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Former Manchester United manager José Mourinho will host his own show on the Russian TV channel RT, formerly known as Russia Today, the channel said.
Mourinho, 56, will badyze the Champions League matches in the bi-weekly football program.
"I'm going to talk about football on RT, what did you think I was going to do again?" he says in a promotional video.
Mourinho worked as an expert for the Moscow-based RT network during the 2018 World Cup, which took place in Russia.
He was sacked by Manchester United in December after two years at the Old Trafford club, following a disappointing period in which United said he identified a catalog of failures.
"After the end of my career, everyone was wondering what I would do next," says Mourinho in a video ad posted on YouTube.
"I wanted a new challenge … I'm used to surprising people," he adds.
His new broadcast on the broadcaster funded by the Russian state called On the Touchline with José Mourinho. It should begin on March 7th.
The news channel RT broadcasts its coverage in Arabic, English and Spanish.
In December, Ofcom, a British media watchdog, said that RT had breached the rules of impartiality in a number of its programs related to nerve agent attacks in Salisbury.
RT said that he was "extremely disappointed with the conclusions of Ofcom".
Mourinho made his first media engagement since his dismissal last month, as a pundit for Qatar-based broadcaster Bein Sports.
What is RT?
The Kremlin-supported network is available in more than 100 countries.
RT, originally Russia Today, began broadcasting internationally in 2005 as a subsidiary of RIA Novosti, one of three Russian public information broadcasters.
The broadcaster focused on reports related to Russia and said that its goal was to improve the image of the country in the United States. At launch, he promised a "more balanced image" of Russia.
A few years later, he shortened his name to become RT and began to focus on US news, positioning himself as an alternative to US mainstream media on online and US cable television.
The slogan of the channel is "Question More" and the network aims to provide Russia's views on world events to its international audience.
It broadcasts 24 hours a day on Washington, London and Paris. RTDoc, broadcast in English and Russian, is broadcast from Moscow.
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