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I'm not a defender of old or new football managers. I believe in good ones and bad ones, those that achieve success and those that don't.

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Jose Mourinho
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: January 26
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When I face the media, maybe I don't feel it now, here with you, because it's a different sort of interview, but when I face the media before or after the game, I feel it as part of the game.
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If a player is not performing, there are two ways of looking at it. You wait for performance to come, or maybe the moment has arrived where you have to change. I could go either way.
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