Jose Mourinho reflects on his first weeks in charge of Benfica, admitting he is astonished: “I said Benfica is a giant club, and now that I’m inside, they never cease to amaze me.”
Jose Mourinho is in his first weeks as manager of Benfica and is already captivated by what he has found at the Estadio da Luz.
“It’s not because I’m with Benfica now; I said it a couple of months ago when I was a rival. I said that Benfica is a giant club, and now that I am inside, they never cease to amaze me,” said the Eagles’ manager, speaking on the sidelines of the ‘Sport Lisboa e Benfica Health & Performance Congress’.
“What you hear is one thing; what you see, feel, and experience daily is another. The physical structure is one thing, and the human structure is another. Obviously, you hear a lot about what Seixal is like as a structure, but it really is a fantastic club, with all the conditions that a coach and a football team could need,” he emphasised.
Mourinho was keen to make everything crystal clear: “Benfica is one of those clubs where you arrive with a small group of people, as was my case, and then you just have to create functional empathy and start working as a group, because, in fact, Benfica has everything”.