LISBON – Real Madrid boss Jose Mourinho on Sunday ruled out the prospect of becoming a national team manager after being refused permission to take temporary charge of his native Portugal in the autumn.
Mourinho had been approached to replace Carlos Queiroz, but Real blocked the approach and Paulo Bento eventually took full-time charge of the national side. It was a development which the former Inter Milan and Chelsea boss described as his “greatest frustration of 2010”.
“I believe that I will never coach a national team because it’s a question of mentality, of personality,” Mourinho told Portuguese media.
Mourinho rules out national team duty
