{"id":19910,"date":"2025-09-17T22:24:26","date_gmt":"2025-09-17T22:24:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/who-says-no-to-benfica-jose-mourinho-arrives-for-talks-with-portuguese-club\/"},"modified":"2025-09-17T22:24:26","modified_gmt":"2025-09-17T22:24:26","slug":"who-says-no-to-benfica-jose-mourinho-arrives-for-talks-with-portuguese-club","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/who-says-no-to-benfica-jose-mourinho-arrives-for-talks-with-portuguese-club\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Who says no to Benfica?&#8217; &#8211; Jose Mourinho arrives for talks with Portuguese club"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Mourinho began his managerial career with Benfica in 2000 but took charge of only 10 games and left after a dispute with the club president.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He then made his name with Porto between 2002 and 2004, winning six trophies &#8211; including the Champions League in 2003-04.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Since leaving his homeland in 2004, Mourinho has managed Chelsea, Inter Milan, Real Madrid, Manchester United, Tottenham Hotspur, Roma and Fenerbahce.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He left the Turkish club on 29 August, two days after they were eliminated from the Champions League play-offs by Benfica.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Should Benfica appoint Mourinho, he would face Chelsea in the Champions League at Stamford Bridge on 30 September.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Benfica also travel to Newcastle United and host Real Madrid later in the league phase of the competition.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/articles\/cy85gjzp21vo?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mourinho began his managerial career with Benfica in 2000 but took charge of only 10 games and left after a dispute with the club president. He then made his name with Porto between 2002 and 2004, winning six trophies &#8211; including the Champions League in 2003-04. Since leaving his homeland in 2004, Mourinho has managed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":19911,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19910","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-european-football","category-world-sport"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19910","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19910"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19910\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19912,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19910\/revisions\/19912"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19911"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}