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Jose introduced me as his wife, and I felt like his wife – Former mistress
HUDDLED together in a bar in the Portuguese town of Leiria, the charismatic football coach, Jose Mourinho and his attractive mistress Elsa Sousa sipped their coffee and talked in hushed tones.
Despite still being married to his wife Tami, his childhood sweetheart and mother of his two young children, the future manager of Chelsea and his fashionable girlfriend barely merited a second glance.
All the locals believed he was separated from his wife: after all, he lived in an apartment near the club's stadium, while his wife remained at the family home in the exclusive suburb of Setubal, near Lisbon, where he grew up.
He and Elsa, who had a designer boutique in the town centre, had been dating for three months, were virtually living together and were regulars at local bars and restaurants.
.But their conversation that day in January 2002, was to have a profound effect on Mourinho's future career -launching him into the limelight as one of Portugal's most
successful coaches and eventually leading to his £4 million-a-year contract as the self-proclaimed 'Special One' at Chelsea.
He had arrived at the first division Uniao de Leiria football club the previous year, after working as Sir Bobby Robson's translator when the Englishman was manager at Sporting Lisbon, Porto and Barcelona.
Elsa recalls how, on the day, Mourinho picked her up from work and took her to a 'nice cosy bar. 'We sat down at a table and he talked to me about what was going on in his football life. 'He told me that he had had two offers, from Benfica and Porto, and asked me what I thought about them. I told him that I would prefer him to go to Porto because it was the club I supported.
'He said he trusted my instinct and would choose Porto because of me.
‘Thanks to me he went to Porto and became that big famous coach.'
With her slight frame, long blonde hair and designer wardrobe, Elsa, 38, looks like a typical footballer's girlfriend but she speaks several languages, has none of the brashness of the British WAGs and has always remained discreet about their relationship, which lasted more than a year and ended five years ago.
Now, just weeks after Mourinho was sacked by Chelsea owner Roman Abramovich, she has decided to talk for the first time about the man who duped her into believing he was going to divorce the wife he met as a teenager and married in 1980.
She says: 'The only reason I'm talking now is because he is back in Portugal which means everybody will start gossiping again.'

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A month later, after dinner with friends at their favourite restaurant, they made love for the first time.
Elsa says: 'He lit the fire, put on a ballad, and told me that he had fallen in love with me. He was very gentle, very sweet and attentive towards me. I stayed the night and didn't move out.
'After that he would always drive me to work, like a husband,' she added, giggling.
'We would stop at a newspaper kiosk and he would buy the sports papers A Bola and the Record and then we would have breakfast together if we were not too late. We would often meet for lunch and then in the evenings we would have dinner together and then go to a bar for coffee. Afterwards we would go home and he would watch the match highlights and eat biscuits. We would go to bed around lam.'
In a revealing insight into their cosy domestic arrangement, Elsa reveals how Mourinho had a real craving for biscuits.
She says: 'He loved chocolate biscuits and chocolate-chip cookies. He also loved the ones like Oreos with vanilla cream inside.
'He was addicted to them all. I was always trying to find a new brand for him. One I bought, he liked so much that he ate the whole packet. It made me laugh.
'Another time, with a new box, he frowned and shot me a questioning glance. There was silence as he crunched for a few seconds then a smile spread slowly across his face. With his mouth half full he said, "These are amazing. Get these from now on. These are the best!"
'Often, he would jump up and shout at the TV and bits of chocolate would fly out of his mouth. He would then sit back and eat another. At times, he would put them in his mouth one after the other without even looking away from the screen.
'If his team lost he would be in a black mood. He would always want the biscuits, though. The routine never changed.' They even ate biscuits in bed as part of their love-making.
Elsa says: 'A box would always be in the bedroom beside us. He love to feed me as we lay next to each other. If he had won, we would often pause and have a biscuit.'
'If his team lost, he was in a black mood'
Elsa also had to get to grips with Mourinho's other addiction - football. Their conversations often revolved around the game but Elsa insists it was fascinating.
'He used to talk to me about football and he would discuss strategies,' she says. 'He would draw pictures on the restaurant tablecloths. I like football, so I found it interesting.'
Elsa learned how Mourinho, the son of the former goalkeeper Felix Mourinho, never made it as a footbaIler himself and trained as a PE teacher before taking up coaching.
She says: 'He told me he used to play football but he knew he never was a good player. He preferred the tactics and the strategies of the game rather than playing himself.
'He told me that he had worked for Sir Bobby Robson and had learnt a lot from him. When 1 was with him, Sir Bobby used to call and talk about football.
I would try to go and watch his games but it depended on whether it was a home game and whether 1 was working. If he won he said the victory was ours and we would celebrate.
'We would go out for dinner to a seafood restaurant and he would buy dinner for everybody. If he lost, he would switch off the mobile and wouldn't talk to anyone apart from me. We would go back home or to the hotel and take refuge. He was very grumpy when he lost because it was so rare for him to lose.'

