Champions League 2010 Final Preview – Master vs Apprentice
The 2010 Champions League Final in Madrid will be a typical Master vs Apprentice scenario in which the teacher might be the one learning a lesson this time. Luis van Gal and Jose Mourinho, head coaches of Bayern Munich and Inter respectively, used to work together at Barcelona back in 1996-99. The unique thing about Jose's career is that he actually started as an interpreter for Bobby Robson while the Englishman was coaching Barca. And when Sir Robson was eventually dismissed from the job, van Gaal was selected to take over, but the Dutchman had a policy of always preserving some type of connection with the previous coaching staff in order to have a better inside knowledge on his new players. Thus, he decided to keep Mourinho in his staff and assigned him the task of preparing the scouting reports on Barcelona's opponents every week. Jose was doing such a great job that van Gaal decided to make him his assistant. Now, the two go head to head and his year's CL Final, just as R
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