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Being Portuguese means pride,

but also means responsibility.

I feel proud of what we were before,

this little corner in the end of Europe,

navigators discovering new places.

And I feel responsibility because I am one of the faces of our country.

Porto are the Champions League winners.

I'm not an ambassador,

but I am.

I am a navigator, centuries later,

fighting for life, fighting for career, with talent and courage.

I want more titles. I want more.

As a coach coming from nowhere,

I knew I had to win the Champions League with Porto,

then conquer England, Europe,

and then take on the world.

And I never had a moment of doubt. Why should? Why?

Tell me why.

Well, what a pulsating atmosphere

around Anfield here.

I think Mourinho knows his team are in for a battle.

Chelsea not as watertight as usual at the start of this season.

Possibly conceding one or two more goals

than certainly they did when they won the title.

First season, we won the Premier League. Second season, we won the Premier League.

Third season, we won FA Cup, Carling Cup.

The fourth season, everything changed.

A lot of stories between the owner, Roman Abramovich,

and manager José Mourinho.

No smoke without fire, perhaps. We'll see.

Roman showed over his years at Chelsea

that he was very ruthless in relation to the results.

Roman was never easy to deal with,

but José handled him very well till the last, uh, year.

There has been rumors that Mr. Abramovich wasn't happy

with the style Chelsea have been playing in lately.

He'd like them to be a bit more expansive, more creative.

Things were changing very quickly, for sure.

There was more direct contact with Roman.

He would dip his toe in at the training ground,

whereas the first two years, we kind of had no involvement with him.

Abramovich, incredible passion for football,

but knowing nothing about the situation.

Roman and him was...

was having a bit of a battle regarding transfer market,

players that he didn't want or José didn't want to sign.

And that led to rupture.

£30 million.

Shevchenko was the most expensive star Mourinho bought.

Ironically, a player he plainly did not want.

Shevchenko was on the table because of connections with the boss,

connections with agents.

And I didn't want to sign him.

But I never told him no, so he's also my responsibility.

Do you want to know the player I wanted?

Eto'o.

You could sense a change in terms of feeling around the club

to do with the politics changing.

It felt like, from José being, like, this... the leader of this gang,

now other people were having conversations.

In my work, the triangle,

José, Peter Kenyon, Roman,

was invaded by strangers.

In the beginning, uh, you play at Stamford Bridge,

you look to the box,

Roman, his wife,

with one or two persons of his confidence.

A few seasons later,

former players, agents.

These kind of people, they know

where the money is.

Here come Liverpool with Gerrard. Good ball for Torres.

Now it's arriving. Torres with a debut goal at Anfield!

Chelsea are 1-0 down for the fourth time in a row this season.

The thing is, once you've won, you never wanna lose.

So there's an ongoing, continual pressure to do better.

That in itself brings stress points to it.

I think Roman changed.

For example, one day, Peter come to me quite embarrassed,

and he told me, "José, I have to tell you something."

"The boss is in Sardinia

with his boats and the people that work in his boats."

"They play football against guys from the hotel,

and they are losing."

"Can you go there to win a game for him?"

I told, "No, Peter. I have training today."

"I have to prepare for tomorrow. I cannot go."

And he was not happy with that.

José looks like he's had a trip to the hairdresser

since we last saw him.

And Roman Abramovich is here as well.

Football is changing ever so quickly.

And the power of owners, the expectations of owners,

the way they invest in a club to get return,

and the way they perceive their assets

collides into how José perceives football success.

Barry. In the back of the net!

It's Zat Knight on his debut.

It was difficult

because we saw this as not just a period of José,

we saw it as a period of laying the foundations

for the future success for the owner, the club,

the big picture of football,

where it was going, and how we were part of it.

And José didn't want to be part of that.

It's Ashley Young. And it's deflected home as well!

At 2-0, Aston Villa surely now have the points.

The problem is not the game. The problem is lots of people

that don't care with the game

getting into that space.

Chairman's had enough.

That's it. It's a big, big day.

Maybe a turning-point day.

He's a really bad loser. He hates that.

The day after we lost,

you... you knew that he's not happy about that.

Oof.

A losing José?

I don't think you wanna see him lose.

I remember us losing a couple of games,

and then I was on the bus, and someone's phone ringing.

And honestly, he jumped up out of his seat,

and it was like, shit, whose phone is that?

I was always sitting in the front, so he flew past me.

