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Jose Mourinho new coach at Real Madrid for the season 2010/11 gave an interview to one of the leading Spanish daily newspapers El Pais for their Sunday edition magazine.
See the interview with Mourinho in Spanish here
The headline reads: José Mourinho ‘En el fútbol lo arriesgo todo. En lo personal, riesgo cero.
Jose Mourinho: In football I risk everything. At the personal level I risk nothing.

A: At the beginning when I read to you what Robinson was saying about you. Those who are close to you say that you are warm and human. But in many places they say that you are a difficult person, inaccessible, irritable. How do you react when you read what people say about you ?
Q: First of all, I do not read a lot about what people say about me. Oscar (Oscar Ribo who is present at the interview and who is the responsible for press for Mourinho and Real Madrid) is witness that every dayI want an sms from him with a summary of the press because I do not read newspaper nor do I watch TV. I only use the TV for matches I want to or I have to watch. It is a way to protect my personal well-being and stability.
If a person close to me speaks badly about me yes this does create a problem because it means that something is wrong with me or in relation to this person. When somebody who does not know me speaks badly about me this does not create any problem at all. The football has given me some many good things that it also has the right to give me something bad.

Question: What is the bad part:
Answer: The complete loss of privacy. Everybody knows me. Everybody talks about me. I cannot walk quietly on the street. I cannot go for a walk with my kids with my wife con my family. I cannot travel freely. And I have to put up with a lot of lies about me – when I read – that is.

Question: And what is the part which has annoyed you the most.
Answer: The lies. Outside of football I am a totally different man from what I am in football. In football I risk everything. In my way of leading and managing – in my way of communication – my way of dealing with the press – I risk a lot with the team – you will get to see that. In my personal life I am the exact opposite. I risk zero. Low profile. No risky investments. I risk nothing with my Euros. I am a low profile guy – I do not like the social scene at all. And the lies is what I like least of all. They said that during my holidays in Kenya I had met with a witch. What they invent ……..

Question: They also say that you like to read and that you like music.
Answer: Look, people see one Mourinho during the 90 minutes of the match + during press conferences before and after the match. This Mourinho is playing the match. It is difficult to comprehend the Mourinho who is not playing the match. During the match I am on my feet for 90 minutes. I speak to my players, I speak to the adversaries, I speak to the referees. I play my game I do not come out there to do theater I am working. The press conferences are part of the work space. The public know me from my work. This interview I give to you today I do not know if it is going to be repeated throughout the season since I only rarely concede interviews. I never appear on TV and I would never open the door to my home to anyone. To stop on the street to talk to fans is very difficult also. I would like to visit a local fan club of my current club but they have told me that they are some many and that if I go to one I have to go to all of them.. So therefore nobody knows Mourinho. His family knows him. His friends know him. Those are the ones who know the real Mourinho.

Question: Allow me for a moment to enter you house. What kind of books do you read ?
Answer: I like Gabriel García Márquez but in reality I have little time available to read. I work for long hours and when I get back home I like to spend the time with my family. I cannot be so egoistic as to demand my own space and time. I need to do things which they like to do: watch a movie which my wife likes, go to the cinema to watch the movie that my kids like. The other day I was in Madrid. I was very tired but my kids wanted to go to the amusement park so we went to the amusement park.

Question: What makes you laugh ?
Answer: At home I laugh a lot. At work also. And to win also makes me laugh a lot.

Question: Lets end this interview with another poet. Kipling. If between to shams: defeat and victory.
Do you think the same ? That they are a double -edged sword.
Answer: Sometimes after a defeat (which luckily enough have been few and far between) I should not be sad because in the other locker room there are people who are very happy. But in order to really think this way I would need to lose many times.

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