MADRID \u2014 In an unusual ceremony closed to the media and fans, Real Madrid officially presented coach Jos\u00e9 Mourinho on Tuesday.<\/p>\n
The event took place at the club’s headquarters in Madrid, with president Florentino P\u00e9rez welcoming the coach.<\/p>\n
The only images of the presentation were provided by Real Madrid TV and the club’s website and social media accounts.<\/p>\n
\u201cI’m one of you,\u201d Mourinho said in a message to fans in a video released by the club. \u201cAnd not just today, but since I arrived in 2010 and after I left in 2013, always with you. … To return to Real Madrid is to return home.\u201d<\/p>\n
Madrid said the coach was signed for three seasons until June 30, 2029.<\/p>\n
After the signing, Madrid said Mourinho received a replica of the stadium, a watch and a jersey with his name.<\/p>\n
Madrid has been revamped after a second consecutive season without a major title. In addition to Mourinho, who replaced \u00c1lvaro Arbeloa, the club also brought in players such as Marc Cucurella, Ibrahima Konat\u00e9, Denzel Dumfries, Bernardo Silva and Yan Diomande.<\/p>\n
Kylian Mbapp\u00e9, Vin\u00edcius J\u00fanior and Jude Bellingham will lead the squad again as it tries to keep Barcelona from winning a third straight La Liga title.<\/p>\n
Mourinho was hired in June and officially took over in July at the start of the preseason.<\/p>\n
He is back for a second stint with Madrid some 13 years after he left the club. He was in charge from 2010-13, winning a Spanish league and a Copa del Rey. He was more remembered for his confrontational personality that ended up splitting his own squad and alienating all but the most hardcore fans, as well as a large part of the local media.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MADRID \u2014 In an unusual ceremony closed to the media and fans, Real Madrid officially presented coach Jos\u00e9…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":72180,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[82,1743,5534],"class_list":["post-72179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-madrid","tag-madrid","tag-soccer","tag-wires-bot"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72179","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72179"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72179\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/72180"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}