{"id":495511,"date":"2025-09-17T06:26:25","date_gmt":"2025-09-17T10:26:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=495511"},"modified":"2025-09-17T06:26:25","modified_gmt":"2025-09-17T10:26:25","slug":"mourinho-returns-home-to-become-the-head-coach-of-benfica","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/mourinho-returns-home-to-become-the-head-coach-of-benfica\/","title":{"rendered":"Mourinho returns home to become the head coach of Benfica"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jose Mourinho can be a boss very soon again, as almost certainly he will become the next manager of Benfica after Bruno Lage was dismissed after the UCL loss vs. Qarabag.<\/p>\n<p>The Eagles had a 2-goal lead, but were beaten by the Azerbaijani team 3-2 at their stadium, Estadio da Luz, yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>The Lisbon giants president claimed that they intend to have a new head coach by the weekend, but will not talk more about his choices at the moment, and that, according to the media, Mourinho is the favorite.<\/p>\n<p>Jose has already begun discussions with the president of the Lisbon Eagles to become the boss of the team and return to his home country, 21 years after he left to take charge of Chelsea.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe next manager of Benfica must be with a winning mentality,\u201d shared the president of the club.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is not the time to talk about names at the moment, as we haven\u2019t decided yet who he will be, and nothing is official.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Jose started his head coaching career with Benfica in 2000, but led them for only 10 matches and left after a scandal with the president.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Jos\u00e9 Mourinho is close to a \ud835\udc11\ud835\udc04\ud835\udc13\ud835\udc14\ud835\udc11\ud835\udc0d to Benfica, where he began his managerial career more than 25 years ago. \ud83e\udd85<\/p>\n<p>2000 \u2014 \ud835\udc01\ud835\udc1e\ud835\udc27\ud835\udc1f\ud835\udc22\ud835\udc1c\ud835\udc1a<br \/>2001 \u2014 Uni\u00e3o de Leiria<br \/>2002 \u2014 Porto<br \/>2004 \u2014 Chelsea<br \/>2008 \u2014 Inter<br \/>2010 \u2014 Real Madrid<br \/>2013 \u2014 Chelsea<br \/>2016 \u2014 Man United<br \/>2019 \u2014 Spurs<br \/>2021 \u2014 Roma\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/j7Bmsghmp5\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/j7Bmsghmp5<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; 433 (@433) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/433\/status\/1968227309736841378?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">September 17, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jose Mourinho can be a boss very soon again, as almost certainly he will become the next manager of Benfica after Bruno Lage [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":495512,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[18737,17865],"news_category":[14235,16715],"gn_keywords":[18738,17866],"acf":{"news_source":"","link_picture":"","announce":"Jose is very close to being announced as the Eagles manager.","video":[]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/495511"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4225"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=495511"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/495511\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":495513,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/495511\/revisions\/495513"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/495512"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=495511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=495511"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=495511"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=495511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}