And I'm like, "Oh God."

And then he... then he goes like, "Are you happy we lost?"

Then everybody goes like...

When those cracks become visible to us as players,

it has a clear effect.

And it was bad.

The equilibrium had been broken.

Rosenborg shouldn't present too much of a problem to Mourinho's side.

Edge of the Chelsea box, here.

Skjelbred making his run now, and he threw himself at it,

but he didn't need to.

Against all the odds,

it's Rosenborg here who've taken the league.

We had some bad performances, bad results.

It was weird to us, losing football matches.

He was not happy. That was clear.

It was, um, difficult.

A Mourinho-style hairdryer treatment is on the way

for one or two of these Chelsea players.

That's a great ball. Shevchenko's header

finds the net!

One apiece.

Thirty seconds of stoppage time.

Only the referee knows exactly how much time is left.

Boos around Stamford Bridge tell the story.

Chelsea have dropped two points here against the weakest team in the group.

It was egg on face for Mourinho,

not to mention the grim face in Roman Abramovich's private box.

It's very frustrating.

When you play like this and you don't score goals,

every mistake you make, you are punished.

They called him the Special One.

But after three seasons,

it seems José Mourinho was no longer special enough.

If you've just come in, Mourinho sacked.

We're gonna get a lot more reaction to this huge story.

Club directors and chief executive Peter Kenyon

were called to an emergency meeting at Stamford Bridge late last night.

And so began the speculation of whether he'd walked or was pushed.

They've treated him appallingly. Got rid of him for no reason at all.

- You can't replace him. - Bring back the Special One

It's a disappointment.

He was terrific for the football and terrific for Chelsea.

I remember him coming to the dressing room.

And he said to me that he'd been sacked.

I, I... I couldn't... couldn't think about how much this man had helped my career,

how much I loved working with him.

There were tears,

which is not normal in a dressing room when a manager leaves.

You've got grown men, tears running down their face,

not really understanding why.

Even still today, I'm like...

..."That's my fault."

When we drew the Champions League game, it was my man scored.

If I didn't let that person score,

would he have lasted another couple of years?

I still feel kind of responsible for that, if that makes sense as well.

Some players would've given anything for him. I was that player.

It's disappointing how it ended, if I'm honest.

I absolutely loved him and adored him and was more upset than anybody.

He had a... a magical spell over us.

He was the guy who believed in me.

He was the guy who kept me standing

when... when I had a lot of adversity.

But if there's one thing that I understood that day...

the owner is always right.

When you give everything, you expect everything.

But the reality is that football doesn't have a big memory.

What for other guys would be an amazing job,

for me is always not good enough.

And I think that's not fair.

It hurts. But that's football.

Is it not just a curse of your own early success?

But that shouldn't be a curse.

A curse is people without success.

That's a curse. Success shouldn't be a curse.

You know, I arrive where I arrive

by myself,

being absolutely genuine.

I felt that I was popular with the people,

not as popular with the ownership.

I don't go for dinners. I don't do PR.

I am who I am. I live my life the way I live.

And many, many times,

I... I paid for that.

I mean, I grew up a player's son,

but I still think I don't belong to the tribe.

I was different.

As a kid, my father used me a lot as a ball boy,

but I was not a ball boy.

I was watching matches, and I was giving him information.

I was giving him tips.

I was in dressing rooms. I listened to team talks.

I traveled with players.

I jumped of happiness with them. I cried of sadness with them.

But I was not one of them.

I was always outside.

And I always felt that boy is Mourinho's son.

And when I go to professional football,

I still was Mourinho's son.

I was so proud to be Mourinho's son. I'm still is, of course.

But... it is heavy.

I think he is the opposite of me in terms of, uh,

everybody loved him.

Everybody loved him.

Because the man he was, because the person he...

the person he... he was.

My father was really a phenomenal human being.

I'm not even close to him.

My experience helping my dad in his career

showed me exactly what football can be.

I learned that it doesn't matter about the past.

Results make the decision.

If the results are good, you are not going to be sacked.

If the results are bad, you are going to be sacked.

I remember Christmas Day.

Telephone rang, and my dad sacked.

A few months before,

he took the little team to the Portuguese Cup final,

which was historical.

A few months later on Christmas Day,

he was sacked.

Anyone to blame? Yeah, the idiot of the president.

You remember how that affected him?

He was tremendously good hiding his emotions.

