{"id":82515,"date":"2026-09-08T10:49:10","date_gmt":"2026-09-08T10:49:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/82515\/"},"modified":"2026-09-08T10:49:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-08T10:49:10","slug":"real-madrid-faces-inter-milan-in-the-champions-league-with-jose-mourinho-aiming-for-another-title-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/82515\/","title":{"rendered":"Real Madrid faces Inter Milan in the Champions League with Jose Mourinho aiming for another title"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-0a453225=\"\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/soccer\/real-madrid-team\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Real Madrid<\/a> kicks off its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/soccer\/champions-league\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Champions League<\/a> campaign against Inter Milan on Tuesday, with new coach Jose Mourinho aiming to win the trophy for a third time. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-0a453225=\"\">Mourinho is back at Madrid for a second spell after last managing the club in from 2010-13. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-0a453225=\"\">He won a league title and the Spanish cup during that time, but not the Champions League. Since then Madrid has gone on to dominate European club soccer&#8217;s biggest trophy, winning it six more times and extending its record to 15 titles. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-0a453225=\"\">And while another Champions League would see Mourinho join Pep Guardiola, Luis Enrique, Zinedine Zidane and Bob Paisley on three wins, he doesn&#8217;t feel the need to make up for the fact that he was unable to lift the trophy when he was last at Madrid. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-0a453225=\"\">\u201cI finished my work here in 2013. We won what we won, and we lost what we lost. We gave everything, but it\u2019s a closed chapter,\u201d Mourinho said. \u201cThis has nothing to do with the past \u2014 absolutely nothing. These are two different moments in Real Madrid\u2019s history. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-0a453225=\"\">\u201cIn 2010, they hadn\u2019t reached the quarterfinals in years, nor had they played a semifinal in many years. Now, it\u2019s a Real Madrid that has won in the last 10 years. These are two different moments, but it doesn\u2019t change my way of thinking. If you ask me if I\u2019m excited about winning the Champions League with Real Madrid, obviously yes, but completely separate from any context of not having achieved it previously.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-0a453225=\"\">Madrid hosts Mourinho\u2019s former club Inter at the Santiago Bernabeu. Mourinho won the Champions League with Inter in 2010, having previously won with Porto in 2004. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-0a453225=\"\">\u201cI want to win, and there won\u2019t be time to think about things from a very beautiful past,\u201d Mourinho said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-0a453225=\"\">Among other Champions League games on Tuesday, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/soccer\/manchester-city-team\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Manchester City<\/a> travels to Porto. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-0a453225=\"\">___<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-0a453225=\"\">James Robson is at https:\/\/x.com\/jamesalanrobson<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-0a453225=\"\">___<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-0a453225=\"\">See AP\u2019s full soccer coverage here<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Real Madrid kicks off its Champions League campaign against Inter Milan on Tuesday, with new coach Jose Mourinho&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":71027,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[643,15030,82,1101,7356,83,1236],"class_list":["post-82515","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-madrid","tag-event_recap","tag-fc-porto","tag-madrid","tag-man-city","tag-primeira-liga","tag-real-madrid","tag-uefa-champions-league"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82515","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=82515"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82515\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/71027"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82515"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}