AS Roma manager Jose Mourinho was inducted into the Italian “Hall of Fame” by the Italian Football Federation (FIGC), which recognises those who have made a lasting impact on sport.
Mourinho still continues to be popular well into this modern era of footballers, even though we still relish his glory days when he used to coach FC Porto as well as Chelsea.
The former Real Madrid coach managed to win a lot of trophies and even lifted a Champions League trophy with FC Porto as well as Inter Milan.
Mourinho’s philosophy is to win at all costs. He doesn’t care for attractive football. He is very result oriented.
Italian footballer Gianfranco Zola, international player Zinedine Zidane, retired Italian footballer Alessandro Altobelli, Italian footballer Cristiana Girelli, Italian coach Ernesto Pellegrini, Sinia Mihajlovi, and Erno Egri Erbstein are on the list of those in ducted.
Cristiana Girelli, Alessandro Altobelli, and Ernesto Pellegrini are among those who have received the same honour, as well as the “Memory Award,” given to the recently passed away Serbian coach Sinisa Mihajlovic, Erno Egri Erbstein, and Mario Sconcerti, and the “Fair-Play” given to the young referee Luca Martelli.
The “Special Award” was awarded to another master of Italian sports journalism, Mario Sconcerti, who died three months ago.
While the “Fair Play” award, named after Davide Astori, went to Luca Martelli, a young Tuscan referee who in 2022, while directing a match, interrupted the game to go and help his own father, supporter in the stands, helping to save his life with the help of a defibrillator.
New members of the “Italian Football Hall of Fame” will be invited to deliver a piece of history from their career intended for the collection of the Football Museum on the moment of the awards ceremony, which is expected to take place in the upcoming months.
