Jose Mourinho will miss the opening two matches of the Serie A season after Italy’s soccer federation handed the Roma coach a 10-day ban for calling a referee “the worst” he had ever seen.
In an announcement, the FIGC’s disciplinary tribunal stated that Mourinho would serve the ban “from the beginning of the next league season” which begins on the weekend of August 19-20.
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Mourinho and Roma have been each fined 50,000 euros ($54,000) for his feedback about Daniele Chiffi, which got here after Roma’s 1-1 Italian league draw at Monza early final month.
The 60-year-old clashed with Chiffi in the course of the match and afterwards stated he was “the worst referee I have encountered in my entire career”.
“He is awful, he doesn’t make any human connection and he has no empathy,” he added.
Roma completed sixth in Serie A final season and was the Europa League runner-up final season.
