Roma’s coach Jose Mourinho has revealed in an interview that he will miss the match day routine if he decides to end his illustrious coaching career. However, he hopes he can be at the dugout for a very long time.

Jose Mourinho has been coaching at the highest level since 2000 when he was appointed the manager of Benfica to replace his Boss Jupp Heynckes after the fourth week of the Primeira Liga. the Portuguese have previous hints he would retire when he turns 60 or 65. Mourinho has two years remaining on his contract at Roma.

What did Mourinho say?

In an interview with L’Osservatore Romano, per Football Italia, Mourinho said:

“On the way to a match, I mean leaving the hotel, getting off the bus, arriving at the stadium, the walk to the dressing room, the walk from the dressing room to the pitch before the start of the match, there is a lot of spirituality in all of this,”

“It is never a routine, no matter how many times you play in the same stadium, and you always do the same route, it is a moment that has something that you can’t see, but that you can feel a lot. I think it is of enormous beauty and I think that the day I stop coaching, which I hope will not be soon, will be perhaps the thing that I will miss the most.

“To feel this dimension that takes me in directions that I have never shared with anyone, and that today perhaps I share for the first time. Walking towards the game and talking to Him [God].”

Managerial Statistics

Team	From	To	Record
			P		W	D		L		GF	GA	GD		Win %
Benfica	20 September 2000	5 December 2000	11		6	3		2		15	9	+6		54.55
União de Leiria	1 July 2001	23 January 2002	20		9	7		4		34	20	+14		45.00
Porto	23 January 2002	2 June 2004	127		91	21		15		253	96	+157		71.65
Chelsea	2 June 2004	20 September 2007	185		124	40		21		330	119	+211		67.03
Inter Milan	2 June 2008	28 May 2010	108		67	26		15		185	94	+91		62.04
Real Madrid	31 May 2010	1 June 2013	178		128	28		22		475	168	+307		71.91
Chelsea	3 June 2013	17 December 2015	136		80	29		27		245	120	+125		58.82
Machester United	27 May 2016	18 December 2018	144		84	32		28		242	120	+122		58.33
Tottenham	20 November 2019	19 April 2021	86		44	19		23		166	103	+63		51.16
Roma	1 July 2021	Present	43		24	8		11		78	51	+27		55.81
Total				1,038			657		213	168	2,023	900	+1123		63.29