Video: Mourinho surprises Roma debutant D’Alessio in post-match interview

José Mourinho stunned Roma debutant Francesco D’Alessio throughout a post-match interview on Thursday revealing how the 19-year-old had satisfied him to let younger supporters in at Trigoria throughout a coaching session this summer season.

D’Alessio, a flexible midfielder taking part in for Roma Primavera, made his senior debut with the Giallorossi on Thursday, coming off the bench in a 4-0 Europa League win over Servette.

Mourinho was talking at a post-match interview when he noticed the 19-year-old strolling shut by within the combined zone. He then grabbed the promising Roma participant and mentioned: “To begin with, let me inform you a narrative.

“In the summertime, earlier than the children went again to highschool, we had been coaching and there have been a great deal of youngsters exterior Trigoria screaming as a result of they wished to come back inside to look at coaching.

“He was with us and he mentioned, once I was seven, eight, 9, I used to be on the market screaming as a result of I wished to come back in. No coach opened the gates to let me in.

“I used to be very completely happy for the children as a result of I opened the gate and allow them to in. Now, he’s taking part in for Roma, within the Europa League, on the Stadio Olimpico in entrance of fifty or 60,000 folks along with his household right here.

“I don’t wish to say anymore, he can discuss. Properly carried out!”