Mourinho will reach 100 matches in the Champions League against Manchester City

The Portuguese coach, who has won the competition twice, will become the youngest coach ever to reach this figure

José Mourinho will accumulate 100 matches in the Champions League with Real Madrid’s next scheduled European match, which will take place on Wednesday, November 21, when the white team visits Manchester City on the fifth day of play in the Group Phase. The Portuguese coach has totaled 54 wins, 25 draws, and 20 losses over the course of his 11 seasons in the Champions League, in which he earned two titles, in 2004 and 2010. Mourinho will coach his 100th game at only 49 years of age, making him the youngest coach in history to reach this figure.

Only four coaches have coached 100 games in the history of the Champions League. After the game that Real Madrid will play in Manchester, José Mourinho will join this privileged list. What is more, he will do so at the age of 49, thus becoming the youngest coach ever to do so. Up until now, Ancelotti had held this honor, having reached 100 matches at the age of 51 years two seasons ago. Wenger and Hitzfeld did so at 58, and Ferguson, at 62.

Over the course of his 11 seasons in the Champions League, Mourinho has been at the helm of four different teams. He started his career with Oporto in 2001/02, and played 17 games with the Portuguese team, with final statistics of eight wins, five ties, and four losses. It was with Oporto that he won the first of his two titles, in the 2003/04 season, beating Monaco in the final. He spent four years as the Chelsea coach, reaching the semifinals twice. He left England with a record of 16 wins, nine draws, and eight losses. From 2008 to 2010 he coached Inter in 21 Champions League games, winning the championship in the final game against Bayern 0-2.

Mourinho’s best statistics have been as the Real Madrid coach, since he has won 20 of the 28 games played. The Portuguese came to the white club in 2010 and reversed a six-year-long negative dynamic of not advancing beyond the round of sixteen. In his first two seasons, Real Madrid once again placed among the favorites to win the title, reaching the semifinals both times. 

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Real Madrid vs Manchester City

Real Madrid is already concentrated

The 21 players called up by José Mourinho left the Real Madrid Football City for the Sheraton Mirasierra hotel where they will remain until just hours before their clash with Manchester City.

The Whites are already concentrated to go up against Manchester City in their first game of the current edition of the Champions League. The 21 players called up by Whites coach José Mourinho left the Real Madrid Football City, where they finished their last training session, and headed for the Sheraton Mirasierra hotel, where they will remain until just hours before the clash.

The Whites, who trained with the ball of Europe's top competition, finished getting ready at the Real Madrid Football City for the match against Manchester City.

Real Madrid has got everything ready for today to face their début in the current edition of the Champions League against Manchester City at the Santiago Bernabéu stadium (20:45, Spanish TV Channel La 1). The eight outfield players who have played for the most minutes at the Sánchez Pizjuán stadium trained on the grass of pitch 1 at Valdebebas.

Real Madrid completed the last session before their début in the Champions League: José Mourinho divided his players into three groups. In the first group, the eight outfield players who have played for the most minutes at the Sánchez Pizjuán stadium trained at a more relaxed pace. Arbeloa, Ramos, Pepe, Marcelo, Khedira, Alonso, Ronaldo and Higuaín worked together with assistant coach Rui Faria. 

The second group, which had more players and trained at a faster pace, was made up of the rest of the outfield players that the Portuguese coach had for the session. Casillas, Adán and Jesús worked on specific aspects with the goalkeeper coach Silvino Louro.

... and who is gonna win today's match?

... and what's the score??

I say: 2 - 1

Hala Madrid!

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Mourinho extended his contract with Real Madrid until 2016

Mourinho at Real Madrid: titles and records

The manager has won La Liga and the Copa del Rey, establishing impressive records at the club and in every championship, therefore prompting his contract to be extended to 2016.

Jose Mourinho has just finished his second season at Real Madrid. Since his presentation as the team's manager on 31 May 2010, he has won the 2011 Copa del Rey and the 2012 La Liga titles - the former was the club's first in 18 years. In two years, Mourinho has established countless records at the club and in every competition.

In his first season, Mournho coached the team to Copa del Rey glory, defeating Murcia, Levante, Atletico Madrid and Sevilla before winning 1-0 against Barcelona in what was possibly the best final in the tournament's history.

The manageer won the FIFA World Coach of the Year, La Gazzeta dello Sport's Man of the Year, the IFFHS World Coach of the Year and Uefa.com's Ideal XI awards during his first season at the club.

Mourinho won La Liga in his second campaign at Real, establishing impressive new records in the championship: the team took an unprecedented 100 points; scored a record 121 goals; won 32 games; earned the most victories, netted the most strikes and took the most points on the road (16, 51, 50); had the most turnarounds (9); and defeated all of its opponents.

