Ruben Amorim's biggest regret that wife of new Man Utd boss 'throws in his face'

Ruben Amorim decided to chopped abbreviated his education, skipping his exams to go a footballer whilst his woman was capable to get a grade and continued to mock her hubby for his decision

Ruben Amorim admits that his woman perpetually rubs her grade successful his look aft helium failed to instrumentality his exams, alternatively choosing to prosecute his vocation successful football.

The Portuguese brag has shown himself to beryllium a shrewd manager pursuing a palmy vocation arsenic a player. His exploits with Sporting Lisbon, wherever helium won 2 league titles, enactment him firmly connected the radar of Europe's apical clubs and Manchester United moved to bring him successful conscionable weeks ago.

Amorim is preparing for his archetypal lucifer successful charge this play astatine Ipswich Town. His way to Old Trafford though began arsenic a teen successful his homeland, erstwhile helium signed his archetypal nonrecreational woody arsenic a teenager.

He penned a woody with Lisbon broadside Belenenses having antecedently been released by Benfica. Football's spot successful Amorim's beingness meant helium was incapable to implicit his schoolhouse exams - thing helium inactive regrets - with his wife, Maria Joao Diogo, inactive teasing him astir it.

The caller United brag told Portuguese insubstantial Expresso: “I had an statement with my mother. I would proceed astatine schoolhouse until I signed a nonrecreational contract. I signed erstwhile I was 17. Today, I regret it a lot. If I’d taken my exams, I could person done the 12th year. I could besides person entered a apical college.

“My woman is an electrotechnical technologist and she throws that successful my look each day.”

Amorim did extremity up landing himself immoderate signifier of qualification however. He studied for a masters' grade successful high-performance shot coaching astatine the University of Lisbon, which yet saw him undertake a week-long internship successful Manchester with Jose Mourinho.

The Special One remains the astir palmy Portuguese manager of all-time and during his clip successful Manchester took Amorim nether his wing. Now the 39-year-old has followed successful Mourinho's footsteps and volition pb the Red Devils arsenic helium looks to bring occurrence backmost to Old Trafford.

Before helium moved to Manchester Amorim though was keen to marque wide that helium didn't privation to beryllium a Mourinho 2.0. He said: "The caller Mourinho? There volition ne'er beryllium a caller Mourinho. Mourinho is 1 of a kind. He's already texted me: 'The aged and the caller [Mourinho] are inactive in, I'll spot you successful the adjacent stage!' But determination won't beryllium different Mourinho... The caller Mourinho I won't be, but I'm blessed to transportation connected astatine Sporting's project."

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