He remained in the Catalonian club after Robson’s departure and worked with the successor, Louis van Gaal. in 2004 Mourinho guided the team to the top of the league for a second time and won the highest honour in European club football, the UEFA Champions League. Mourinho wanted to follow in the footsteps of his father by becoming a footballer and so he joined the Belenenses youth team. Graduating to the senior level, he played at Rio Ave (where his father was coach), Belenenses, and Sesimbra. His mother enrolled him in a business school, Mourinho dropped out on his first day, deciding he would rather focus on sport, and chose to attend the Instituto Superior de Educação Física (ISEF), Technical University of Lisbon, to study sports science. After leaving his job as a school coach, Mourinho looked for paths into professional management in his hometown and became youth team coach at Vitória de Setúbal in the early 1990s. Mourinho and his family moved to Barcelona and he gradually became a prominent figure of Barcelona’s staff by translating at press conferences, planning practice sessions, and helping players through tactical advice and analyses of the opposition.

José Mário dos Santos Félix Mourinho (Portuguese pronunciation: ; born 26 January 1963 in Setúbal) is a Portuguese football manager and the current manager of Real Madrid. His first honour with the team was winning the 2011 Copa del Rey Final, Real Madrid’s first since 1993. His mother was a primary school teacher from an affluent background; her uncle funded the construction of the Vitória de Setúbal football stadium. His mother had different ideas altogether and enrolled him in a business school. He began working with Robson’s successor, Louis van Gaal, and he learnt much from the Dutchman’s conscientious style. Both assistant and head coach combined their studious approach to the game and Barcelona won La Liga twice in van Gaal’s first two years as coach.