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Nuggets and ‘pisang goreng’ in football coaches’ pressure-cooker world

By T. Avineshwaran

“I AM a coach. I’m not Harry Potter. He is magical, but in reality, there is no magic. Magic is fiction and football is real.”

That’s a quote by Jose Mourinho, one of his many nuggets that make interviewing him a sheer pleasure.

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T. Avineshwaran

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