‘I told him ‘f**k you’ Marco Materazzi reveals parting words to Jose Mourinho
‘I told him ‘f**k you’ – because he left me with Benitez!’: Former Inter Milan star Marco Materazzi reveals his parting words to Jose Mourinho after the Portuguese boss left the club to join Real Madrid in 2010
- Inter Milan won the European treble in 2010 under Jose Mourinho
- The manager left the club that summer to manage Real Madrid
- Marco Materazzi has revealed the boss’s final farewell
Former Internazionale and Italy centre-back Marco Materazzi has revealed that he parted ways with Jose Mourinho after leaving the San Siro in 2010.
It came after the Nerazzurri’s historic treble under the Portuguese boss that saw them win their first European trophy since the 1960s, along with the Serie A title and the Copa Italia.
“Mourinho was special, he knew the names of all our children and our wives,” Materazzi said of the Roma boss in a recent interview with Italian football television.
“No one else had ever done that for me. It wasn’t a big surprise to me, but to my wife, when he met her and said ‘hello Daniela’, it was.’
After beating Bayern Munich 2-0 at the Bernabeu, Mourinho tried to sneak out on his own, knowing it would be his new home the following season after agreeing to manage Real Madrid.
Marco Materazzi made no secret of his displeasure when Rafa Benitez replaced Jose Mourinho as Inter Milan boss
Inter won the treble in 2010 but struggled the following season under Benitez, resulting in his dismissal in December
Materazzi, better known for the infamous headbutt he received from Zinedine Zidane in the 2006 World Cup final, would not let the manager leave without saying goodbye.
“I told him ‘f**k you’ for leaving me with Benitez,” he said.
Rafa Benitez took over at Inter the following season after leaving Liverpool, and struggled to match the surprising for the team that had succeeded under Mourinho.
He was sacked in December as the side had slipped to sixth in the league, 13 points behind leaders AC Milan.
Leonardo replaced Benitez and eventually led them to second place in Serie A and them to another Copa Italia.
13 years later, and the former Liverpool and Newcastle boss is being pursued by Leicester after they sacked Brendan Rodgers over the weekend.
Benitez has failed since leaving Everton in January last year and may be unwilling to join a Foxes side currently in the relegation zone.