Jos� M�rio dos Santos F�lix Mourinho, GOIH (Order of Prince Henry) (IPA-pt?u?z? mo??i?u; born 26 January 1963 in Set�bal, Portugal), is a Portuguese football (association football) manager (manager (football)). He is the current manager of Italian (Italy) Serie A team Internazionale (F.C. Internazionale Milano). He has the nickname "The Special One", a self-proclaimed title which was later taken up by the British media. The son of Portuguese goalkeeper Jos� F�lix Mourinho (Jos� Manuel F�lix Mourinho), Mourinho started out as a player but he was dissatisfied with his lack of skill and switched to management. After spells working as an assistant manager and a youth team coach in the early 1990s, he became an interpreter for Sir Bobby Robson. There, Mourinho learnt much from the veteran coach and worked with him at Sporting Lisbon (Sporting Clube de Portugal), Porto (F.C. Porto) in Portugal, before following him to Spanish club Barcelona (FC Barcelona).

He began focusing on coaching and impressed with brief but successful managerial periods at Benfica (S.L. Benfica) and Uni�o de Leiria (U.D. Leiria). He returned to Porto in 2002, this time as head coach, and soon became a force to be reckoned with, winning the Portuguese Liga, Cup of Portugal and UEFA Cup in 2003. Greater success followed in 2004 as Mourinho guided the team to the top of the league for a second time and won the highest honour in European club football, the UEFA Champions League.

Mourinho moved to Chelsea (Chelsea F.C.) the following year and won two consecutive Premier League titles in 2005 and 2006, among other domestic honours. He often courted controversy for his outspokenness, but his victories at Chelsea and Porto established him as one of the worlds top football managers, well regarded by both his peers and the press. Additionally, he was named the worlds best football manager by the International Federation of Football History and Statistics (IFFHS) for both the 2004-05 and 2005-06 seasons.

After a fall-out with the Chelsea hierarchy, he moved to Italys Serie A, signing a three-year contract with Internazionale (F.C. Internazionale Milano) in mid-2008. Within three months, he had won his first Italian honour, the Supercoppa Italiana, and completed his first season in Italy by winning the Serie A league title (Serie A 2008-09). He then followed that up the following year by winning the first "treble" in Italian history, the Serie A league title, Coppa Italia and the UEFA Champions League, thus becoming the third manager in football history to win two UEFA Champions League with two different teams, after Ernst Happel and Ottmar Hitzfeld.