10 Facts you probably don't know about Pep Guardiola and Jose Mourinho
10 Facts you probably don't know about Pep Guardiola and Jose Mourinho
- When Pep was a ball-boy, he was once refused an autograph by Michel Platini. Pep had taken his poster off his wall especially to get it signed but unfortunately Michel wasn't having any of it.
- Before Jose became a famous world manager, he was a PE teacher in Lisbon. Bet the students loved it when he took netball!
- Pep is a massive art lover and spent a lot of his sabbatical after leaving Barcelona in the art galleries of the Big Apple.
- Jose can speak six different languages...Portuguese, English, Spanish, Catalan, Italian and French. Ooh la la.
- Pep will not do one-on-one interviews and will only interview for Press.
- Jose and his wife, Matilde, named both of their children after themselves. They have their son, Jose Mario Mourinho, and their daughter Matilde Mourinho.
- Pep is from the small Catalan town of Santpedor. In honour of Pep's achievements, the home-ground of the local team was given the name Camp Municipal Josep Guardiola.
- Jose's father, Jose Manuel Mourinho Felix, was a professional footballer and was capped once by Portugal in 1972.
- Before Pep moved to Germany he spent a lot of time with a German teacher in New York. He gave part of his first Bayern Munic press conference in German.
- In 2011, Jose was named Rockstar of the Year by the Spanish edition of the Rolling Stone, and even featuered on the front cover.