But that told me,

if I go in this direction and I want to become a coach,

it can happen.

After Chelsea, what are the opportunities in front of you?

I don't remember. But honestly,

uh, I had...

I had some contacts with Barcelona, yeah.

I had some contacts with Barcelona. I had a couple of meetings.

I gave them my view

of what their situation was at every level,

that I knew, of course, well from my time in the club.

At Barcelona,

I was very, very lucky to be an assistant coach

with the best players in the world.

And best players in the world, they demand quality work.

For a young guy, it's a big challenge.

I was working a lot for them, but I was also getting a lot from them.

You learn with their behavior and the style of play.

And at Barcelona, the style of football was everything.

They moved the ball so well. Beautiful club.

Beautiful club.

Back then, I was working with Mr. Robson.

José was a good-looking chap.

Very shy, a bit nervous, perhaps.

At the same time, he had an air of confidence about him.

Maybe we have to change some.

We probably have to change...

He had a very small, minor coaching qualification.

But he was bright, and he stood beside me.

Very often behind me, the best-paid interpreter in the world.

I remember saying, "I want you to tell me exactly what everybody is saying."

It's a big bullshit. The translator job is a big bullshit.

- Go on, tell me. - It's a big bullshit.

I was goalkeeper coach.

I was the analyst. I was the scout.

Because I studied sports science in university,

I could even help in the gym.

I was doing everything for the boss.

- Go! - Everything for the team.

If you speak English and nobody else does, that doesn't mean you are a translator.

I have worked hard.

It means you are academically at a superior level.

But I was not a translator.

I was Mr. Bobby Robson's assistant coach.

We worked together for one season.

Then the next season come Mr. Van Gaal.

I was the successor of, uh, Mr. Bobby... of Sir Bobby Robson.

And I said to José, "Maybe you can proceed as my assistant."

It was a big gamble because I don't know him.

You have to show everyone you are good enough to work at that level.

I had Ronaldo, Stoichkov, Pep.

I had Figo.

He had very good relationship with the players.

One of his talents was to analyze the other teams.

He was very precise, very professional.

And, uh, I think he had, like, a... a talent for that.

We have found José Mourinho,

assistant and, in this case, spy for Van Gaal.

Louis Van Gaal always has his notebook on the bench,

but I don't see you with a spy pad.

Do you keep it all in your head or...

He started scouting and analyzing

like a coach, you know, for the team.

I'm going to start today.

But I have to note a few things down.

His career starts in that moment.

I had situations of being in Valencia,

watching the opponent of the next week.

I finished the match, drive to Barcelona,

arriving at the Camp Nou

just five minutes before the warm-up.

Then after the game,

I go home and finish the report of the opposition for the next week

until 2:00, 3:00 a.m.

The next morning, training session.

And then every week, repeating and repeating and repeating.

When I see assistants that say they are tired with their work,

I tell them, "Fuck off, man."

"You don't know what is to be tired of being an assistant."

In that season, in three months,

my wife's mother passed away,

my sister passed away,

and my daughter was born.

It was an incredibly hard period,

but I was doing absolutely everything.

I was doing everything to deserve to be at that level

under a difficult situation.

This was my life, to fight for my career.

But a young guy, uh, Portuguese, coming from abroad,

without a name as a big player before, you have to prove.

Today, tomorrow, and always with Barça in my heart.

Mourinho's departure signals the end of an era.

Let's look at the bookies' odds as to where they think he's gonna go next.

After Chelsea, I remember that, uh, José got approached by a few clubs.

Inter came in, Real Madrid came in, and Barcelona came in.

I hope I'm not saying anything disruptive here.

Rijkaard is leaving Barcelona after five years.

He won the Champions League

and the Primera Liga title two years ago, but nothing since.

José was going to Barcelona.

I think there was talk of, um, it will be him or Pep Guardiola.

The favorite for the fans is Mourinho.

Barcelona fans feel they need someone who can impose on the dressing room,

someone who can control a dressing room of stars.

How much did you want that job

so you could go back all those years later?

As much as I wanted, uh, Inter job.

I wanted a... a top job,

and... nothing more than that.

Former Barça captain Pep Guardiola will take over

as the coach of the team.

I can't deny I'm here

because of what I achieved as a footballer.

Otherwise, they wouldn't have dreamt of hiring a coach

who had only worked in the third division.

I understand the doubts you may have.

