When Jose Mourinho leads his Real Madrid side out against Manchester City on Wednesday, it will be his 100th Champions League game. And at 49 years, he will become the youngest manager to achieve this feat. What makes this record more remarkable, is that he has already won the competition with Porto and Inter Milan.
“Fortunately I have never been eliminated in the group phase and, therefore, the number of games per season has never been less than six,” he pointed out. “I twice did the maximum of 13 games per season, and in four others I had 12 matches.
On his most memorable games, he said: “There are many, but I mainly remember the Manchester United-Porto game [at Old Trafford] that made us feel that we could be European champions.
“Also the Chelsea-Barcelona match where we won 4-2. The Inter-Barcelona semi-final, when Milan won 3-1 and in the second leg, the one I call the game of heroes at Camp Nou, when we were reduced to 10 for more than an hour is special because we were able to lead Inter to the final in Madrid.”
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