JOSE MOURINHO has revealed he and Pep Guardiola emotionally consoled each over the deaths of their parents.
Mourinho and Guardiola have spent much of their managerial careers in direct competition with each other in Spain and England.
Tempers boiled over in games between Barcelona and Real Madrid and the rivalry in charge of the two Manchester clubs kept the temperature hot.
But, last year, Mourinho revealed there is a secret side the world is unlikely to see.
In February 2021, the Special One said: “Football matches, football problems if you want to call them – for me, I’m from the generation where what happens in a football match stays in the football match and I have only positive feelings and good respect.