French "L'Equipe" recently interviewed Nantes head coach Luis Castro. In the interview, Castro talked about the great influence Mourinho had on him as a Portuguese.

In the interview, the reporter asked, Mourinho has opened up new horizons for coaches like Castro. Would he have given up his career as a physical education teacher without this "special one"?

"It's hard to say," admitted the Nantes coach. "Mourinho changed the paradigm of Portuguese football. He won the Champions League with Porto (2004) and the league title (2005) that the club had been waiting for 50 years with Chelsea. And he did it in our Portuguese way. With him With success, we are sure that this approach can yield results at the highest level and everywhere. Suddenly it opens more doors for the Portuguese,” even for those who, like him, came from a university background and originally considered coaching only as a “hobby.”

Castro also talked about the adaptability of coaching the team and the progress of the coach.

Castro went to Dunkirk rather than stay in the Portuguese top flight. This is to test "our first quality - adaptability. Adaptation to the players we have. But also adapting to the times. I am not at all the same coach as I was ten years ago because I am improving and learning. Mourinho at Porto (one of the best teams I have ever seen) is different from Mourinho at Chelsea, and Mourinho at Inter Milan is very different from Mourinho at all other periods."