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Titolo: La verità di Mourinho la spiega Terry: e tutti abboccano

"Jose gave us that mentality of 'us against the rest' and it helped bind
us together"
"Jose ci ha dato la mentalit� del "noi contro il resto del mondo" e questo
ci ha aiutati ad unirci"
Per chi capisce l'inglese � molto utile per capire meglio Mourinho:
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/sport/football/2865903/Jose-made-us-into-a-team.html
JOSE MOURINHO taught John Terry how to take on the rest of the world - and
win.
Mourinho shaped modern Chelsea with his belligerence, bloody-mindedness
and downright refusal to roll over.
Chelsea captain Terry learnt at the hand of his master and remains the
single biggest symbol of a team which boasts ambition and hunger
unrivalled by any of the big European teams.
Ex-Blues boss Mourinho has moved on to Inter Milan, where he is
reconstructing the Stamford Bridge model with dramatic effects.
Tonight the two worlds collide and two men for whom controversy and
commitment have become bywords will be reunited - not as friends but in
opposition for the chance to reach the Champions League quarter-finals.
Chelsea have moved on with Italian Carlo Ancelotti the fourth full-time
manager since Mourinho's explosive era made everyone sit up and take
notice of a short, Portuguese bloke not short on self-confidence.
And Terry, 29, said: "He IS the Special One.
"Jose was the first one who referred to us as 'his' players. He brought us
together with that.
"After Roman Abramovich took over the club, we were unpopular to say the
least. People on the outside accused us of just trying to buy success.
"Mourinho was an overnight success with the players. When he arrived we
were a nearly team. We'd finished as Premier League runners- up and not
really got there.
"But he made a team out of a bunch of individuals and didn't care whether
people liked us.
"Jose gave us that mentality of 'us against the rest' and it helped bind
us together.
"He would always ask after our families, our kids - but he also kept that
distance.
"Carlo does the same. He's a great man manager but there's a line and you
don't cross it. It's very much the boss and us but it's what we respond to
and Carlo's a great boss."
The aftershocks of Mourinho's siege mentality are still being felt at
Stamford Bridge.
Whatever gets thrown at the players or the team, it somehow responds in a
way many others would struggle to match.
Chelsea are four points clear of Manchester United at the top of the
Premier League after yet another turbulent spell off the pitch.
Adversity becomes fuel for the adrenalin burned up by the players on the
pitch in pursuit of professional glory.
Mourinho's team over in Milan bears the same hallmarks. He has just picked
up a three-game touchline ban over gestures towards officials.
Inter scraped a 0-0 draw against Sampdoria at the weekend with only nine
men and recently scored a seismic 2-0 win over city and ground rivals AC
Milan, Ancelotti's old team.
Terry added: "Training with him was so fluent. It might only be one hour,
but it was one hour solid. You moved swiftly from one exercise to another
and then a small-sided game.
"He even introduced ballboys for those five-a-sides and, as soon as the
ball went out, it had to be back in play as quickly as possible. If it
wasn't, the ballboys would get hammered.
"The end result was that everyone in the team knew his job. Sometimes we
would even train as if we had had two men sent off.
"We would play nine against 11. I don't think many other managers did
that. But he wanted to be prepared for every eventuality and we learnt how
to cope and to be stronger.
"He worked terrifically hard. Everyone has heard about the dossiers and
the files he had when he first arrived - the codes of conduct.
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"Before games he also used to write up scouting reports on the opposition,
individual reports for us to study ahead of the game.
"They were placed in our pigeon holes at the training ground and then he
would send a member of staff around after training to check up on who had
taken his homework home.
"I remember against Fulham when Shaun Wright-Phillips and Joe Cole were
substituted early on because we were struggling so much.
"They were very upset but Jose had this way of making them want to play
for him again. They understood it had been done for the team."
Terry was already a firmly-established favourite when Mourinho took over
from Claudio Ranieri in June 2004.
Petr Cech, Michael Essien, Didier Drogba and Ashley Cole were soon to
follow the charismatic Mourinho to West London and create a dynasty that
is now on course for Premier League glory and a first Champions League
title.
Terry said: "Jose said once that you don't have to be the best team and
you can still win the Champions League. In the last four or five years, we
have found that out. We have been the better team yet still got knocked
out.
"It reminds me of a World Cup, where you need that little bit of luck on
your side to come away with the glory.
"Knowing how thorough he was at Chelsea, he'll have done his homework but
he also knows us well enough. We're not exactly strangers.
"Carlo is determined to win this game. He too has a great reputation in
the Champions League - as a player and a manager.
"It's not Carlo's team we are playing but it's his backyard at the San
Siro. I want to go back there too and win it for Chelsea - no matter how
special Jose is to me and Chelsea fans."
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NY32
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 ci ha aiutati ad unirci"
cosa non vera, basta vedere che è l'unico o quasi 
ad aver portato solidarietà al povero Ferrara,
e non è l'unico caso che ricordo, anzi