My next step must be another country.

I will study another language because I want to learn one more.

Is the new language you're gonna learn Italian?

I'm ready for... for every country, for every project.

I just hope the next one, I'm surrounded by...

by love.

I was impressed by Mourinho.

The public loved him so much.

I thought I absolutely have to get this guy...

...because he's a phenomenon.

José Mourinho is back in business.

The Portuguese coach signed a contract valid for three years with Inter Milan.

The main objective this season, in addition to the championship,

is obviously to win the Champions League.

As we entered, fans stopped us.

They told us, tell José Mourinho that we want to win the Champions League.

He's welcome if he wins the Champions League.

Champions League, I think it's everyone's dream.

Do you have any plans

to go and get Chelsea players?

Why are you talking about Chelsea players?

It's a sneaky way of asking the same question.

Okay.

Okay, okay, okay.

But I'm not a fuckwit.

He impressed everyone

because he arrived and replied in perfect Italian.

He knew how to make the public love him immediately from the first interview.

The beginning was difficult.

The team had very old people

with so many players above their thirties

that had very, very good contracts.

I was, uh, thinking to retire,

but then I hear that, uh, José was coming.

So I decided to continue one more year because I wanted to work with him.

At the first conference,

as soon as he arrived in Italy,

I realized he was a different coach.

I made them feel very important,

even if they were not playing all the time.

José is honest.

I knew that I was already old

because I was 35, 36 years old.

But when you find a coach who is honest,

even if you don't play, you're happy, you're content.

José knows how to make people love him.

So he made, like, a family

and created these kinds of connections.

Figo, Zanetti, Córdoba, Materazzi,

this older generation, they were really amazing.

And these guys still had dreams.

These guys, they loved the club, and these guys were there to help.

You know, I felt, I would say, an honor to help them reach that dream.

Because it was a fantastic... fantastic group of players.

The players knew their role.

The coach has the idea, but the player does it.

And we discover the solution together.

It's perfect.

José in Inter was rock and roll.

It was like, fuck, every day, something was happening.

He changed my game. He made me more of a killer.

So when I entered the field, I was feeling untouchable.

I could destroy anyone.

That's the year when I become top scorer.

So I scored goals, goals, goals.

I'm famous for having goals that players can't repeat.

That is my ego saying this, but it's also facts.

José and I, we have the same target, and that's to win.

I'll do anything to win.

He gets in your head.

He pushed me

so I would have to show that I'm the best every game.

I remember we played against Atalanta, and we were 2-2.

The next day, I would get an award for the best player in Italy.

And he says to me in half-time,

"When you receive it, you should be ashamed," he said to me.

And I look at him, "Whoa."

"You should tell your mother you don't deserve the trophy."

And I'm like, "Whoa."

"Cause the way you performed in the first half,

you should be ashamed for that award."

Obviously, you go in the second half, and what do you do?

You come out with anger, a lot of anger.

"I'm gonna show this fucker who I am, and I'm gonna prove him wrong."

That's the mindset now. He's the best at this.

He's being himself,

and that is what triggers me and makes me respect him.

Everything worked well because we were one.

The president, coach, group of players,

but we couldn't make the leap of winning in Europe.

In modern football,

it's almost impossible to win everything,

even if the team is absolutely fantastic.

We won everything. The domestic league, Super Cup, cup.

But because it was my last season,

the chance to win a Champions League was very, very important for me.

The draw gave us Man United. We were happy with the draw.

Adrenaline is in the air, so the job for me is, uh,

is easy in that aspect.

I think Man United is, of course, a great attacking team.

I'm not saying they're afraid of us, but I'm saying they respect us.

And I'm saying they know they can lose.

José was fundamental because he convinced us

that this team could also win in Europe.

It was a unique group, and everyone had to seize their moment.

Two terrific teams.

Champions of Italy against the champions of England.

Head-to-head, winner-takes-all.

Ronaldo. Quick. And clever.

Going to European football, you need a bit more than the qualities

that you need to win the Serie A.

Inter haven't won this champions' competition since 1964

and 1965.

You have to go to a different team level.

And that is the biggest challenge.

It's a Giggs corner.

And a header by Vidić.

- No one on the post. - Shocking marking.

Maicon to take the kick.

To win the Champions League, you must have absolutely everything.

I'll tell you, at this level and with that free a header,

I'm sorry, you've got to do better than that.

