José Mourinho

In 1989, Jose Mourinho married his teenage sweetheart Matilde "Tami" Faria, whom he met in Setúbal, Portugal. The couple had a daughter, Matilde, in 1996, and son, José Mário, Jr., in 2000. His son plays football for Fulham's youth team.

He is involved with various charities and is a Global Ambassador of the United Nations' World Food Programme since 2014. He was part of a youth project seeking to bring Israeli and Palestinian children together through football and donated his 'lucky' jacket to Tsunami Relief.

Jose Mourinho was born on January 26, 1963 in a middle-class family in Setúbal, Portugal, to professional football player José Manuel Mourinho Félix and his wife, primary school teacher Maria Júlia Carrajola dos Santos.

His father, better known as Félix Mourinho, played for Os Belenenses and Vitória de Setúbal, and also played one match for the Portuguese national team. He has an older sister, Teresa.

He accompanied his father on his weekend matches and training sessions, which helped him learn the nuances of the game. He followed his father to the Belenenses youth team to become a professional football player, but upon realizing his lack of strength and pace, he decided to become a coach instead.

He dropped out of the private business school his mother had enrolled him into and chose to study sports science in Technical University of Lisbon. Upon earning his diploma, he worked as a physical education teacher at schools for about five years.

Returning to his hometown, Jose Mourinho became youth team coach at Vitória de Setúbal in the early 1990s, followed by short spells as assistant manager at Estrela da Amadora and scout at Ovarense. In 1992, he got the opportunity to work as an interpreter for renowned foreign coach, Bobby Robson, at Sporting Club Portugal.

The two developed a good working relationship and he followed Robson to FC Porto in December 1993, becoming his assistant. The team reached the 1993–94 UEFA Champions League semi-finals and won the 1993–94 Taça de Portugal, the 1994–95 and 1995–96 Portuguese championship, and the 1994, 1995 and 1996 Portuguese Super Cup.

In 1996, he again accompanied Robson when he moved to Barcelona, where he took additional responsibilities of coordinating practice sessions and providing tactical advice to the players. They ended another successful season by helping Barcelona win the European Cup Winners' Cup.

While Robson again moved to new club the following season, Mourinho was retained by the club and as the assistant to new head coach Louis van Gaal, he helped Barcelona win La Liga twice. Van Gaal later gave him coaching duties of Barcelona B and also let him coach the first team during Copa Catalunya in 2000, which he won.

He joined as the manager at Benfica in September 2000, and within a week, was offered the assistant manager's job at Newcastle United by Robson, which he declined. Following a brief stint at Benfica, he left for Uniao de Leira in 2001 and helped the team move up the league table.

Among Jose Mourinho's numerous title wins, notable are the UEFA Champions League wins for Porto and Internazionale, three Premier League titles and three Football League Cups for Chelsea, and La Liga for Real Madrid. He has also won league titles in four different countries: Portugal, England, Italy and Spain.