Chelsea boss Jose Mourinho was delighted after finally ending a three-year wait for a trophy and admitted that he felt like a kid again before the final.
The Portuguese was in joyous mood, but did not forget to commiserate Chelsea’s opponents Tottenham and their manager Mauricio Pochettino who he has a good relationship with, “First of all I want to say that in the middle of my happiness is space to think about Mauricio Pochettino, his staff and Tottenham as a team and a club,a said the Blues boss. a I met him in Spain many years ago as a player and then when he was a young manager when I was at Real Madrid. He came to England, proved himself, nobody gave him anything for free.
“He did fantastic work at Southampton, came to a big club like Tottenham and is building a fantastic team. They gave us a hard final, they made us be humble and think about the game strategically.”
Mourinho then went on and revealed that it was hard for him to go three years without a trophy despite building a good team, “For me ita s important to feel like Ia m a kid, before the game I had the same feelings as my first final. Ita s important to feel the same happiness after the game. I know I have a team to build, which is what we are doing but ita s difficult for me to live without winning things even if we are doing the work to be stable for many years. Ita s important for me, the boys and for the club ita s another cup.
“Ita s the first trophy for a new group of players. You have Cech, Terry and Drogba but after that everyone belongs to a new group of players, so for the team ita s very important.
Chelsea’s rivals for the League, Manchester City, lost their game against Liverpool, and Mourinho admitted that despite the result being a positive one for the blues, he tried to keep his side focussed on the final, ” The perfect day was to win the final. I prepared them for an impossible mission, which was to not know the Man City result. I didna t want a television in the hotel or on the bus. I didna t want any reactions to that, we were successful, but one member of my staff, Silvinho, jumped up on the bus. I wanted to kill the guy, a member of my own staff broke the rule. I wanted to stop them having a reaction and focus on what they had to do, we had a very difficult job against Tottenham”