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Without emotional control you cannot play, influence you cannot react. You have to know what you have to do and not react. You have to be cool.

Jose Mourinho

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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
Emotional
Influence
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Cannot
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React
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The best way to stop Messi is when you play with 11 men and then you can double mark him, one player to stay on him and the other to help out. If it is 11 against 10 then you have almost no chance of stopping him.
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Look at my haircut. I am ready for the war. The objective is to win the Premiershp. I don't want to dominate, to finish without defeat, record points or goals or consecutive wins. The Premiership is so difficult you cannot be focused on that. I just think about winning.
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