It's less than a hundred miles up the west coast of the Iberian peninsula from Porto, where Jose Mourinho won the old UEFA Cup back in 2003, to the small Galician port of Vigo.
‘For Portuguese people, being in Galicia is kind of strange,’ he said after arriving in Spain on Wednesday. ‘We don’t know if we are back at home, or quite how to feel.’
Mourinho’s feelings towards the Europa League have certainly changed since he embarked on Manchester United’s campaign in Rotterdam last September admitting that he did not much care for the competition.
A dozen games and seven countries later, Mourinho will be in the final in three weeks’ time if United can overcome Celta Vigo, starting with tonight’s first leg at the Estadio Balaidos.