Ruben Amorim: Have Man United Found Their Special One?
It Was What It Was : The Football History Podcast
The Overlap
4.9 • 667 Ratings
🗓️ 26 November 2024
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Summary
This week. It Was What It Was asks: What is it with Portuguese football?
With Ruben Amorim arriving at Manchester United, there are now as many Premier League managers from Portugal as from England coaching this season.
Portugal also has the fourth highest-quota of Premier League players (after England, Brazil and France). For a nation of just over 10 million, it consistently punches above its weight.
Amorim’s rise to one of the biggest jobs in world football is located in the reform of Portuguese football in the 1980s - and specifically in the university faculty that helps turn out some of the world’s best coaches.
Join Jonathan and Rob as we go back to school with Ruben Amorim, speaking to the mentors who forged him as a coach. It's a journey that takes in Jose Mourinho, Cristiano Ronaldo and super agent Jorge Mendes.
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| 0:00.0 | We have top players and I'm sorry, I'm a bit arrogant. |
| 0:11.9 | We have a top manager. |
| 0:14.0 | To win the Champions League, Porto has to beat Partisan Belgrade. |
| 0:18.4 | Real Madrid, Marseille, Olympic Leon, Manchester United. |
| 0:23.7 | Again, please don't call me arrogant. |
| 0:26.7 | Because of what I'm saying, it's true. |
| 0:29.0 | I'm European champion. |
| 0:31.1 | I'm not one out of a bottle. |
| 0:33.4 | I'm a special one. |
| 0:36.1 | I'm Jonathan Wilson. I'm with Rob Draper. And that, of course, was Jason Marino as he joined Chelsea in 2004. Today, on It Was What It Was, the Football History podcast, we're going to be discussing another Portuguese manager, Ruben Amarim, who's just taken charge of his first game as Manchester United manager. I'm going to be looking at his background where he came from. |
| 1:00.0 | And really the key point, I think, is why are we in this great era of Portuguese coaching, which probably begins with Jason Marino? |
| 1:04.1 | So, Rob, where are we going to start? |
| 1:06.5 | We're going to look at the three Portuguese coaches in the Premier League at the moment? |
| 1:09.9 | Well, yeah, I just think it's worth recapping the fact that Portuguese, if not dominant, |
| 1:14.9 | are really punching above their weight as a small European football nation. |
| 1:19.8 | So welcome Ruben Amram to the Premier League. |
| 1:22.2 | I think we're recording this just before he's played his first game. |
| 1:24.7 | So he's either a complete genius and Portuguese coaches are |
| 1:27.6 | fantastic or he's a complete idiot. And this is way overcooked this podcast and, you know, |
| 1:33.7 | there's nothing in it at all. However, there are three Portuguese coaches in Marco Silver, |
| 1:39.6 | Nuno Spiriteau and now Ruben Amarine. But also we've had Bruno Laj, we've had Andrews Villersbours, |
| 1:46.1 | Carlos Cavahal, and obviously Carlos Kios was the assistant coach of Manchin United for a long time, |
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