Soccer tips Mourinho confirmed the story about the laundry basket

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Almost 14 years later, Jose Mourinho finally admitted that it was true the whole story about hiding him in a laundry basket in Chelsea`s dressing room in the spring of 2005. It`s about the first match by soccer-insider-tips of the 1/4-finals in the Champions League againstBayern (Munich), for which the Portuguese was punished. He did not have the right to give directions and to make a spree at his team. At noon I went to Stamford Bridge`s dressing room and the fight started at 19:00, Josh told beIN Sports. `No one saw me as I sneaked. The problem, however, was how I would go out, because everywhere there were people from UEFA who were looking for me. So the host of the team, Stewart Bannister, pushed me into the basket with dirty teams and left me a very small hole for breathing. I`d really be choking, I`d die, it`s true.


Mourinho spends almost the entire meeting in the dressing room, where he watches the happening on a small TV. From there he keeps in touch with his assistant, Rui Faria, who stands on the bench with a hidden headset and listens to the manager`s instructions. But in the first half, journalists have called on UEFA`s representatives that Faria, at that time only with a hat on the bench, was constantly scrambling around the ear, and he was actually tapping the handset.

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