José Mourinho returns. Floretino Pérez’s candidacy was made official on Wednesday night, just after Enro+ique Riquelme’s intervention in El Hormiguero, in which the announcement of a crack by the Alicante businessman is scheduled.
Floretino counterprograms Riquelme with a short video in which Mourinho appears wearing a Real Madrid shirt and saying a short but forceful message: “Yes.”
In this way, in the event of Florentino’s victory in the elections next Sunday, Mourinho would return to Real Madrid, which he directed between 2010 and 2013, a period in which he raised the competitiveness of the white team in the full splendor of Pep Guardiola and Messi’s Barcelona. They achieved three white titles, highlighting the ‘League of Records’, in which the team broke the record for points and goals in the Spanish domestic competition.
Despite the obvious growth of the white team under his mandate, its greatest weakness occurred in the European Cup. It is true that they overcame the ‘wall’ of the round of 16 that Madrid had been crashing against for years, but they did not go beyond the semi-finals. Especially painful was the 2012 elimination against Bayern in the Bernabéu penalty shootout, with errors by Cristiano, Kaká and Ramos.
It was precisely the Champions League that brought Mourinho to Madrid in his first stage. His success with Porto in 2004 established him as the best coach in Europe, a condition that he confirmed in 2010 when he led Inter Milan to a treble that included winning the European Cup at the Bernabéu.
It was after that when he arrived at the white club to replace Manuel Pellegrini. His time at the club is fondly remembered by a large sector of the fans and Florentino Pérez himself, who considers his time at the club as one of the keys to the successes that would come later, with the conquest of six Champions Leagues in ten years between 2014 and 2024.
