"I want to close my career in England "

José Mourinho open-heart surgery on France Football (the headline, 'Thank God they are not modest'): "I'm fine in Madrid, but my size is natural". The season of triple Inter: "Inter was a team of veterans. In Barcelona wanted to win, we gave the show the first leg"

PARIS - In a long interview that appears today in the magazine France Football, with the title 'I thank God for not being modest', José Mourinho retraces down in detail the stages of his career, from Porto to Chelsea from Inter to Real, arguing among alia, that his "natural habitat is English football and is in England that" it is to conclude "his career. Now, however, could not be "happier" than it is to reality, "given the size of this club, and the importance of love that gives rise to the challenge" that awaits him.

And businesses in Milan, Mourinho said that on his arrival in Italy he thought, "to build a team with Inter to two times. A to win the championship and another to try to win the Champions League". In the first case, "I knew - he explains - we were the best team in the league. And when you're the best team you have to say I win. There are other possibilities. Instead, in the Champions League, Inter 2009-2010 was not the better team when compared to Real in Barcelona, Bayern Munich, Manchester, Chelsea, all teams that could win the title. At the start we could only say, 'let's try to win it'. Little by little, we turned our discussion to 'win the'. And we won".

While the Champions League with Porto won was a surprise because his was a young team, "With the Inter - Mourinho says - it was just the opposite,
was the team of veterans. There were players that if they had not won the cup there would not have won more! That is, in short, let's say in quotes, because they can still win this year or next year! But if you take Zanetti, 37, Materazzi, 37, Cordoba, 34, Toldo, 38, Samuel, was probably their last chance. I am proud to have achieved that dream".

France Football that the journalist asks him whether, from a point of view "aesthetic", the semi-final second leg against Barcelona was a "good publicity", Mourinho replied: "Yes, it was a fantastic spectacle". He adds: "It was not our fault. I decided to win. Do you understand? I was going to win! The show we had given in Milan, we won the first leg 3-1, we would have been able to make four, and we went to Barcelona with that advantage. There we started and we were ready to play, but after fifteen minutes, we stood at 10. And at that point, or do the fool and you take four or five, or react to sample and characterize it. Knowing that if we reach the final, we would have won. It was a great show of tactics".

Finally, beloved by his players, remembers one in particular which was not easy at first, Nicolas Burdisso, "At Inter, when I arrived, I told him it was better to go that way, there would be room for him. I wanted to sell it to invest on other players. I had planned its sale and, ultimately, proved among the players more involved in my project ever encountered in my career. Burdisso I said, 'I'll show' I can play. I told 'OK, let's see, let us see. I do not want today, but maybe tomorrow will be' another day. And today, you know what I appreciate that. He also knows that I would be happy to work with him again because he is a man and a player fantastic".