{"id":845,"date":"2013-03-23T17:44:16","date_gmt":"2013-03-23T17:44:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/disnaija.com\/nigeria-news\/fifa-coach-award-mourinho-reiterates-rigging-allegation\/"},"modified":"2013-03-23T17:44:16","modified_gmt":"2013-03-23T17:44:16","slug":"fifa-coach-award-mourinho-reiterates-rigging-allegation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/disnaija.com\/fifa-coach-award-mourinho-reiterates-rigging-allegation\/","title":{"rendered":"FIFA coach award: Mourinho reiterates rigging allegation"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Real Madrid coach Jose Mourinho reiterated Saturday his claim that he and not Spain handler Vicente Del Bosque was the rightful recipient of FIFA’s 2012 World Coach of the Year award.<\/p>\n
Mourinho this week alleged that del Bosque picked up the honour at a ceremony in Zurich in January only after “irregularities” when people who had voted for him had their votes changed.<\/p>\n
He raised the issue again at a press conference in Setubal, Portugal where he praised Macedonia captain Goran Pandev for publicly backing his contested version of events.<\/p>\n
“I would simply like to thank one of numerous others who phoned me to warn me (of vote rigging), because it’s not easy.<\/p>\n