‘A serial winner who has brought Roma to life,’ says Jose Mourinho.

Jose Mourinho has achieved more in his spectacular managerial career, but Roma’s Europa Conference League victory brought him to tears when the ‘Special One’ won the Italian club their first major European prize.

Some have criticised Europe’s third-tier club competition, but for Mourinho, the win over Feyenoord was as as significant as his two Champions League titles with Porto in 2004 and Inter Milan in 2010.

Mourinho becomes the first manager in history to win all three major European competitions, with five victories in five European finals.

“Football is about winning, and Mourinho wins,” Owen Hargreaves, a former Manchester United midfielder, stated.

“He’s a serial winner, and he’s given this Roma team life.”

This was Mourinho’s 26th title as a manager, coming 19 years after he oversaw Porto’s Uefa Cup victory in 2003.

He was named Roma manager in May of last year, and he was tasked with rebuilding the team following a disastrous seventh-place finish in Serie A in 2020-21.

“Mourinho stated that winning the trophy was not part of the strategy.” “The idea was to construct this team; that was the beginning of the project,” Joe Cole, a former Chelsea player under Mourinho, told.

Roma’s path to the final was not without incident, with the Portuguese facing criticism after an ugly 6-1 loss to Bodo/Glimt in the group stage last October.