Mourinho does not forget Real Madrid and keeps a good memory of the white team. The coach, now without a team after being dismissed from Tottenham yesterday, has published a photo in an affectionate tone of a memory that he lived as coach of Real Madrid. In the snapshot you can see how the players of the white team kept him after the achievement of the Copa del Rey in 2011. curiously today is the tenth anniversary of that final in which Real Madrid beat Guardiola's Barcelona 1-0, with a goal from Cristiano Ronaldo in extra time.
Mourinho does it a day after the words of affection that his former president Florentino Pérez dedicated to him, in the program The Chiringuito de Jugones. “It raised competitiveness in the three years it was. And since 2011 we have reached nine out of eleven semifinals in the Champions League. That gene that put us in I will always thank him. Before they eliminated us in the second round, “said the Merengue president, praising the work of the Portuguese coach at the head of the white team.
That Cup marked a before and after in Real Madrid. It came at a time when Guardiola's Barcelona was devastating where he passed and thus broke a streak of 18 years without winning the national competition. In the three years he was in charge of Real Madrid, Mourinho won a League and a Super Cup, in addition to the previously mentioned Cup. In Champions he managed to reach the semifinals in all three seasons.