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MADRID, SPAIN – MAY 22: Head coach Jose Mourinho (L) and Marco Materazzi of Inter Milan celebrate their team’s victory at the end of the UEFA Champions League Final match between FC Bayern Muenchen and Inter Milan at the Estadio Santiago Bernabeu on May 22, 2010 in Madrid, Spain. (Photo by Shaun Botterill/Getty Images)
Jose Mourinho announced the names of the two best defenders he ever worked with in his career are Marco Materazzi and John Terry.
The former Inter, Chelsea and Real Madrid manager poured immense praise onto the Italy international and England centre-back.
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He sat down for a video interview for MM23, an interactive book that covers the career of the 2006 World Cup winner.
Mourinho praise for Materazzi
“In my whole career, where I coached the best players of that generation, the two best central defenders I ever had were John Terry and Marco Materazzi,” said Mourinho.
The Special One famously lifted the Treble in 2010 with Inter, and Materazzi was a key part of that squad that won the Champions League, Scudetto and Coppa Italia in the same season.
He was the coach of the Nerazzurri from 2008 to 2010.
Mourinho’s experience with Terry was at Chelsea, where the England international played 267 games for this coach, scoring 26 goals and providing 11 assists.
Mou had two different spells at Stamford Bridge, in 2004-07 and then returning in 2013-15.
