The charismatic soccer coach Jose Mourinho will play himself in a soccer comedy with the working title ‘Playing Wide’ which is directed by the Norwegian film director Harald Zwart.
3/27/2006 :: The background to the somewhat special circumstances arose when the director made a commercial for the main sponsor of the British soccer team Chelsea.
"Mourinho was curious when I showed him some scenes from the film. So we used the equipment we had on set to film him. He thought it was very funny," Zwart said to the Norwegian newspaper VG.
The director will not divulge too much about what role Mourinho will have in the film, just that the role is connected to the Norwegian soccer team Fredrikstad. The film will be screened in Norway on March 31 next year, and Mourinho is invited to the premiere.
The film is a friendly soccer comedy about a charming group of male supporters. We follow the friends from their everyday life as car–salesmen and mechanics to a rigorous trip to the soccer World Championship in Germany.
Harald Zwart is a well established Hollywood director who has produced films such as ‘One Night at McCool’s’ and ‘Agent Cody Banks'.
Ministry of Foreign Affairs