in terms of in football management. He would be a great writer, comedy writer. He would be fantastic like writing Saturday Night Live or something like that. He is his ability to communicate. I mean, tactically, he's not the most revolutionary. But what his absolute strength is,
The Art of Mourinho's Communication
00:05:41
Speaker
is communication, winning people over, getting them to die and fight for him in war almost. And I remember the Lomonaco thing. Can you read out the Lomonaco one? This kind of sums up how good he is with words and wordplay. This was in his first season. 2008. And when he was at Inter, and Inter had just beaten Catania 2-1,
00:06:11
Speaker
and he had said something about how he could have played in goal and Inter would still have won that game and then Lomonaco who was at Catania at the time said he lacked respect, he just talked a lot and then this is before the Champions League and they go up to, I remember this so vividly, every frame of that an Italian media journalist goes up to him and says
00:06:35
Speaker
Do you have any response to the, to the, to what La Monaco's, to La Monaco's declarations?
Mourinho's Wordplay with La Monaco
00:06:41
Speaker
And Mourinho spontaneously says, Monaco, what? Because in Italian, Monaco means monk as well. So he says, what, which Monaco? And he means Munich as well. Yeah, Munich as well. So he says, Monaco, what? The, the, the Monaco from Tibet, the, the, the monk of Tibet. And the journalist says, no, Pietro La Monaco from blah, blah, blah. And he says, look, I know Bayern Munich or Bayern Monaco. I know Monaco, Monte Carlo, Grand Prix Monaco.
00:07:05
Speaker
I don't know any other. If someone in Monaco wants to use my name to gain publicity, well, they have to pay me. What example is he using? I think he's Puma or Nike or Adidas. They pay me lots of money to talk about that, to talk about them. But so I'm not going to give free publicity to someone. No, he is the best. I mean, there is... I think Pep, when he said,
00:07:31
Speaker
in here in the press room he is the best. That was the best thing that Pep ever did because he won that battle by saying that because he took it totally away from Mourinho's strong point to the pitch which is where you know Pep was stronger and he won that semi-final but yeah I mean that was
00:07:52
Speaker
Yeah, I mean, there's so many examples, but no one no one does revenge, like, like, like, starts beefs that he rarely seldom starts beefs. No, he doesn't. He doesn't. You know, with, you know, that's why I thought it was so funny when him and Ferguson, they never got one after each other like that, because there was so much respect between them. And Ferguson, he could tell he just loved him.
00:08:16
Speaker
That's one thing I respect about him. I'm like that as well. I'll be honest, I'm like that in the sense that in terms of with people, like I'm very respectful with people. I respect everyone on a human individual level. I don't care where you're from, who you are, I'll respect you. But if you disrespect me and go after me, and as is often the case with Marino, people go after him.
00:08:42
Speaker
I don't want to say completely like he doesn't do anything to bring it on, but on an individual level, he doesn't go after individuals. If you go against me, I will go after you. Don't worry about it. So yeah, I kind of respect that about Mourinho.