Mourinho reveals chat with ex-Benfica star shining in Portugal 🇵🇹 | OneFootball

César Peixoto and José Mourinho had a conversation before the Benfica - Gil Vicente match, which took place last Friday, September 26th. The Benfica coach praised the Gil Vicente coach, who has been one of the revelations of this edition of the Liga Portugal Betclic.

"It doesn't coincide because he was 21 years old with all the flaws of 21-year-old players, he acknowledges. We were talking before the game. He recognizes that it's a different period," began José Mourinho, about the time when the Benfica coach guided the Gil Vicente coach (who was still playing), at Porto - and did not consider the result fair.

José Mourinho continued, with a new revelation about that period in Porto: "I was at his cruciate ligament surgery, and it helped me a lot. I was one of those who wanted them to recover quickly, after that I started to be more balanced."

"I asked if he liked it and he said he liked it a lot, more than when he was playing and that's what a coach needs", explained, concluding the topic, José Mourinho, still about the conversation he shared with César Peixoto before the Benfica - Gil Vicente match, about the new role of the Barcelos team's coach.

Finally, José Mourinho was asked if he was surprised by the level of Gil Vicente, and by the game plan presented by César Peixoto: "It didn't surprise me, it's what I've seen since the beginning of the championship, it has the quality to look up, it's not afraid of relegation."

This article was translated into English by Artificial Intelligence. You can read the original version in 🇵🇹 here.