José Manuel Mourinho Félix (12 February 1938 – 25 June 2017), known as Félix Mourinho, was a Portuguese

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and

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Playing career

Mourinho was born in

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. He played 19 seasons as a professional, making his

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debut in 1955–56 with

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. He spent 13 campaigns with the

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side, helping them win two Portuguese Cups and appearing in as many

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editions. Before 1968–69 started, Mourinho signed for fellow league club

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, finishing in a personal best-ever second position in his fifth season – with the subsequent

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to the

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– and retiring in June of the following year at the age of 36. He earned one

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for the Portugal national team, coming on as a substitute for Benfica's

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in the dying minutes of a 2–1 win against the

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in the 1972

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Coaching career

Mourinho started coaching on a full basis in 1976 (he had worked as an assistant with Belenenses, while still an active player). His first spell in the top tier was in 1980–81 with Amora, which he had led to promotion as champions the previous year. He left the team midway through the campaign and rejoined the Segunda Liga with

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, achieving the same feat after winning seven matches in 11. Mourinho's only full seasons in the top flight were 1981–82 and 1983–84, leading Rio Ave to the fifth place in the former and the final of the domestic cup in the latter. The former saw his son

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involved with the squad for the first time, and he was also usually tasked with scouting other teams for his father when not playing for the reserves. Mourinho rarely selected his son, but on the final day of the campaign against champions-elect

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, a defender was injured in the pre-match warm up, so he told his son to get changed. However, president José Maria Pinho, fearing the threat of nepotism, overruled the decision to do so; the incident saw the pair leave the club to join Belenenses the following summer – before that, the manager was considered for the Portugal job, but he was passed over for

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. Mourinho returned to Rio Ave in 1983, but was sacked on Christmas Day 1984 after the team went on a bad run and lost to

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. In the mid-to-late 1990s, he twice came to the rescue of Vitória Setúbal, with top-division relegation befalling in

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as they only won twice in his 12 games in charge.

Personal life

Mourinho married Maria Júlia Carrajola dos Santos (born 1939), a teacher, and had two children, Teresa (1960–1996) and

. The latter went on to become one of the most renowned and successful football managers of his era.

Death

Mourinho died on 25 June 2017 in

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, at the age of 79.

Honours

Player

Vitória Setúbal *

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: 1964–65, 1966–67; runner-up: 1961–62, 1965–66, 1967–68

Manager

Amora *

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: 1979–80 Rio Ave *Taça de Portugal runner-up: 1983–84

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