Jose Mourinho broke down in tears after AS Roma reached UECL final with Leicester win

AS Roma have reached the UEFA Europa Conference League final.

Insert whatever jokes you might want to get off your chest about UEFA’s third-string competition, but if you’re in it, then you’re in it to win it and that’s certainly the case for Jose Mourinho.

With his Roma side seemingly on course for a fifth-place finish in Serie A, then competing in the European competitions beneath the Champions League are going to be the order of the day.

And you certainly can’t accuse Mourinho of not grabbing Roma’s best opportunity at continental silverware with both hands, steering his team into the face where they will face Feyenoord.

Plus, the Italian giants’ semi-final opposition most certainly weren’t pushovers as Mourinho reunited with the team, Leicester City, that brought the curtain down on his second Chelsea spell.

With the Foxes within touching distance of their first ever European trophy, you could tell that they were fired up to overcome Roma in the final four and book themselves a flight to Tirana, Albania.

And the tie was firmly poised going into the second leg at the Stadio Olimpico with Lorenzo Pellegrini’s strike and a Gianluca Mancini own goal having seen the first match end 1-1.

However, once the floodlights flickered on in Rome, it was a gladiatorial battle that Mourinho simply wasn’t going to lose as Tammy Abraham fired the hosts into the lead with a first-half header.

And they didn’t look back from there with Roma ultimately seeing the game out to win 1-0 on the evening, therefore 2-1 on aggregate, to spark emotional scenes for Mourinho on the touchline.

The ‘Special One’ hasn’t lifted a trophy since 2017, which is just about as huge as a trophy drought gets for him, so you could tell that reaching a European