Business Or Pleasure For Mourinho In Brazil?
Was it for purely personal footballing watching reasons that Chelsea boss Jose Mourinho was in Brazil watching the game between Corinthians and Argentina’s River Plate in the Copa Libertadores last Thursday? He claims that now the Premiership is over (note to Jose: still one game to go, title in the bag or not), he is free to globetrot and take in whatever games he pleases especially top matches in the South American version of the Champion’s League and up to a point I would have to believe him.
If I was a multi-millionaire football manager then the opportunity to travel to these games would be a fabulous perk of the job and I wouldn’t need any excuse to jet to Sao Paulo to catch such a high profile game between two of South American football’s giants (the game was abandoned due to crowd trouble mind you so that might cool my ardour before I get a ticket booked for the rematch).
The thing that has caught the attention of the watching football world however is the fact that Carlos Tevez, Argentina’s great young hope, plays for Corinthians and there have long been allegations of shady connections between the owners of Corinthians and Chelsea’s Russian owner Roman Abramovich.
Football watchers being suspicious by nature then put two and two together with the obvious result of thinking that Mouronho was scouting Tevez. He denies it, Kia Joorabchian who fronts the company behind Corinthians denies it and somehow no one really believes them.
For a little bit more of the Corinthians / Abramovich story take a look at this fantastic article by the web’s greatest football writer which digs a little deeper.
Interesting reading even if I do say so myself ;-)
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May 12, 2006 at 11:01 am
[...] Looks like I was well on top of the news last week with my post about Jose Mourinho in Brazil supposedly checking out Carlos Tevez from Corinthians. [...]
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