Mourinho reveals Bayern UCL defeat is only time he have ever cried after a football match

Bayern Munich reduced Jose Mourinho to tears in 2012 when they knocked his Real Madrid team out of the Champions League eight years ago, the Portuguese coach has revealed. Photo: Reuters/Matthew Childs

Bayern Munich reduced Jose Mourinho to tears in 2012 when they knocked his Real Madrid team out of the Champions League eight years ago, the Portuguese coach has revealed. Photo: Reuters/Matthew Childs

Published May 2, 2020

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BARCELONA - Bayern Munich reduced Jose Mourinho to tears in

2012 when they knocked his Real Madrid team out of the Champions

League eight years ago, the Portuguese coach has revealed.

"That night is the only time I have ever cried after a football

match," Mourinho said in an interview with Spanish sports paper Marca

on Saturday.

"I remember it well: me and Aitor [Karanka, Mourinho's assistant]

parked in the car in front of my house, crying.

"It was very hard to take because in that 2011-12 season we were the

best team in Europe."

This weekend marks eight years since Mourinho ended Pep Guardiola's

Barcelona's domination in Spain by winning La Liga with a record 100

points tally.

But Mourinho also had the chance to win what would have at the time

been Real's 10th Champions League, only to lose on penalties to

Bayern in the semi-finals, with Cristiano Ronaldo, Kaka and Sergio

Ramos all missing from the spot.

"That is also football. Cristiano, Kaka, Sergio Ramos, they are three

monsters of football, there is no doubt about that. But they are also

human," Mourinho said.

Reflecting on winning La Liga, Mourinho said: "That was my hat-trick,

if we put aside Portugal. I wanted to win the league in England,

Italy and Spain. And I'm still the only coach who has done it."

dpa

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