http://www.chelseafc.com/article.asp?hlid=413277 Jose: With winning culture comes Champions League Thursday, Aug 31, 2006 Jose Mourinho believes that if Chelsea keep knocking on the door, at some point the European Cup will be handed over. For knocking on the door, read entering the Champions League season after season with the proven best side in the Premiership. Then success in the world's most prominent club competition will surely follow. The Chelsea manager has all the qualifications needed to call himself an expert on the subject - two seasons in Portugal laden with silverware, including a Champions League triumph, and two seasons of success in England. On Wednesday evening, Chelsea TV broadcast a revealing and lengthy interview with him as part of The Soul of Chelsea series. Winning, and the culture of winning took up much of the debate. “We know the Premiership is very difficult to win and we know to win the Premiership you must be a great team,” Mourinho stated. “But the most important competition in terms of clubs in the world must be the Champions League. There is no doubt that at the later stages, the knockout makes the situation harder to control. But for a club like Chelsea which is becoming bigger and bigger, I think the Champions League must be the consequence one day of that work. “Premierships are the consequence of you being the best team. The Champions League is the natural consequence of you keep improving your team. “One day we have to win the Champions League, whether it is this season, in two years time or in years to come when somebody else is in my place, I don't know when. What I know is that the natural consequence of Chelsea's evolution is that one day Chelsea have to win the Champions League.” Winning competitions doesn't just add to the contents of the trophy room believes Mourinho. It changes the whole culture at a football club and the prospect of success in both the near and distant future. It is such a winning culture that Mourinho thinks separates some clubs from all the others. It is what he is attempting to install at Chelsea. “The most important identity is the habit of winning. Last season when we won the Premiership, it looks like normal. The first time, everybody was on the moon. People cried - a lot of people with Chelsea hearts and players without trophies. “Last season it was not so much. Why? Because it is the second one. So I think the most important thing is the habit of winning, the culture of v ictory. “If we do it again during our stay at the club - me and the players - you can guess that in 10 or 20 years time, with different managers and players, it is easy for them because the culture is there. “So I think we are at a very important point for the future of this club,” he explained, “by putting Chelsea at that level of the culture. “The passion is there forever. People are not Chelsea supporters just because Chelsea were champions for consecutive seasons. They are Chelsea supporters because they were born Chelsea supporters, so the passion doesn't change. “But the culture of victory is different. Celebrate all the time, chase victories with the same enthusiasm, with the same anger and don't change your anger to win. “The supporters mustn't change their anger to win and to follow the team and support the team all the time, but feel victories as something normal. Sometimes my friends, even my wife tells me, once more champions, it looks like normal for you. “It is not normal. I am very happy inside but the way you react is not the same thing. Adapt to that but not losing the desire you have to chase and find victory.” Under-pinning Mourinho's success at Chelsea and Porto has been an invincibility at home. He has not seen a side of his defeated in a home league match for four seasons. Again he believes mental strength is the key. “We prepare ourselves well for the game and we are mentally dominant. We can transfer that mental dominance onto the pitch at home. “We are ready to face difficult situations and fight difficult situations. You remember at home to West Ham we were losing with ten men and we were ready to play with ten men against eleven. You remember when we were losing and we changed formation at half-time to three at the back. “We have also been ready for a team to finish stronger than us. Even at home you must be ready to go back and defend your result if your opponent is better than you at the time, so I think we are mentally very strong to play at home.” “A little bit of luck is important and so is support from the public. We have a special feeling attacking to the Mathew Harding Stand. There are some little details that make you strong. “The boys when they go into the tunnel, they are already feeling strong and again that is the culture of victory. “If tomorrow you play and lose a home game, you don't forget that for two years nobody can beat you. You lose the game but you go back and build another period of one year, 16 months or 20 months. This culture is powerful.” The full 30 minute Jose Mourinho Soul of Chelsea interview can be seen again on Chelsea TV at 7.30pm tonight (Thursday), 11am on Friday or 9am on Saturday. by Paul Mason http://www.chelseafc.com/Images/-NEWS/MourinhoCLtrophy.jpg 曾經完成的夢想 -- Mourinho.... O! 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