For José Mourinho, Italy is not among the favorites for Euro 2024. The Special One, Fenerbahce’s new coach, is at the National Stadium to watch the match friendly match between Portugal and Croatia, future opponent of the Azzurri in the continental tournament group in Germany. Reached by some reporters, Mourinho made some scathing statements on the Romehis former team, and on Italian national team. “I’m here to see Livakovic, my goalkeeper, in action. Both Portugal and Croatia are two excellent teams. The favorites for the European Championships? Everyone thinks like me. Portugal, France, England, Germany and Spain.”
Italy is not favored in Germany
No Italy, then. Although coach Luciano Spalletti’s team is the reigning champion given the Wembley triumph with England in 2021: «Italy doesn’t have enough talent in this generation, I don’t think they will win again.” He then continued, talking about his arrival at Fenerbahçe without sparing any digs at his former teams: «I missed playing to win, fighting to not be able to lose even a point motivates me: it wasn’t like that either at Roma – even if they said the opposite – or at Tottenham.” Now for Mourinho there is only the Fenerbahcelast season finished second in the league, behind Icardi’s Galatasaray.
On his Fenerbahce
«Internally we are a good team, but to become champions and do well in Europe we need to intervene on the market. We will only know the name of the president tomorrow, but all three candidates have approved my arrival. The director (Mario Branco, ed.) and I speak the same language, he is a great expert on Turkish football.” Finally, a perfect joke Mourinho style: I have already told my players involved in the European Championships that, even if they reach the final, the following day they will be in Istanbul for preparation.”
