Real Madrid manager Jose Mourinho has insisted that it will be "later rather than sooner" when he decides to become a national team manager.

The 49-year-old has achieved success at each of the club teams that he has managed during a 12-year managerial career, but he has insisted that he still feels like he has a long way to go.

Mourinho told AS: "We'll see, although it will be later rather than sooner, much later.

"I am 49 and will be 50 when this season finishes, but I still think I'm at the beginning of my career.

"So I say that for now, and for a long time to come, I'm not going to train a national team. That is not for me yet."

The former Chelsea manager was most recently linked with replacing Fabio Capello as England manager, before Roy Hodgson was handed the job.

Written by
Darren Plant