Portuguese veteran coach Jose Mourinho was unveiled as the brand new coach of Fenerbahçe on Sunday, tasked with breaking the membership’s league title drought since 2014, following six runner-up finishes.
“I promise you that from this moment, I belong to your family,” Mourinho instructed 1000’s of followers at Ülker Stadium.
The crowd erupted in cheers as he held up the Fenerbahçe jersey and declared, “This shirt is my skin.”
Mourinho joins the historic Istanbul membership only a week after it was narrowly overwhelmed to the Turkish Süper Lig title by archrivals Galatasaray, who’ve claimed the championship 5 instances up to now decade.
Fenerbahçe, whose followers embody Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, missed out within the title race regardless of a factors tally of 99 and dropping just one league sport all season.
After days of robust indications that Mourinho was to take cost, Fenerbahçe introduced in a social media publish early Sunday that the Portuguese supervisor was to attend a ceremony at its stadium.
Mourinho was later photographed getting off an airplane that Fenerbahçe posted with the easy message “THE SPECIAL ONE” – an outline he gave himself on arriving at Chelsea 20 years in the past, leaving Porto as a brand new Champions League winner.
Now aged 61, Mourinho ought to raise the profile and standing of a membership that by no means gained a European title and can enter the Champions League within the early qualifying rounds in July.
Mourinho has gained the Champions Leagues with Porto and Inter Milan, the Europa League – or its predecessor, the UEFA Cup – with Porto and Manchester United, and a Europa Conference League with Roma two years in the past.
He has coached groups to win eight home league titles in Portugal, England, Italy and Spain.
It’s his first job since he left Roma in January after two and a half years marked by the Europa Conference League title in 2022 and a sequence of disputes with referees.
The Portuguese has not labored outdoors the highest 5 European leagues since 2004 when he left Porto after profitable the Champions League and joined Chelsea, which was on the rise beneath then-owner Roman Abramovich.
Since then, he has additionally coached Inter Milan, Real Madrid, Manchester United and Tottenham in a profession full of trophies and off-field controversy.
It would shock few individuals if Mourinho and Fenerbahçe have been an explosive combine in a fiercely passionate soccer metropolis.
Fenerbahçe clashed with Turkish soccer authorities final season, together with by taking its group off the sphere throughout a Turkish Super Cup sport in protest.
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