Mourinho gets warm welcome at Fenerbahçe

Former Real Madrid boss Jose Mourinho was unveiled as the new coach of Fenerbahçe on June 2 night, tasked with winning the club a first league title since 2014 after six runner-up finishes.

"I promise you that from this moment I belong to your family," Mourinho told thousands of fans at Şükrü Saraçoğlu Stadium on Istanbul's Anatolian side.

"The Special One" triggered huge cheers by picking up the Fenerbahçe jersey and saying "This shirt is my skin."

Mourinho arrives at the storied Istanbul club one week after it was edged yet again for the Turkish Süper Lig title by its archrival Galatasaray, which has now won it five times in the past 10 years.

Fenerbahçe missed out in the title race despite a points tally of 99 and losing only one league game all season.

Fenerbahçe President Ali Koç believes that the Portuguese coach will end the club's longing for a league trophy.

"We already have a very strong roster, and hopefully we will keep all our players in the sqaud unless there is an extraordinary offer," Koç said at the signing ceremony.

"We are already the champions of this year. The championship we all want next year will be the harbinger of the trophies to come."

After days of strong indications Mourinho was to take charge, Fenerbahçe announced in a social media post early on June2 that the Portuguese manager was to attend a ceremony at its stadium.

Mourinho was later photographed getting off an airplane that Fenerbahçe posted with the simple message "THE SPECIAL ONE," a description he gave himself on arriving at Chelsea 20 years ago, leaving Porto as a new Champions League winner.

Now aged 61, Mourinho should lift the profile and status of a club that never won a European title and will enter...