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AS Roma boss, Jose Mourinho has been tipped to become the next manager of the Portugal national team after they fired Fernando Santos, following their quarter-final loss to Morocco at the World Cup.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Santos had been the Portugal’s manager since 2014 and it seemed he will continue to lead them after winning Euro 2016 and the Nations League in 2019.
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However, after falling out with Cristiano Ronaldo and losing to Morocco the Portuguese pulled the plug on his deal and will now search for a new man to take over from him.
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Several managers of Portuguese origin are making names for themselves in the world of football and could consider it a thing of pride to manage their country’s national team, one of them is Mou.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The former Manchester United boss was asked about the possibility of becoming their next boss and he refused to answer, according to Matchplug<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He is not the only manager they are considering, but he is one of their best they have and could return to his homeland, but he has a bad relationship with Ronaldo, which could mean the attacker will retire.
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He is not the only manager they are considering, but he is one of their best they have and could return to his homeland, but he has a bad relationship with Ronaldo, which could mean the attacker will retire.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":11375,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[159,218,223],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11374","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-football-news","category-premier-league-football-news","category-transfers"],"yoast_head":"\nJose Mourinho could become the next Portugal manager - Matchplug Blog<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/matchplug.com\/blog\/jose-mourinho-could-become-the-next-portugal-manager\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Jose Mourinho could become the next Portugal manager - Matchplug Blog\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"AS Roma boss, Jose Mourinho has been tipped to become the next manager of the Portugal national team after they fired Fernando Santos, following their quarter-final loss to Morocco at the World Cup. 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