The day that Drogba wept for Mourinho

John Terry could not stand idly by. It was midnight, but did not care the least. Chelsea captain picked up the phone to call two of the sacred cows of the team, Didier Drogba and Frank Lampard. The instructions were clear: "We can not allow this".

The news was none other than the confirmation of the departure of Jose Mourinho, the coach who had forever changed the mentality of the London team. "We talked to the club and said clearly that we did not want to leave," confirms the captain, "but Joseph already had an agreement to leave."

The next day, the episode that nobody wanted to happen. One of his players confidence, his compatriot Paulo Ferreira tells: "A farewell is always complicated, but it was even more. I did not expect it to be so difficult. He came to the locker room, we all gathered together and told us he was going" .

Chelsea defender tells the secrets of that meeting: "He said he would miss the good times we spent and we embraced, one by one. I remember that Didier Drogba was one of the most affected, wept like a child."

The African player has never recognized such an extent, but it suggests: "There was much excitement in the locker room the day he took leave of us. It seemed a thing unreal, as if it were not true, as if it were a movie, because it saw every day and we were not prepared for him to go. It was a shock. "

Frank Lampard did not want for anything that Mourinho depart. The charismatic Chelsea midfielder agrees: "In my head I imagined that he would stay 10 years. Everything worked perfectly. Normally, I'm not emotionally involved with this sort of thing. I know that coaches come and go. The football. But in that case was more than a coach who started, was a friend who left us. " The man who, by his own players, forged the winning mentality Chelsea, from the first day he took over the bench, he left. However, the trace of 'The Special One', as it was named after commenting in his presentation that he was a special coach, remains indelible in every corner of Stamford Bridge. The survivors of that team are responsible for remembering.