You can win and score goals. Mourinho is out of date, so Benfica will catch this rich man!

Mourinho officially signed with Benfica, and the most special one returned to the starting point. Since joining the teaching world in the millennium, Mourinho has moved to all directions in the past 25 years, leading many wealthy families to achieve great achievements, leaving an indelible mark. Perhaps the recent coaching experience has not met the expectations of the outside world, but this is the motivation for the madman to re-prove himself. The charming coach with his own traffic and the Eagle Legion in trouble are destined to be a match made in heaven.

[In the 1/4th century, "Green Magellan" returns to the starting point]

In the second leg of the Champions League knockout playoffs three weeks ago, Benfica defeated Fenerbahce at home and won the qualifying for the Champions League stage. This game that seemed ordinary at the time was likely to be mentioned countless times in the future because of the wonderful gear of fate. The two focus figures in this game then exchanged clubs, Aktilcoolu, who scored the only goal in the game, joined Fenerbahce, and Mourinho returned to the starting point of his coaching career.

Since coaching Benfica in the 2000/01 season, Mourinho has changed his team 11 times in the past 25 years, winning the championship in 26 important events. From leading Porto to win the Europa League and the Champions League, to reshaping Chelsea's temperament and changing the Premier League landscape, from leading Inter Milan to epicly crowning the triple crown, to helping the Galaxy battleships fight against "Dream Three", from bringing "Middle Three Championships" to Manchester United, to breaking Roma's European Championship drought... Even though neither Tottenham nor Fenerbahce recorded the championship, Mourinho's coaching career is still legendary.

Since joining the teaching world, Mourinho has led four teams to the European finals six times, polishing his personal signature with the miracle of winning the new three major cups. Before that controversial Europa League final, Mourinho's European finals had a 100% winning rate.

In addition to the competitive considerations, Rui Costa (Chairman Benfica) obviously also attaches importance to the attributes of the madman "traffic superstar". Tottenham, Roma and Fenerbahce all invited Mourinho at a critical period of club development. They had longed for opportunities for leapfrog development, but eventually gave up because they could not bear the pressure of public opinion. Benfica has more background than the above three companies, knows how to deal with the relationship between superstars and the media, and does not want to miss such historical opportunities. Mourinho is undoubtedly the ideal candidate to achieve his goal of regaining the Portuguese Super League and breaking the "Goodman curse".

[You can score goals and win, the Magic Bird is not outdated]

In the long years before the millennium, Portugal was just a marginal character in the European football territory. After Mourinho's appearance, the coaches and players who walked out of both sides of the Tejo River made the world re-recognize this country. Mourinho opened the era of academic coaches, allowing the world to see the charm and value of coaches as mental workers, set an example for many latecomers who have no professional players but are keen on studying and learning, and also made indelible contributions to the scientific and systematic development of football.

Mourinho's success opened up a "sales channel" for the Portuguese coach.

Since the 2014/15 season, Mourinho has not won the league championship for nearly a decade, and has been away from the Champions League stage for five years, and the arguments about the madman being outdated are rampant. His coaching career has fallen into a strange road, but Mourinho has never given up on tactical knowledge updates. As the cradle of Portugal's young marshals in the new era, Mourinho's past of competing with his juniors here has been rumored to be a good story. Many young marshals, including Marco Silva, Paul Sousa, Lager, and Amorin, have benefited greatly from their exchanges with madmen.

Since the 2015/16 season, Mourinho's coaching career has moved into a downward range, but his experience of survival of adversity has inspired more tactical inspiration. During his years at Manchester United, Mourinho abandoned the fixed routine and opened up the tactical kaleidoscope. The Red Devils tried at least 5 formations on the road to the "Mini Three Championships". The 20 sets of central defenders and more than a dozen wing configurations are dazzling. A number of players with established skills have been successfully transformed. Even Pogba, who has a perverted personality, is willing to use a universal puzzle to drive the madman. When coaching Tottenham Hotspur, Mourinho continued to play the formation of Rubik's Cube and led the team to the finals of the British League Cup. After moving to Rome, Mourinho continued the offensive football style of Di Francesco and Paul Fonseca during the period, and led the team to the European finals for two consecutive years through changing the formation, bringing the long-awaited European championship to the Red Wolves.

From leading Manchester United to winning the "Middle Three Championship" to helping Roma achieve a breakthrough in European Championships, Mourinho's achievements in recent years cannot be underestimated.

