Materazzi:"Mourinho is the best with Lippi. I understood what Jose' was about even before meeting him"

The Manchester derby is set to take place this weekend, and there is inevitably a lot of hype for the showdown between Mourinho and Guardiola- it's hard to pick which manager is better. But if you ask Marco Materazzi he has no doubts as he told Gazzetta dello Sport:"How can you say best coach in the world when there are four more or less at the same level? Mourinho, Guardiola, Ancelotti and Lippi. Right below them we have Klopp and Conte. I can say that Mourinho and Lippi are the best for me, not just for what they accomplished, but because I saw them up closed. I understood what Jose' was about before even meeting him. I had just finished EURO 2008 with Italy, we had lost on penalty kicks to Spain: he didn't have my phone number, it was more likely that I would leave Inter, but I got a message from Mourinho "I'm waiting for you to start winning together"