Roma determines Mourinho's replacement if he could be Portugal boss

Press reports revealed that the Italian football club AS Roma. has identified a replacement for its coach, Jose Mourinho, who is linked to be a strong candidate take the job of the Portuguese national team boss, to succeed former coach Fernando Santos, who was dismissed from his position after the end of the team’s campaign in the FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022. The Portuguese newspaper “Apolla” confirmed that the Argentine coach Mauricio Pochettino will be the closest to replace Jose Mourinho in the leadership of the Roma team, if the “Special One”, agrees to train his country’s national team. The Portuguese newspaper added that Mourinho had never coached any team through his training career at a time when frustration prevailed among the Portuguese street, following the exit from the quarter-finals of the World Cup Qatar 2022 after losing to Morocco 1- 0. The newspaper added that after circulating several press reports confirming the Portuguese Football Association's interest in contracting with Jose Mourinho as coach of the national team, to succeed the article Fernando Santos, there are new reports indicating that Argentine Mauricio Pochettino will be the closest to replace Mourinho at AS Roma.