{"id":2020,"date":"2026-06-08T12:14:04","date_gmt":"2026-06-08T12:14:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/?p=2020"},"modified":"2026-06-08T12:14:04","modified_gmt":"2026-06-08T12:14:04","slug":"revealed-the-unfinished-business-that-returned-jose-mourinho-to-real-madrid-with-the-special-one-determined-to-scratch-annoying-trophy-itch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/?p=2020","title":{"rendered":"Revealed: The \u2018unfinished business\u2019 that returned Jose Mourinho to Real Madrid &#8211; with the \u2018Special One\u2019 determined to scratch annoying trophy itch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-testid=\"article-body\" data-affiliate-button-variant=\"B\">\n<div>\n<p style=\"text-align:start\"><span>While Mourinho&#8217;s first spell at the Bernabeu between 2010 and 2013 is remembered for breaking domestic records and ending Barcelona\u2019s dominance, it was ultimately defined by a sense of what might have been. Despite reaching three consecutive Champions League semi-finals, the Portuguese never managed to hoist the famous trophy with Los Blancos, leaving behind a nagging feeling of &#8220;unfinished business.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:start\"><span>The veteran coach is now set to take charge again following <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/goal.com\/en\/lists\/jose-mourinho-real-madrid-150m-galactico-florentino-perez-president\/blt5d61cb3792031099\" target=\"_blank\" data-affiliate-type=\"NONE\"><span>Perez\u2019s re-election<\/span><\/a><span>. For Mourinho, the opportunity to return is primarily about scratching that continental itch. Having won the Champions League with Porto and Inter, the challenge of doing so in Madrid is understood to be the primary factor that\u00a0convinced him to accept the role\u00a0once more, according to <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/as.com\/futbol\/primera\/mourinho-es-inminente-si-por-supuesto-f202606-n\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-affiliate-type=\"NONE\"><i><em>AS<\/em><\/i><\/a><span>.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While Mourinho&#8217;s first spell at the Bernabeu between 2010 and 2013 is remembered for breaking domestic records and ending Barcelona\u2019s&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2021,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2020","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sport"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2020","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2020"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2020\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2021"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}