No manager in soccer's other major European leagues can match his record of 13 domestic titles.

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How important is a manager in soccer?

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"It depends on the role and certainly to be a head coach in rugby you need to have a pretty good knowledge of the game and I would suppose to be a manager of a soccer team you'd need the same, " he said.

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Jose Mourinho , the pontificating Portuguese manager of the English Premier League soccer club, Chelsea, has left after a series of disagreements with its owner, Roman Abramovich.

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Bruyninckx's work has been acknowledged by one of the world's top soccer coaches, Jose Mourinho, the current manager at Real Madrid who has won titles in four different countries and lifted the European Champions League twice.

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"It's a strange one, " said former Liverpool player and manager Phil Thompson, now a Sky Soccer Saturday analyst.

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Juventus general manager Luciano Moggi, one of 25 soccer officials who faced charges of match-fixing and disloyalty, was banned from soccer for five years.

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"We're focused on building a proper soccer club and being competitive on all levels, " Cosmos general manager Erik Stover said.

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Still, Bayern manager Jupp Heynckes didn't buy into the narrative of a power shift in European soccer or indeed that Barcelona's remarkable run of success was suddenly hitting a wall.

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