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If Mario Balotelli Is A Milan Fan Then Pato Supports Inter - Jose Mourinho

The trainer spoke about all things Nerazzurri, looking ahead to their Serie A and Champions League campaigns...

Nov 19, 2009 7:15:54 PM

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Inter coach Jose Mourinho has opined on his team's chances in all three competitions this season, and believes that it will be almost impossible to emulate Barcelona by winning the treble.

"In order to win the league, the Champions League and the Coppa Italia, you need luck. You also need to have an absolutely fantastic squad and have an absolutely perfect season," he mused in an interview with Inter Channel.

"[The Champions League] is such a difficult competition, in which you face teams with so much quality, I cannot say whether it's better to end the group stage in first or second place."

Mourinho was recently in the newspapers over claims that he wanted to succeed Sir Alex Ferguson as manager of Manchester United, and he took the opportunity to distance himself from the claims again.

"I never told The Times anything about my future. Am I the Ferguson of Inter? The Latin culture is different - do you think if I hadn't won anything for two consecutive years, the relationship between me and the fans would be the same?"

'The Special One' also laughed about Mario Balotelli's joke that he was a Milan fan. Nerazzurri captain Javier Zanetti has claimed that Balotelli should go down to Milanello for some autographs, and the Portuguese tactician was similarly light-hearted over the incident.

"If he supports Milan, then Pato is an interista... All jokes aside, I don't think Mario is responsible for this sort of thing, which I would call naive."

Anthony Wright, Goal.com

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