If you think José Mourinho's rants are wild, his first ever rant was completely insane. In 2000, Mourinho had only 8 career matches as a coach, when his Benfica player, Sabry, called him out in public. Mourinho's reply was crazy. "It's not easy for a coach to like a player who has an absurd average of offsides per game, that doesn't know how to position himself, that runs away from the pressure in away matches, that in the last few games was 3 times one on one with the goalkeeper and didn't score a goal, that at half-time, when I'm more aggressive, goes to the secretary to complain and say he's afraid of me. It's not easy for a coach to like a player like this. Then he says I never speak with him and the relationship is not correct. I have a little book about my individual meetings with the players, everything is there. With Sabry, who says I never speak with him, I had 7 individual meetings. Not one, not two, seven. And of the seven meetings, three of them were in the past 4 days. I spoke with him, but he doesn't like the things I tell him. Then he says that playing only 20 minutes in a match is little for him. Well, the only time he played only 20 minutes was against Paços de Ferreira, when he took 8 minutes just to put on his boots. Sabry left me a message via the media, so I feel perfectly confortable leaving him a message via the media as well. So I want to leave a message to Sabry and to the fans: This is Benfica, not Paok Salonica [Sabry's former club]." José Mourinho was a head coach for a little over a month. 😂

José Mourinho's incredible story on the hustle of being an assistant coach at Barcelona: "I had to show I was good enough to work at that level, with Ronaldo, Stoichkov, Pep, Figo. I had situations like being in Valencia, watching the opponent of next week, finish the match, drive to Camp Nou, arrive 5 minutes before our match. Then, go home and finish the report until 3 am. Then wake up and go to the training session. Every week, repeat. When I see assistants who say they are tired of their work, I say 'F*ck off, man. You don't know what it is to be tired of being an assistant'." "In the span of 3 months, my wife's mother passed away, my sister passed away, and my daughter was born. It was an incredibly hard period. But I was doing everything to deserve to be at that level under a difficult situation. This was my life, fighting for my career. Young guy, Portuguese, without a big name and without being a player before… you have to prove yourself."