As per the latest reports in Italian media, the current AS Roma manager and coach, Jose Mourinho, is being lured by the Portuguese national team to be their manager.
Speculations surrounding their coach Fernando Santos’s sacking from his position have been crawling since Portugal’s disappointing exit from the FIFA World Cup after an upsetting defeat of 1-0 from Morocco.
Jose Mourinho to be new Portugal coach?
Amidst these, there are now rumors that the veteran manager Jose Mourinho of AS Roma is being approached to manage Portugal’s national team.
According to outlets from the Italian media, Jose Mourinho, an experienced manager who currently leads AS Roma, is being courted to manage Ronaldo’s Portugal. The reports also murmur that the tempting offer from the national team does not include Mourinho leaving his managerial position in the Italian team.
Mourinho offered managing two teams simultaneously
It is being said that the 59-year-old will get a flexible offer of managing the Portuguese team part-time. It is noteworthy that a single manager managing two teams simultaneously is a rarity in the footballing world. If Mourinho accepts the offer, it will be a surprising historical moment.
The trophy-stacking veteran manager has had a fantastic managerial career at most clubs he manages. His most recent success was at Italy’s AS Roma, where he won the UEFA Europa Conference League with the club.
He became the first-ever manager to win all three UEFA championships. The other two UEFA cups he won are the UEFA Champions League in 2003–04 and 2009–10, and the UEFA Europa League in 2002–03 and 2016–17.
This diamond-studded glittering record as a manager with multiple individual awards makes him one of the top contenders for the position of manager at the Portuguese national team.
Fernando Santos being sacked after World Cup upset
The current Portugal coach, Fernando Santos, is allegedly being sacked by their federation after the disappointing exit Portugal faced in the World Cup 2022 in Qatar due to his controversial decisions, including benching their star player and captain, Cristiano Ronaldo, in the crucial quarterfinal match.
Their 1-0 defeat against Morocco was all the more depressing because it was the last World Cup match played by the legendary five-time Ballon d’Or winner Cristiano Ronaldo, which means the end of his legendary career without ever winning a World Cup trophy.