And we didn't have everything.

Paul Scholes for Rooney. Oh, it's Ronaldo!

They have got two goals against a Mourinho team.

It's extraordinary, if you make a mistake at this level,

how quick a team can turn.

Just an innocent mistake into a goal at the next end.

The European champions are through to the quarter finals

in the defense of their crown.

There's no Mourinho magic touch this time.

Interesting to see how the press react.

Mourinho was hired by Moratti to win the Champions League.

From this point of view, unfortunately for Inter,

even for Italian football, the mission failed.

I wanted to win the Champions League so much.

And after five years in Italy, I wanted to try something new.

I had interest from Barcelona, and I was like, "Fuck."

This Barcelona side who've won everything under Guardiola,

now they've got Zlatan Ibrahimović. They're going to be indestructible.

Now Zlatan's gone, there's nobody who can create. Zero.

The last word he says to me when I leave there, he says,

"You go to Barcelona to win the Champions League."

"Remember, this season, I will win the Champions League."

"You little fucker," I said.

Losing our most important player

to Barcelona was awful.

One of my assistants was crying, saying, "Without him, we are dead."

The Champions League is an incredible goal,

but inside me, I thought I was at the end of my career.

It was like it was the last chance for each of us.

For me, this was the last chance.

I knew perfectly what we needed at that time.

Everything was clear.

To win the Champions League, we need a team that has to be fast,

and we need a creative player.

The president came to the locker room.

And José says to him "President, next year,

if we buy five players,

we will win the Champions League."

It's fundamental, essential for the coach,

and I think he should feel protected.

You have to understand what he is doing,

and the coach has to feel understood.

Incredible reaction by the president

in the way we deal with Barcelona.

Instead of Ibra for cash,

Ibra for cash and Samuel Eto'o.

He'd won the Champions League. He was full of class,

an incredible guy.

A player who had won everything.

One of the strongest strikers in the world at that time.

José sent an Inter jersey with the number 9 on it.

He said, "These jerseys are waiting for you."

And it was so surprising, so special.

A few hours later, President Moratti called.

Defeat is the beginning

of a process to a new victory.

That's why losing to Manchester United in the Champions League

was just the beginning of it.

It wasn't easy. It required a lot of work.

But we did everything so that that dream could be fulfilled.

What brought me to Inter was not done yet.

And the next one is

Internazionale Milano.

- They play against... - Chelsea.

Chelsea.

Two and a half years since his relationship with Abramovich

reached breaking point

and he last managed here in this very competition,

a 1-1 Champions League draw against Rosenborg,

Mourinho is back as the opponent.

So with Júlio César on his side, can Mourinho play Brutus

and hasten the decline of the Roman Empire?

Before the game, it's like, "José is here."

You're like, "Right, stay strong. Don't make eye contact."

It was just intimidating.

José gave a speech in the locker room.

Just incredible.

I remember that José said,

"Don't worry. I know Chelsea."

"If we do this, we're going to win."

We said, "José cannot leave this stadium humiliated."

No way.

Not on my watch.

Honestly, I was playing against Roman in that game.

I was not playing against Chelsea.

I was not playing against the boys.

I was playing against him.

30 months he has waited to exact revenge on his old employers.

For the next 90 minutes, Mourinho is the enemy.

I wanted to win,

but it was not easy.

That Chelsea was my Chelsea.

And it's broken to Drogba!

The bread and butter of defending,

put your body on the line.

It is not a normal game for me, not a normal game for them.

But when the game starts, it becomes a normal game for me.

They want to win. I want to win.

Here's Lampard.

Drogba's ball in. Anelka's free!

And it's cleared by Thiago Motta.

Looking ragged and rocky, Inter.

I took them to the limit of commitment...

teamwork, tactical work.

Milito. Diego Milito. Big, big chance.

José is one of those coaches

who will look deep inside you for what you have...

who's going to look for the lion you have in you.

I score, the team wins,

but it was José who won that match with his speech.

Another campaign has ended in despair

for Chelsea.

Defeat inflicted on them by an old friend in Mourinho

and an old adversary in Samuel Eto'o.

A real killer goal.

That game for me was beauty.

I was playing against a guy that sacked me.

It felt like pleasure.

I go home happy, and he goes upset.

Because I know how much he loves Chelsea.

I know how much he loves to win.

But I needed revenge.

Because football belongs to people like me.

