Jose Mourinho's personality makes you either love him or hate him, there are no gray areas when it comes to his behavior with people. There are some football personalities who have been madly in love with his work ethic, and then have quickly changed their mind when they know him as a person. A good example could be his relationship with compatriot Andre-Vilas Boas, who had a fall out with the manager and soon started his career as a coach.
Talking at the Aspire4Sport congress in Amsterdam, he revealed that: "In my formative moments working with Jose [I had] the best time of my life. I was able to learn many things and working with him takes you to another level. You fall in love with him and he becomes your idol. I wanted to be like him, know everything that he knew and absorb all the information he was giving.
"Then you fall on the wrong side of Jose and that's when things change and you realize that you've been blinded by someone. He has this fascinating capability of getting the best out of you, which has good or bad consequences for people. My consequences were that as a result of the argument or disagreement we had, I started my coaching career."
Villas-Boas also recognized he was wildly inexperienced when he took the Chelsea job: "The Chelsea experience was too much too soon. I wasn't flexible as a manager at that time. I was communicative, but I wasn't flexible in my approach. At Tottenham I learned to be different. In professional football you have to live day-to-day. The objective is the group performance, but every single individual requires a different response from a manager – you can't be the same person to each player. At Chelsea, the group was more important, I stuck to my methods too much."
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