The public either loves him or hates him, but the players adore him. Jose Mourinho is a great tactician, but even more than that – a great psychologist. After all, in a lengthy interview with Forbes, he himself admits: psychology is the most important thing in the coaching job.”The most important thing is that people follow you, and in order for them to follow you, they have to believe in you. In order to believe in you, you have to feel empathy, to be honest with people, to be responsible towards them and not to disappoint them. You have to be with them all the time”, says the Roma coach.Wed 03:30: (2.09) Cordoba Santiago (3.35) San Lorenzo (3.80)He also spoke about how he learned such an approach…“I learned a lot about coaching before I became a coach. At university, I had a professor who always told me: a coach who only knows football, knows nothing about football. It is essential that you get to know the human being. I am still guided by those words today. Footballers are not just footballers. These are people who play football. And that’s why you have to deal with people.”Of course, not all people are the same, and knowing how to approach everyone is the ability that makes Mourinho great.”It’s like a la carte restaurants, as the French would say. As a dish, you must not look at the players as if they are all the same. They are different.”5 years ago, José Mourinho said:• Pogba is a virus, not a team player.• Martial is lazy and needs to leave the club.• Rashford can’t be Man United’s main striker.• Luke Shaw doesn’t use his head.He was crucified for speaking the truth.Mourinho always wins. pic.twitter.com/6bRMlOrzIO— FootballFunnys (@FootballFunnnys) June 20, 2022 In the end, the risk remains and the pressure that goes with it, but Mourinho did not face such a problem for a long time.”I have a healthy relationship with stress. It’s not good when you don’t feel it at all, but it’s also not good to feel it too deeply… Some other things are always more important to me than that pressure: our identity, how we feel, what we think.”And how long can you go on like that?”The key is to never be satisfied, to always want more. If you won a medal you want more, if you scored a goal, you want again, if you made money you want more. More of everything. Everything goes around in circles. It never stops. That feeling has nothing to do with age. It is a matter of personality”, concludes Mourinho.
