Meet José Mourinho’s glam jewellery designer daughter Matilde: the 28-year-old’s pieces are worn by Priyanka Chopra and Kylie Minogue, she parties with Niall Horan, and recently married in Portugal
Fenerbahce manager José Mourinho may be controversial, but his former players and family remain firmly by his side – here’s what you need to know about his talented daughter, Matilde Mourinho
Portuguese football coach José Mourinho has come under attack for accusing his team’s opponents of “jumping around like monkeys” trying to get one of his players sent off in a recent match. The club in question, Turkish team Galatasaray, then initiated criminal proceedings against him for his “racist statements”, per The Guardian.
But legendary Ivorian striker Didier Drogba – who played under Mourinho at Chelsea – quickly jumped to his defence on social media: “I’ve seen the recent comments about José Mourinho. Trust me when I tell you I have known José for 25 years and he is not a racist, and history (past and recent) is there to prove it.”
“How can my ‘Dad’ be a racist?” he added. “Come on guys.”
Mourinho is known for the affinity he shares with players, and Drogba told The Guardian in 2013 that many of the team called him “daddy”. “I don’t know about all of us, but he did a lot of things for me during [a] moment where I had a lot of critics,” he told the newspaper.
But who are José’s actual children? The 62-year-old has a son, José Mário Jr, and a daughter, Matilde, who recently married her fiancé Danny Graham – and who is making a name for herself in a very different industry ...
Here’s what you need to know about her.
What is Matilde Mourinho’s background?
Matilde is the daughter of José Mourinho and his long-time wife, Matilde Faria. “My name is Matilde, my mother’s name is Matilde, and my grandmother’s name is Matilde. It’s a name that will continue to be passed down to generations to come,” she told Forbes last year.