Mourinho Makes Champion Plans

Jose Mourinho has outlined his target to lift the Champions League trophy with Real Madrid next season.

Mourinho led Real to their first title in four years as Los Blancos fended off Barcelona, who have recently dominated La Liga under former manager Pep Guardiola.

The Portuguese coach has twice won the Champions League, with Porto in 2004 and Inter Milan in 2010, but he has so far failed to repeat that feat at Real.

In the 2011-12 season, Real fell at the semi-finals stage of the competition for the second consecutive campaign since Mourinho took charge, but the former Chelsea boss has glory in his sights.

Mourinho told AS: "I want to win the Champions League with three distinct teams. Now Real Madrid has won the league, the objective for next season is to win the Champions League."

He went on to rule out an eventual switch to international management, amid speculation he could one day oversee his national side, who triumphed 3-2 over Denmark at Euro 2012 on Wednesday night.

He said: "I don't believe I could manage a national team that only plays a game every two months and an official tournament every two years. I need the pressure of facing two or three games every week."

Then asked if Spain were still EURO 2012 favourites he said: "I don't know. You speak about Spain and Barca (Barcelona) because the national team of Spain, they have five Real Madrid players too. So I don't know why you mix ... because they are two completely separate things."

"Spain is the world champion and no doubts about it. They are one of the best teams in the Europe, so normally, if things go in the right direction, Spain has to qualify and Spain has to go through and Spain has to compete maybe with Germany and maybe a couple of other teams to be the champion of Europe. Barcelona was the Champion of Spain and I repeat was the Champion of Spain and nothing else," he added.

He also had a word of praise for his native Portugal "Portugal don't depend on other teams. They only depend on themselves."

"If they do their job against the Netherlands, they will be in the quarter-final. I think that Portugal are one of the two or three best sides in the competition.

"But that doesn't mean much: everything is decided in 90 minutes, extra-time or penalties," the self-styled "Special One" said. "If Portugal get to the quarter-finals, anything can happen."

Paulo Bento's side, who were beaten 1-0 by Germany in their opening match, fought back to win 3-2 against Denmark on Wednesday. They play the Netherlands on Sunday evening in Kharkiv, also Ukraine.