“Everyone said that Maicon got himself booked near Christmas so he could go to Brazil on vacation. I went and told him that if he got a yellow card I wouldn’t let him go”.
“He asked me if I would let him travel if he scored a goal, and I told him he had to score two”, Mourinho confessed about a curious episode with former Brazilian full-back Maicon.
“He scored a brace and was booked for taking off his shirt. I let him go and gave him an extra week”. An extraordinary anecdote from Mourinho, that’s what knowing how to motivate a player is.