Magical Mourinho: Porto’s 2003-04 journey to UEFA Champions League glory
Two matchdays into the 2003-04 UEFA Champions League, FC Porto and their new dynamic coach Jose Mourinho looked in a spot of bother. After opening the campaign with a 1-1 draw away to Partizan Belgrade, they slumped to a 3-1 home defeat to Real Madrid. But their fortunes changed on matchday three when they got the best of Didier Drogba’s Marseille in a dramatic five-goal thriller. Subsequent home wins over Partizan and the French club saw them stroll into the last 16.
The Last 16 saw Porto face Manchester United as Europe’s bright new coach, Jose Mourinho, went up against ‘the boss’ Sir Alex Ferguson. After two goals from Benni McCarthy gave the Portuguese a 2-1 victory at the Dragao, Porto went to Old Trafford for a night that would provide one of the defining images of their young coach’s transformation into the Special One. A goal down, and heading out on away goals, as the game ticked into stoppage time, Costinha pounced on a mistake by United goalkeeper Tim Howard to grab a dramatic tie-winner. Mourinho set off down the touchline to join the celebrations in the corner, much to the annoyance of the home crowd.
Next up for Mou and his merry men was a quarter-final clash with now UEFA Champions League stalwarts Lyon. Goals from Deco and Ricardo Carvalho gave Porto a 2-0 home victory in the first leg. The return leg in France saw midfielder Maniche become the star of the show, as the Portugal international netted twice to secure Porto their first European Cup/Champions League semi-final in a decade.
The other quarter-finals had seen the likes of Arsenal, Milan and Real Madrid suffer surprise eliminations from the tournament, leaving Mourinho’s future club, big-spending Chelsea, as the favourites. Porto met Deportivo La Coruna in the final four, after the Spanish club had made UCL history by overturning a 4-1 first-leg defeat to Milan. After a goalless draw in Portugal, a Derlei penalty in Spain sent Super Depor packing and booked Porto’s place in the final.
A season of UCL shocks ended up pitting Porto against Monaco in the final, after Chelsea had been dumped out in the Principality. But the Ligue 1 side were simply no match for Mourinho’s side in Gelsenkirchen. Brazilian forward Carlos Alberto opened the scoring five minutes before half time, and second-half goals from Deco and Dmitri Alenichev completed a comprehensive 3-0 victory to secure an unlikely title for Mourinho, who would go on to become of one of Europe’s greatest ever coaches.
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Crazy to see how they invented cameras with three times better quality between the semifinals and the final. Thank you Mou for this!
mourinho better than guardiola
I ❤ special 1?
From Porto to Inter Milan ??
Seeing my fellow South African, Benni McCarthy, sink the mighty Man United, is pure gold!!!
I couldn’t understand. How Porto go to final. They lose with deportivo?
Champions League won by a non-top 5 league club is likely not going to happen in many, many years. Jose achieved something almost impossible. What a legend.
Chelsea 2005 is basically porto 2.0 so many porto player move to chelsea after this including the coach
That Lyon team was stacked back when French teams did well in competing in europe
2004 and 2016 were the worst champions leagues
porto under mourinho in 2004 were the worst team to ever win the european cup
Super lucky
that Porto team was just too good.
Winning champions league, with eufa league contender
16:56 wtf goal keeping was that?
can pep or klop win ucl with porto
Attention y a bcoup de mensonges j ai pas confiance
He did what some man in Man city has been unable to do with 100 billion dollars every season,, he i a legend.
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Final tak Terduga??
Outside top 4 leagues – marseille and porto are only teams that won champions league. Sad reality of decades of favoritism of top 4 leagues by uefa.
Fun fact – Carlos Alberto only achievement in european football was this goal in the final. The guy never made any career in europe.
3:05 when mourinho found out about Drogba.
Porto = 2 Champions
City after 1000 millions= Nothing
Psg after other 1000 millions: Nothing
Facts.
2004 should have been arsenal year
He is a special one .
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Yose morinjo
Carlos Alberto….
If you call yourself the special one you arent the special one
That's mourhino…Porto fans..shud thank him..that .they have UCL win in name becoz of Jose !!
Special one ?
My favorite sports personality EVER period. What a character !!!
Back when Portuguese teams had Portuguese players. Annnnd of course Chelsea steals most of them and wins something.
Also Mourinho is a legend but that Porto team had among the best players in the world. Look where they all went after. It was the perfect storm.
Porto just destroyed monaco in that final
Morinho believed in Africa.
Got thrashed by real Madrid and still won the cup. Phenomenal
03/04 was legit ?
fav coach?❤️
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