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The only way to stop Messi is to double mark him. One player to stay on him and the other to help out.

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Jose Mourinho
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: January 26
Association Football Manager
Association Football Player
Coach
Diplomat
Setubal
Jose Mourinho
José Mário dos Santos Mourinho Félix
Jose Mario dos Santos Mourinho Felix
The Special One
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The moral of the story is not to listen to those who tell you not to play the violin but stick to the tambourine.
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A great pianist doesn't run around the piano or do push ups with his fingers. To be great, he plays the piano. ...being a footballer is not about running, push-ups or physical work generally. The best way to be a great footballer is to play.
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With all the stones being thrown against me you could build a monument!
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Three years without a Premiership title? I don't think I would still be in a job.
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Everybody was waiting for Chelsea not to win every game and one day when we lose there will be a holiday in the country. But we are ready for that.
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He is the best. The best in the world, yes. Probably the best ever. I saw Maradona a couple of times. I never saw Pele. But Cristiano is amazing. This man is the best... Cristiano is a goals machine. He is an incredible player. He is like Zidane, there will never be another Ronaldo.
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Do you have a brother or cousin in Ivory Coast, because I don't have the money to bring you to Porto.
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If you're not a big club, you choose one competition and you fight in that competition and forget the others. Big clubs - we cannot do this
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Look at the way teams play against Arsenal. They don't believe they can win. They don't believe.
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If at the end of the season I'm leaving the club, you have the right to come to me and say: 'Jose, you are a liar'
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Like me or not, I am the only one who has won the world's three most important leagues. So, maybe instead of the 'Special One', people should start calling me the 'Only One'.
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I always think there's our age in ID terms but then there's our real age because for me the real age is not the age on your ID. That's just a date when you were born. The real age, the real ID is your body, your brain, your attitude.
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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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In five years I have never had a match where my team has had less possession than the opponents.
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