Jose Mourinho, who has just signed for Turkish club Fenerbahçe, located in Lisbon to witness the Portugal-Croatia friendly this Saturday in Jamor. The coach exercised as host for the Balkan team upon arrival in the capital of the Tagus. Mou met with the coach Zlatko Dalic with his assistant Mario Mandzukic, former striker who played for Atlético; with the goalkeeper Dominik Livakovic, who will train in Istanbul; and with Luka Modricwhich he took to Real Madrid in 2012.
Luka’s beginnings as a target were not easy but Mourinho always supported him unconditionally. So much so that during the Lisbon meeting they remembered the technician’s request to Madrid fans 12 years ago. Some phrases that have become the most accurate prediction: “Everything I ask of the Madrid fans is to give Modric a little time and patience. It’s so good that he Santiago Bernabéu will fall in love from his class”. More than a decade later, Luka has become one of the great idols in Chamartín and of those largely responsible for the merengue club having collected another bunch of trophies.
Modric gave Mourinho a gift a signed white t-shirt. And then he posted the moment on social media at the same time as renamed the Portuguese, known as “The Special One” since his early days in the Premier League: “Always a pleasure to see you, mister. Eternally grateful. Special and Real One.”
In addition to that initial support at the Santiago Bernabéu, the Setúbal coach has not stopped collecting praise for Luka, the last of which was a few weeks ago: “Modric is the beauty of football and a source of pride for me: I brought him to Madrid when no one believed they could to be a player for Real Madrid and he has already been there for 12 years.”
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