Having won 26 major club trophies across Portugal, England, Italy, Spain, and Italy, Jose Mourinho is one of the most decorated managers in football history.
Over the course of his illustrious career, has coached some of the biggest teams in the world such as Real Madrid, Chelsea, Inter Milan and Manchester United.
Along with his footballing success, Mourinho is also known for having an extremely charismatic, competitive and polarising personality, and his antics on and off the field have been entertaining fans for years.
Now, fans have an opportunity to get to know the Portuguese mastermind even more closely, as popular streaming giant Netflix have recently released a three-part documentary following three of the most memorable coaching jobs he has held in his career, with Chelsea, Inter Milan and Real Madrid.
Released on August 11, the series is simply named “MOURINHO”. It provides fans with an exclusive sneak peek into Mourinho’s day-to-day life and also includes interviews with legendary figures of world football such as Sir Alex Ferguson, Frank Lampard, John Terry, Didier Drogba, Zlatan Ibrahimović, Samuel Eto’o, Javier Zanetti, Iker Casillas, Marcelo, and Petr Čech.
The documentary has been quite well received by fans and critics alike, boasting a score of 7.8/10 on IMDb and an 83% rating on Rotten Tomatoes.
Naturally, many football fans were quick to watch and finish the series, and upon it’s completion, they were met with a comical surprise.
Once a viewer finishes watching the Jose Mourinho documentary, Netflix often recommends another famous documentary about the hunt for terrorist Osama Bin Laden – the man responsible for the infamous 9/11 attacks.
This documentary, known as “American Manhunt: Osama bin Laden”, narrates the decade-long story of how intelligence forces tracked the whereabouts of Bin Laden, before ultimately narrowing his location down to a a walled residential compound in Bilal Town, Abbottabad, Pakistan.
Bin Laden was ultimately killed by U.S. Navy SEAL Team Six during a covert nighttime operation named Operation Neptune Spear. Just like the Jose Mourinho documentary, this show has also garnered rave reviews, earning a a score of 7.7/10 on IMDb and a rare 100% Rotten Tomatoes review.
Rather than telling the story from an outside perspective, this documentary offers an extremely gripping narrative, and it often comes accross as a thriller film, even though the final outcome is pretty well known. It also includes exclusive interviews with CIA and military insiders, allowing viewers to truly feel the gravity of the operation.
While both documentaries are quite solid in their own right, as a football fan, it is a bit comical to see Netflix recommend Bin Laden’s series right after that of Jose Mourinho.
Those familiar with the memes surrounding Mourinho’s typical defence-first tactics will know that plenty of fans on social media often refer to Mourinho’s prefered “Park-the-bus” style of football as “Terrorist football” or “Haram Ball”, for how it is based on suffocating the opposing team and starve them of attacking opportunities, rather than taking attacking initiative and risk leaving gaps behind yourself in the process.
While this style has it’s fair share of critics, it has been undeniably effective for Mourinho, and he has led some of his teams to historic defensive feats. Most notably, under Mourinho’s tutelage, the Chelsea team of the 2004/05 season went on to record the best-ever defensive season in Premier League history, conceding only 15 goals over the course of 38 games.
He also masterminded Inter Milan to a 1-0 victory over FC Barcelona, considered one of the most legendary attacking teams of all time, in the 2010 Champions League Semi-Final.