The other ones are the intruders that don't belong.

Football belongs to the players,

belongs to the coaches, belongs to the fans.

Football will always belong to us.

Mourinho!

Tomorrow, the first leg of the Champions League semifinal

between Inter and Barcelona.

After a long bus trip, the Catalan team arrived in Milan.

It seems that their talisman is Mourinho.

Mourinho, look here.

Mourinho...

...for us, is just a translator, nothing more.

- He doesn't matter at all. - Translator! Translator!

When Mourinho was a translator and assistant,

did you see him becoming the great manager he is today?

No.

In the context of your career,

what would beating what you've called the best team in the world

mean to you?

Pep Guardiola will take over as the coach...

The only thing that means is to reach the Inter dream.

This generation never did it.

We have the dream to play the Champions League final.

For Barcelona, it's not a dream. It's an obsession.

Six trophies last year, and odds-on to become the first side ever

to claim back the Champions League.

This is a very special team. I'd go as far as it's the best I've seen.

They were intelligent.

Possibly the greatest team of our generation.

Messi, he was one of the best players in the world.

He was scoring goals like drinking water.

Lionel Messi!

Strictly sensational.

Tonight it is the clash of the titans.

The first leg of the bid to reach the final in Madrid.

So who does have the most influence,

the magician on the field or the master off it?

Mourinho's always had his sights set on Barcelona since his Chelsea days.

Not least because the press disparagingly christened him "The Translator."

He'll be able to mock Barcelona in several different languages

if he ends their defense of the Champions League.

Samuel Eto'o lining up to place one. It's off the goalkeeper.

Milito's there!

Maxwell. Has he run it too far?

He's pulled it back.

And it's in!

Now Inter have to respond.

Big chance. Goal! Sneijder equalizes.

Milito to Maicon!

Goal to Inter!

Inter, who were hit hard, hit back harder.

Well won back, though, by Thiago Motta.

Cross by Eto'o. Sneijder's there again. Milito!

It's a special result for the Special One.

Inter three, Barcelona one,

and real pressure on Barcelona at the Nou Camp for the second leg.

I've been privileged to come to this stadium many times

in the last 15 years.

I have never known the atmosphere anything remotely like this.

So much at stake,

so many sub-plots, reunions, rivalries.

Two very different teams

under the spell of two very different managers.

Mutual respect, but no love lost.

Tonight, Barcelona start with a two-goal deficit to make up.

Of course, at that time, goals away count double.

They know they have only to win 2-0.

So they created an atmosphere of antagonism against me.

It was extreme pressure.

Pedro. Went past Maicon as if he wasn't there.

Motta has certainly thrust his hand there into the face of Busquets.

Referee had a pretty good view of it. I think it was a flat hand.

Card, red.

Inter Milan will have to play more than an hour in the Nou Camp with ten men.

Playing with 11 was difficult.

Playing with ten men after 20 minutes,

everyone thought, "Game over."

A derisive smile from José Mourinho

as his Brazilian midfield player is sent off.

There is a picture where I speak to Pep,

and Mourinho is coming behind.

But to be honest, I didn't hear what Mourinho was saying.

What did you say to Pep when you went down to ten men?

"Winning like this is easy, but you are not going to win."

Now José Mourinho,

he is in his element as the underdog.

"Us against the world" is his favorite fixture.

Everywhere he goes, it's us against the world.

There really is great mentality, great cohesion in the team.

When Thiago Motta gets this red card,

I look at the sideline and I see that he is making big gestures.

Come on, Samuel!

Then he tells me, "You take responsibility."

"You go on the left."

Eto'o was playing as a defender in front of me.

We're talking about Eto'o.

And at that moment, the spirit of the group takes over us.

That's how it went. I think everyone ran for two.

Messi. Curls it!

Alves.

First time hit!

Barcelona lay siege

in a very careful, considered, and accurate way.

If I had to choose, in all these years,

one half-time of, uh... emotion,

I would... I would choose that one.

I spoke about our families, our kids,

Inter fans, history, becoming legends.

Come from my heart. Come from my heart.

José was our leader.

We were all willing to die on the field to get to the final.

He found in me someone who he knew would give everything.

We were a family for him, and he for us.

I saw guys go to the pitch with tears in their eyes.

Everybody brought everything to that second half.

It was not to play football. It was to resist in a war.

If they do it with ten men,

José Mourinho will find that his reputation has risen,

even higher than perhaps he has it.

