Jose Mourinho on 20 years as a manager: My DNA hasn't changed

Jose Mourinho sits down with Sky Sports ahead of Tottenham's Super Sunday opener vs Everton, live on Sky Sports Premier League and Main Event; Kick-off 4.30pm

"Of course, the colour of my hair is different, and some wrinkles! But I'm the same guy, the same principles, the same passion, nothing at all has changed."

It's 20 years since Jose Mourinho made the step up to management at Benfica. Now, via many highs, a few lows, eight league titles and two Champions League crowns, the 57-year-old starts a new season at his new rebuilding job.

Tottenham represented a new challenge for the Portuguese boss, not least because he joined midway through a season, a rarity for him, followed by cameras for Amazon's fly-on-the-wall 'All or Nothing' series, released two weeks before the season started.

With his full season on the horizon, Mourinho insists his DNA hasn't changed since that day 20 years ago, where he took over from the legendary Jupp Heynckes in Lisbon.

"I am the same in my DNA, my principles, I'm the same man," he told Sky Sports' Patrick Davison ahead of their Super Sunday clash at home to Everton (Kick-off 4.30pm). "But obviously a big evolution in terms of coaching, in terms of managing players and football teams, and the evolution of everything related to the game.

"But I am the same guy. Of course, the colour of my hair is different, and some wrinkles! But I'm the same guy, the same principles, the same passion, nothing at all has changed. ราคาบอลไหล

"I love everything related to my job. The only thing I don't enjoy is to lose - I hate to lose. But I know very well that it is part of our job. But everything related to my job is something I love, that's why I don't see myself doing another thing in my life.

"In football I just love everything. If you ask me about everything related to the job, there is nothing I don't enjoy. Even the problems, the difficulties, are things I enjoy about the job. So the challenge is to be happy, happy, happy, happy!

"Being a football manager is a very complex job. If people thing it is just to choose 11 players, it isn't. If people thing it is just to analyse tactically and prepare the team tactically, it isn't. If people think it is just to manage the human beings, to be the leader of a group, it isn't.

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