Jose Mourinho is already the fifth Real Madrid coach with the largest number of victories in La Liga, and the one to reach the 50 victory mark fastest, needing only 62 encounters to do so. He has also defeated all 22 teams he's faced in the championship.

Real Madrid reached the Champions League semifinals two straight years, having played them last as far back as 2002/03. During the 2011/12 campaign, Real had the best run in the history of the competition's group stage by winning every single game.

With Mourinho at the helm, the Whites have scored 322 goals in 117 official encounters, and he has become the first coach in history to win league titles in Spain, England, Italy and Portugal.

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Jose Mourinho

José Mário dos Santos Mourinho Félix

José Mário dos Santos Mourinho Félix was born in 1963 to a large middle-class family in Setúbal, Portugal.

From an early age, football was a major part of Mourinho's life. As a teenager, Mourinho travelled to attend his father's weekend matches and when his father had became a coach, Mourinho began observing training sessions and scouting opposing teams.

Mourinho is regarded by some players, coaches, and critics as one of the best football coaches of all time. Mourinho started out as a player and eventually switched to management. After working as a physical education teacher and spells working as a youth team coach, a scout, and an assistant manager in the early 1990s, he became an interpreter for Sir Bobby Robson. He worked with Robson at Sporting Lisbon and Porto in Portugal, and Barcelona in Spain. He remained at the Catalonian club after Robson's departure and worked with his successor Louis van Gaal.

He began focusing on coaching and impressed with brief but successful managerial periods at Benfica and União de Leiria, taking the latter to their highest ever league finish. He returned to Porto in early 2002 as head coach, winning the Primeira Liga, Taça de Portugal, and UEFA Cup in 2003. In the next season Mourinho guided the team to victory in the Supertaça Cândido de Oliveira, to the top of the league for a second time, and won the highest honour in European club football, the UEFA Champions League. Mourinho moved to Chelsea the following year and won the Premier League title, ending a fifty-year-old drought, and the League Cup that season. In his second year he won the Community Shield and again the Premier League. He managed the cup double in 2007, winning the FA Cup and League Cup. He often courted controversy for his outspokenness, but his victories at Chelsea and Porto established him as one of the world's top football managers. Mourinho left Chelsea early in his fourth season there allegedly after a series of disagreements with the club's chairman Roman Abramovich.

In 2008 he moved to Italy's Serie A, signing a three-year contract with Internazionale. Within three months he had won his first Italian honour, the Supercoppa Italiana, and completed the season by winning the Serie A league title. Mourinho followed the next season by winning the first treble in Italian history, the Serie A league title, Coppa Italia, and the UEFA Champions League, the first time Inter had won in forty-five years, thus becoming the third manager in football history to win two UEFA Champions League with two different teams, after Ernst Happel and Ottmar Hitzfeld. He won the first ever FIFA Ballon d'Or Best Coach Award in 2010. He then signed with Real Madrid in 2010, winning the Copa del Rey in his first season. The following year he won the La Liga and became the fourth coach, after Tomislav Ivić, Ernst Happel, and Giovanni Trapattoni, to have won league titles in at least four different countries: Portugal, England, Italy, and Spain, also becoming the first manager to win the traditional top three European championships.

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Mourinho: First coach to win the league title in Spain, Italy and England

Mourinho is the fourth manager to win four different league championships in Europe and the fifth in the world to win leagues in at least four different countries

Jose Mourinho is the first Portuguese coach to win La Liga, the fourth manager to win four different league championships in Europe, and the fifth in the world to win league tournaments in at least four different countries.

"I had several objectives when I started training," said Mourinho upon arriving in Madrid close to two years ago, "I wanted to win the Champions League with three different clubs. Ernst Happel, Ottmat Hitzfeld and I have won the title with two different teams. Happel has passed away and Hitzfeld will retire soon, but I still have many years ahead of me. I also want to be the first to win the three main league championships in the world: La Liga, the Premier League and the Serie A. Fabio Capello has won in Italy and Spain, Ancelotti in England and Italy, and I've won in England and Italy. Capello won't be able to do so unless he goes back to club coaching, which he says he won't do. I guess it's up to Carlo and I, and I don't know if it is also one of Carlo's objectives. I want all three."

Well, he's managed to do this last thing, and the above words prove just how wimportant it was for him to win La Liga.

Mourinho is the second coach to win the league title with Real Madrid in his second full campaign on the team. He was preceded by Lippo Hertzka, who did so in 1932 without losing a single match.

Mourinho is, with Ernst Happel (who won in the Netherlands, Belgium, Germany and Austria) and Trapattoni (Italy, Germany, Portugal, Austria), the third coach with four different league titles. Only Bela Guttman (Hungary, Italy, Brazil, Portugal, Uruguay) and Tomislav Ivic (Yugoslavia, Netherlands, Belgium, Greece, Portugal, France) have won in more countries.

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