Jose Mourinho opened up to CNN World Sport's Pedro Pinto by revealing he hates his social life. "I would love to be with my family in the street as a normal person and I can't," he said in this exclusive interview.
(CNN) -- Clad in his trademark black overcoat Jose Mourinho famously sprinted down Old Trafford's touchline eight years ago to celebrate Porto's last-gasp equalizer which knocked Manchester United out of the European Champions League.
And if Mourinho gets his way the Real Madrid coach will be spending much more time on the touchline -- the Portuguese coach wants football's authorities to introduce a timeout system.
Widely employed in sports such as American football, basketball and ice hockey, timeouts allow a coach to talk directly to their players when a game is stopped. At present soccer coaches are only allowed to give tactical advice to their players at half time.
"It's something that I think football could improve a little bit," Mourinho, who celebrated Real's recent win over Manchester City in the Champions League by sliding on to his knees on the Bernabeu turf, told CNN in an exclusive interview.
"It would be to allow during a match to find a way to allow the coach to have a relation with the players."
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Real's coach suggested that the timeout should come midway through the first half.
"You could ask for a minute like the American sports have. It probably would be a solution, or give us some more freedom to walk around the touchline."
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Mourinho's career at Porto, Chelsea, Inter Milan and Real has been characterized by meticulous planning and his use of early double or triple substitutions to change the course of a game.
But he revealed he was flexible in his approach to the way he delivered his half-time team talks.
"Sometimes, it's emotionally. Sometimes, it's spontaneous. Sometimes, you don't think and sometimes, you don't have time to think," said Mourinho. "But many other times, of course, I prepare myself.
"Even when I'm in the match, the last 10 minutes of the first half, more than analyzing the game, I'm preparing myself for half-time because that's when I can have an impact on the players.
"I can help the players to improve and to win a match, so I try to be an observer and I try to analyze the game during the first 30-35 minutes of the first half and the last 10 minutes, I am preparing myself for my direct contact with the players."
The Real coach added: "Players are incredible artists and during the match, sometimes they express themselves in a way where they're not even thinking about it. They do things where they don't think. And I think with coaches, it can happen the same."
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However, Mourinho admitted that his advice was not always heeded by his players.
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Notably when he was Inter Milan coach and devoted the majority of a half-time team talk pleading with Italian forward Mario Balotelli to take care and not get sent off in a Champions League game against Rubin Kazan.
But Mourinho's words of wisdom fell on deaf ears and almost immediately after the restart the enigmatic Balotelli picked up a red card.
"I could write a book of 200 pages of my two years at Inter with Mario, but the book would be not a drama, the book would be a comedy because he's a funny, he's a funny kid," said Mourinho.
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More seriously, Mourinho suggested Manchester City manager Roberto Mancini might be the only coach who could persuade Balotelli, who scored a late equalizer for City in the 1-1 Champions League draw with Borussia Dortmund on Wednesday, to maximize his formidable talent.
"Mancini was his first coach as a professional, so before me," said Mourinho. "So for sure the same feeling I have, Mancini has probably even more than Mario.
"You know, Mario was 18 with Mancini at Inter, was 20 with me. Now, he should be 22, so the natural tendency is that he grows up and becomes the player that the talent he has.
"I've no contact with Mario in this moment, but I hope so. I hope so, and Roberto knows him well, speaks the same language, knows him since he was a kid, so if he doesn't do it with Roberto, it will be difficult to do with another one, but I hope so because he's a talent."
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Mourinho's persona on camera differs from the man who goes and watches his 12-year-old son play football. The Real boss said: "Before the match, press conference is pre-match and after the match, press conference is post-match, but it's a match."
Mourinho hopes to continue working in football until he is 70 or 75 and says he feels right at home in his office. "I keep to myself, I keep to the people that are close to me and one day when my career finishes, I hope that I will still have a few years to be a normal person because I want to finish my career at 70 or 75."
Mourinho made his name at Porto, leading the club to a shock Champions League success by beating French club Monaco in the final. The Portuguese side famously defeated Manchester United on its way to glory in 2004.
Mourinho sprinted on to the field at the Camp Nou following his Inter side's aggregate victory over Barcelona in the 2010 Champions League semifinal. The Portuguese coach had started his career at the Catalan club as translator to the late Sir Bobby Robson.
Mourinho jumps for joy after leading Inter Milan to victory in the 2010 Champions League final against Bayern Munich. It was the second time he had won the competiton after leading Porto to the title back in 2004.
Mourinho holds the Champions League trophy aloft at the Santiago Bernabeu following his side's 2-0 win over Bayern Munich. He became the third man in history to win the competition with two different clubs after Ernst Happel and Ottmar Hitzfeld.
Mourinho led Chelsea to consecutive league titles in 2005 and 2006 after making the move from Porto following his Champions League triumph. He remains close to Blues owner Roman Abramovich despite his acrimonious departure.
Real Madrid's players toss Mourinho into the sky after clinching the 2012 La Liga title following their victory at Athletic Bilbao. The achievement means he has won league titles in Portugal, England, Italy and Spain.
Mourinho often takes his children along to watch matches with him. It's a far cry from the field where his son, Jose, plays football and is often taunted because of who his father is.
Mourinho and Vilanova have made up since that infamous incident where the Portuguese poked the Barca man in the eye during an El Clasico encounter last season. Vilanova, who has now taken over the manager's job from Pep Guardiola, will go head to head with Mourinho once again on Sunday.
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