{"id":495542,"date":"2025-09-18T12:05:21","date_gmt":"2025-09-18T16:05:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=495542"},"modified":"2025-09-18T12:05:44","modified_gmt":"2025-09-18T16:05:44","slug":"benfica-announce-jose-mourinho-as-new-head-coach","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/benfica-announce-jose-mourinho-as-new-head-coach\/","title":{"rendered":"Benfica announce Jose Mourinho as new head coach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jos\u00e9 Mourinho has got back home and he will be the new manager of Benfica, the team revealed today.<\/p>\n<p>Mourinho inked a 2-year contract with the Eagles less than 3 weeks after Fenerbahce dismissed him.<\/p>\n<p>The Lisbon giants announced that Mourinho\u2019s deal includes a special clause that will allow both sides, after the end of the current campaign, to decide to end the contract, and he will continue as head coach only if that doesn\u2019t happen.<\/p>\n<p>Jose was eliminated by Benfica in the playoffs for the main stage of the UCL, and that led to his dismissal by his former Turkish team. Now, he will take the place of Bruno Lage at the helm of the Eagles, as the previous head coach of the team was dismissed 2 days ago when he lost to Qarabag at home 3-2 despite having a 2-0 lead.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"es\" dir=\"ltr\">\ud83e\udd85 Welcome, m\u00edster Jos\u00e9 Mourinho! <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/dpwSjDdNZB\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/dpwSjDdNZB<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; SL Benfica (@slbenfica_en) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/slbenfica_en\/status\/1968687056596398413?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">September 18, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Jose began his career as a manager at Benfica in 2000, and now he will return to be their head coach again, 25 years later. The Portuguese manager revealed in the past that he wanted to manage in his home country, and now his wish has come true.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jos\u00e9 Mourinho has got back home and he will be the new manager of Benfica, the team revealed today. Mourinho inked a 2-year [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":486583,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[18737,17865],"news_category":[14235],"gn_keywords":[18738,17866],"acf":{"news_source":"","link_picture":"","announce":"The Portuguese manager will manage them again after 25 years.","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\/495542"}],"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=495542"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/495542\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":495545,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/495542\/revisions\/495545"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/486583"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=495542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=495542"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=495542"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=495542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}