Mourinho, ainda e sempre!

Pelo sempre excelente Terceiro Anel cheguei a este artigo no London Review of Books. É quase um ensaio crítico de David Runciman ao livro "Mourinho: Anatomy of a Winner", de Patrick Barclay. Runciman é professor de Política e analisa o fenómeno Mourinho nas suas várias vertentes. O texto é longo, mas vale bem a pena, até porque é cativante e se lê com extrema facilidade. Um excerto, precisamente o que o Terceiro Anel escolheu:

"There is little enough that it is possible to control on a football pitch anyway – it has been estimated that only 5 per cent of the action is exclusively subject to the differential skills of the players and the tactics of the team, the rest being shaped by such chance or inconsequential factors as the bounce of the ball – without sacrificing what advantages you have to romantic impulses. Everything suggests that as a manager, Mourinho (...) is neither romantic nor impulsive. His teams are well-organised, highly disciplined and give nothing away. Five per cent might not be much, but if you squeeze every drop of advantage out of the things you can control over the course of a season you will grind your opponents down. The key is not to be distracted by all the nonsense that wafts around the other 95 per cent, much of which gets reported as fact (...)"

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