It was difficult.

We had to keep fighting for every ball.

Football is tribal.

People bleed.

They give you everything.

How much more of this can Inter withstand?

I gave everything for the team, for José,

for the great Inter family.

It was very beautiful.

Barcelona must score two goals.

Xavi Hernández. Slips through. Piqué's onside. Gerard Piqué!

Seven minutes to find a second goal to take Barcelona to Madrid.

Ninety seconds away.

Angled it towards Touré. It'll come for Bojan!

And then, they scored.

And I thought,

it's all over.

It's not gonna count.

Free kick's already been given to Inter Milan.

Barcelona are beaten.

Inter Milan will go to Madrid.

And José Mourinho's moment has come again.

His finest triumph over what he described as the best team in the world.

Barcelona have mocked him. Now they fall to him.

Even "The Translator" may be lost for words tonight.

Winning that game

was like winning the Champions League final.

It was really the most beautiful defeat of my career.

They turn on the sprinklers...

...on the pitch,

as if to tell us, "You are not celebrating your victory here."

That incredible Inter team.

These guys were special guys.

And I have to say, I never enjoyed so much

to work with a group than that one.

But after the game,

it was complex.

After the game, it was complex.

I was going to leave.

I was loved by my club, by the fans, by the players.

I was in a place where I couldn't be better.

But I wanted to win in different countries.

I wanted to know different football cultures.

I wanted to leave.

- Why? - Because I wanted to go to Real Madrid.

The only thing anyone is talking about

is the possibility of you leaving Inter Milan.

There's a lot of talk about Real Madrid.

How are you handling this situation?

I do my job. I am calm,

and I think about my team and what's in front of me.

After the final, I have to think a little about myself

and decide what I want to do.

I never wanted to broach it with him

because I didn't want to break the spell of a team

that was heading towards a victory.

I didn't want to create controversy.

No one wanted to say anything,

but deep down, I had realized that after the final,

José was not going to be our coach anymore.

What is important is the final, the match, and Inter.

And then after Sunday, on Monday, Tuesday,

I need my time to think about my future.

But I'm not Real's coach. I'm Inter's coach.

The night before the final,

Real Madrid wanted to sign the contract.

The feeling was if he wins,

maybe change his mind.

But I refused to sign the contract that night

for a question of respect.

It's the 55th European cup final.

Bayern come here as champions of Germany,

against the Italian champions, Inter.

That's why José Mourinho was brought in.

And wouldn't it be just like him to do that and then walk?

I was convinced with this group of men

and this coach that we had as our leader,

that we would write a beautiful page in the history of Inter.

Mourinho worked under Van Gaal in Barcelona.

He's no longer an apprentice

when it comes to coaching top-quality teams.

Troubled by Sneijder. And the dangerous Milito!

That season, we ended up winning the Champions League.

It was the most exciting moment for us

in all of our careers.

History for Inter Milan. The first Italian treble winners.

Tears from the man who's masterminded their first European Cup win

for a generation and more.

Tonight... the kings of Italy become emperors of Europe again.

José brought us to a higher level of performance.

And then it was what then led us to win the treble.

He gave everything possible. He gave 100% of himself to win,

and so I couldn't ask for anything more.

So you can understand the importance that José had

in our lives at that time.

There was not much we could do, unfortunately.

Champions League winner. The treble.

It meant everything.

A club that I loved. A place that I loved.

But in my mind was, win the final and go.

If I get into that plane with the players

and I go to the stadium with the fans,

I would have stayed, and I... I had my decision made.

So I had to escape.

I made the decision of, uh, staying after the match,

not going back to Milan.

I just couldn't go.

I ran away from... from that emotion.

The job was done.

"I like to give myself a challenge, and this is a big one."

Those are the words of José Mourinho

as he was unveiled as Real Madrid's new manager this morning.

I knew I had more to do. I had so much things that I wanted to do.

I have great ambition.

And nothing was going to stop me to do it.

Guardiola is a fantastic soccer coach,

but he won a Champions League

that I would be ashamed to win.

I went to Real Madrid to break the dominancy of Barcelona.

This locker room was a nightmare, honestly.

Problems start when one player thinks

he's more important than the others.

And with that, yes, obviously, there are problems.

The relationship that José and I had was very cold.

In those years, I really think it was taken to a limit

where in the end, the rope broke.

It just broke.