The wife of Portuguese football manager and former player José Mourinho, who is recognized as one of the best and most successful managers in the world, is Matilde Faria, an Angolan-Portuguese humanitarian worker. She frequently assists her spouse in his numerous humanitarian endeavors. Matilde Faria has accompanied José Mourinho on his global travels to take part in the World Food Programme’s (WFP) numerous hunger eradication projects since Mourinho was named a Global Ambassador of the WFP in 2014. She also frequently works in Setúbal, which is her neighborhood. She divides her time between Lisbon and Manchester, where her husband works as a coach, but she frequently travels with him to events as a show of support.
Ascent to Fame
Since their adolescent years, Matilde Faria has been coached by renowned football player José Mourinho. Additionally, they were married prior to his football career becoming well-known. José has never hesitated to acknowledge that Matilde has been his rock from those early days. Throughout his remarkable career, she has enjoyed the spotlight and established herself as a socialite with a humanitarian bent.
Connection to José Mourinho
Mamilde Faria and José Mourinho lived just one street apart and are from the same neighborhood in Setubal, Portugal. During their adolescent years, the couple grew close, and shortly after, they started dating. They dated for a while before getting married in 1989 before they were even 18 years old. In 1996, she gave birth to their first child, a daughter who went by Matilde. José Mário Jr., their only son, was welcomed into the family four years later. Even though Faria and her daughter have the same name, her daughter goes by Tita, while Fari is referred to as “Tami” by friends and family. Her daughter is a budding fashion model and close friend of Niall Horan of One Direction. Her son is a youth football player for Fulham. Her two children grew up moving about a lot due to their father’s work, living in Portugal, Italy, Spain, and the UK. She and her spouse raised their kids as devout Catholics and are practicing Catholics.
Disputes and Scandals
Despite having been married for almost thirty years, Matilde Faria and her husband José Mourinho have been embroiled in controversy on multiple occasions in the past because of reports about Mourinho’s purported adultery. José was accused of having an affair with Elsa Sousa by ‘The Sun’ in 2007, shortly after he was fired from Chelsea. She revealed personal information about the romance in an interview, including how he gave her chocolate-chip cookies to eat while she was listening to Bryan Adams’ “Everything I Do, I Do It For You.” José and Matilde both asserted that the accusations were untrue.
Subsequently in 2010, a new controversy surfaced when Lelesit Silvana, a Kenyan woman, said that she had an affair with him during his visits to Diani, Kenya, and that they even went on multiple love vacations to Poland. She further asserted that he had proposed to her and was prepared to file for divorce from his wife. Without providing further information, Matilde and her husband refuted the allegations once more. However, when his wife needed emergency surgery in late December 2016, José had the chance to show her how much he loved and devoted himself to her. Twice in two days, he flew in a private aircraft from London to Lisbon to be by her side at Hospital De Sao José, a private outpatient facility housed within the state-run Royal Lisboa Hospital, where she was receiving medical attention. A report published in “The Sun” claims that the reason for the operation was problems from an earlier procedure—ostensibly for cancer—that was first deemed successful. She did, however, frequently complain of pain, and before Christmas, a diagnosis of more severe issues necessitated urgent surgery. On December 28, José took a plane to Lisbon and returned to Manchester later that day. After spending the morning of December 29th practicing with his team, he visited his wife once more and then left the same day to attend a news conference.
Later, in August 2017, he posted a picture of himself on Instagram holding a picture of his wife, who was back in London with their children, and wished her a happy birthday in Portuguese while enjoying a busy day in Manchester with his colleague Ricardo Formosinho. Rumors of infidelity will be dispelled by his love and loyalty to his family and to his wife.
Individual Life of Matilde Faria
Matilde Faria was born in Angola, a country in South Africa, where her parents were employed as relief workers. She grew up in the Portuguese seaside resort of Setúbal.
The net worth of Matilde Faria
The estimated net worth of Matilde Faria is about $1 million.