Jose Mourinho insists that winning the UEFA Champions League again is not an obsession. The Portuguese, who has won the competition twice before with FC Porto in 2004 and Inter Milanin 2010, would become the first coach to win Europe’s top club competition with three different clubs if he manages to do it with Chelsea this season. Speaking ahead of the Blues’ UCLopener at home to Bundesliga giant Schalke in Group G, Mourinho admits that while he would love to win it again, it would not reflect badly on his career if he does not.
“Do I want to try towin it again? Of course,” he said. “What drives me is to try to win. I work for my club, for my players and for the club supporters. I don’t work for myself. If I win it once more, to win withthree clubs is unique. But even if I don’t do it, how many top managers in the world have only one or even not a single one? The greatest in our country (Alex Ferguson), he won it twice.”
He added: “If at the end of my career I’ve achieved that situation, then good, but it’s far from being an obsession and it’s not something that I think about a lot. I have the ambition to winit again, but in this moment I only think about don’t play Europa League. We have a championship of six matches and three opponents (in Group G) and we have to do everything to qualify.”