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Elsa reveals that even then Mourinho had his trademark grey Armani overcoat - which he sees as a lucky charm - but had no idea it was bought for him by his wife.
'He would always wear his overcoat to games,' she says. 'He even asked me once to take it to the cleaners. I don't know where he got it from. He already had it when I met him.
'He loved designer labels and was always admiring what I was wearing. He would often copy me. If I was wearing corduroy, for example, he would do the same.'
In November the couple went away for their first weekend together, leaving after his match on the Saturday. They travelled to a luxury ranch 30 minutes from Leiria, in Valado de Frades. They stayed in a suite.
Elsa says: 'Next day, over lunch, he told me that since he had met me, his life had changed and he-was thinking of getting a divorce from his wife. It was the first time he mentioned leaving his wife. I think he felt more courageous because our relationship was getting stronger.
'He said that he loved his children but he and his wife lived separate lives and slept in separate rooms. The only thing missing was the divorce papers.
'He wanted to find the best way to get round the situation, without hurting anyone.
'At that stage, I believed him. He was already separated and 1 am pretty sure his wife didn't know 1:5 about me. He never really talked tome about his wife. He used to say she was the mother of his children but he '" didn't love her any more.
'He adored his children and would spoil them rotten. He would always go home to see them the day after the match. He would have a drink with me and then he would drive down and have dinner with the children, stay the night and spend the day with them.'
Mter exchanging gifts on Christmas Eve 2001 - he gave Elsa a Gucci watch and she gave him Mont Blanc
'He and his wife slept in separate rooms' aftershave - the couple went to stay with their families for Christmas Day and met up again that evening.
'That's when he told me he would like to have children with me,' reveals Elsa.
'I thought that he had really decided to divorce his wife. 1 felt that he really loved me. He would tell all his friends that he had found the love of his life and 1 believed him. 1 was totally in love. 1 wanted to spend my life with him.'
Despite her strong feelings, Elsa never told her family about her affair with Mourinho, in case they disapproved. 'I avoided telling them,' she says. 'I knew he was married and didn't want to bring my family into it. They would not have approved.'
After Christmas, Elsa found out that Mourinho had been offered jobs by Benfica and Porto and on December 28 they went for secret drinks at Porto president Jorge Pinto da Costa's apartment.
'Mourinho introduced me as his wife to Pinto da Costa and his wife Carolina. 1 wasn't surprised because 1 felt like his wife but 1 felt very proud.
'I chatted to Carolina while we prepared the coffee. 1 am sure she believed 1 was his wife and 1 think the President did, too.'
It was a few days later that Mourinho consulted Elsa about where he should move to. Her decision proved right for his career - at Porto he won six major titles in two years including the Uefa Cup and the Champions' League - but spelled doom for their relationship.
On his 39th birthday on January 26, which coincided with his first match in charge, she gave him a white Hugo Boss shirt. 'He wore it for his first game,' she smiles. 'He said to me that it would give him good luck and it did. He won 2-1 against Maritimo. 'On the opening night in Porto, I sat with the footballers' wives, but I didn't have much in common with them. After that I sat with the president and Carolina. I don't think Mourinho liked me to mingle with the footballers' wives. He preferred me to sit with the president.'

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