Matilde Faria Biography | Matilde Faria Mourinho
Matilde Faria is a Portuguese born in Angola humanitarian worked, famed for being the wife of football manager Jose Mourinho. She is most known by the name Tami.
Aside from being known for her famous husband, Faria is also a well known in Setubal for her humanitarian work. She has also traversed the world as an ambassador for the World Food Programme.
Matilde Faria Age
Tami’s age is not known but taking a guess based on her husband’s age, (55 years old in 2018) and their relationship that began in their teenage years, Faria is in her early fifties too.
Matilde Faria Family
Faria was born in Angola, a west-coast country in south-central Africa to parents who were humanitarian aid workers. She however grew up in the same neighborhood as her husband Jose Mourinho in Setubal, Portugal, living just one street apart from each other.
Matilde Faria with her husband Jose Mourinho
Matilde Faria Husband
José Mourinho Matilde Faria
Faria met her husband, former Manchester United manager, Jose Mourinho while they were still teenagers. They got married in 1989 and have been together ever since. They have two children too: a daughter and a son.
Matilde Faria Kids
Faria is the mother of Mourinho’s two children. Her elder child, socialite daughter Matilde Mourinho, was born in 1996 while the younger one José Mário Mourinho Jr. was born in 2000. José Mário Jr. was a goalkeeper at Fulham football club.
Her daughter prefers to use the name Tita as she shares a name with her mother. Due to her husband’s job, her children have grown up in different countries and cities. They have lived in Portugal, Italy, Spain and the UK.
(from left to right) Matilde herself, Jose Mourinho, her daughter Matilde Mourinho and son Jose Mario Mourinho Jr.
Matilde Faria Controversies
There have been a couple of controversies that have hit Faria’s marriage to Jose Mourinho. This is mainly due to Mourinho’s alleged infidelity. The first case was in 2007 after Mourinho was fired from Chelsea and reports of an affair with a woman by the name Elsa Sousa emerged.
She shared intimate details about the affair mentioning how he fed her chocolate-chip cookies while listening to Bryan Adams’ ‘Everything I Do, I Do It For You’. This claims were denied by both José and Matilde as being made up.
In 2010, another controversy arose, this time with a Kenyan woman by the name Lelesit Silvana. She claimed that she had an affair with him when he visited Diani, Kenya, and that the two even had romantic holiday trips to Poland several times. This alleged affair was also denied by Matilde and Mourinho.
In late December 2016, Mourinho got the chance to prove his love and loyalty to his wife when she had to undergo an emergency operation. He rushed from London to Lisbon in a private jet twice in two days to be by her side at Hospital De Sao José. His devotion towards his wife, as well as his love for his family, is sure to put infidelity rumors to rest.