When Mourinho left the Turkish Super League, Fenerbahce chairman Ali Kochi once said that Fenerbahce's DNA was "scoring 99 goals and 99 points", and the Portuguese's football philosophy of focusing on defense was contrary to the club culture. The art of defense is the foundation of a madman, but it is obviously biased to say that he cannot train his offense. Mourinho once pointed out that the offensive and defensive transition phase is the decisive moment of the game. The defense and counter-tactic tactics are actually about retreating to advance, and retreating is to create an offensive depth and create a relatively relaxed space for the frontcourt attackers to handle the ball.

When he led Real Madrid to win the La Liga championship that year, Mourinho used the "7-second fast break" style to play with a miracle of 121 goals in 38 games. After returning to the Premier League, Mourinho successively created the "Facade Link" and Sun Kai combination. In the early stage of the 2021/22 season, Roma's shots and pins ranked first in the five major leagues, and the average number of positive shots and corner kicks averaged, and the Serie A heroes caught off guard against Muslim football. Last season, Fenerbahce scored 90 goals in the league, only one goal less than Galatasaray, a strong rival with 10 power forwards. Ali Kochi's evaluation of Mourinho is obviously unfair..

[The fickle madman, the gospel of the Portuguese Super League]

During his coaching at Manchester United and Tottenham, Mourinho made sharp comments on many British stars (Rashford, Ali, etc.), showing the stubbornness and toughness of the old-school coach. Within the framework of strict management, Mourinho has also made many changes in training and management, including increasing the proportion of ball training, changing the pre-match preparation model and accommodation requirements, reducing the frequency of verbal and psychological warfare, etc., to fit the "taste" of young players. During his coaching in Rome, Mourinho presided over the construction of a digital training ground and made tactical deployments through advanced equipment such as drones and large screens. This "old coach" who has been struggling in football for 1/4th century is well aware of the routines of young coaches.

Training Benfica with a "second entrepreneurship" and a mentality of reminiscing about glory, Mourinho's actual work is not easy. In the summer window of 2025, Benfica sent away the main players such as Di Maria, Alvaro Carreras, Florentino Luis, Kirkqu and Aktilcoolu. Mourinho needs to rebuild around Pavlidiz, Ivanovic, Ousers, Barenicea, Otamendi and Antonio Silva. It is not easy to complete this task without a complete preparation period.

In the summer window of 2025, Benfica demolished the main lineup and sent away several key players. While leading the team to challenge the strong opponents on both sides, and rebuilding the main lineup, Mourinho's work in Benfica is beyond imagination.

In addition to solving the locker room problem, Mourinho also has to face the pressure brought by strong enemies. Even with the loss of Yorke, Portuguese Sports is still strong in the Portuguese Super League. Five years later, he appeared on the Champions League stage again, but what awaited Mourinho was the hell schedule. Real Madrid, Juventus, Naples, Chelsea, Newcastle and Leverkusen were all above Benfica. It is not easy for Mourinho to successfully complete the contract on both fronts.

Beginning his career from Benfica, he went to Leria, and later became famous in Porto. Mourinho's rise back then had a profound impact on the Portuguese Super League and even the five major leagues. One thing that is easy to be overlooked is that the madman reinterpreted the meaning of the team's "leader". Mourinho pointed out that in this era of high player mobility, stories like Totti, Gerald, Zanetti and Muller have become rare and difficult to find, and the head coach should give full play to his functional advantages and become the real leader of the team.

When I came to Real Madrid from Everton, Ancelotti once went upstream, and Mourinho also had the opportunity to accomplish such a feat.

Since Joseph Jesus left the team, Benfica has taken too many detours, not only was he suppressed by Portuguese sports in the civil war, but he also lost his iconic tactical style. Due to the long-term adherence to the outward-oriented business strategy, Benfica's lineup has a lot of liquidity, and it is not easy to maintain cohesion and shape the team culture. It is not enough to rely solely on the high-level leadership of the club chairman. They also need a general who is worthy of the team's history, respects the club culture and traditions, and can lead the players to charge on the front line.

On one hand is a traditional wealthy family looking forward to regaining glory, and on the other hand, a famous coach who is eager to prove himself again, Mourinho's hand in hand with Benfica will start a story about redemption. Just like the experience of the Turkish super-time experience last season, Mourinho's appearance will not only make the Portuguese Super League championship battle the focus of public opinion, but also benefit many small and medium-sized teams. In this era of crazy and eye-catching Premier League, the traffic blessing brought by the madman is tantamount to wealth from the sky for the "small league".