Western United, Collingwood legend Scott Pendlebury and European football royalty Jose Mourinho have created a link-up for the ages.
Enter The Special One wine.
Western United’s Executive Chairman Jason Sourasis has teamed up with the iconic Portuguese football manager to create an exemplary new wine product.
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It all started some 10 years ago when Sourasis struck up a relationship with AFL champion Scott Pendlebury as the owner of Hemisphere Management Group.
Mentoring and working with the Collingwood star over a number of years, Sourasis and his team created The Pendlebury wine in 2018, followed by The Moore with Pendlebury’s teammate Darcy Moore and The Cripps with Carlton star and two-time Brownlow Medallist Patrick Cripps.
The next step was to expand into international business with the godfather of 21st century football management.
A winner of 26 major club honours including two UEFA Champions League Crowns, three Premier League titles and two Serie A titles, Mourinho has done it all as a manager across stints at some of the most recognisable clubs in the world including Real Madrid, Chelsea, Inter Milan and Manchester United.
His iconic celebrations, quotes and tactics have become synonymous with the modern game, while on the pitch he has helped shape some of this generation’s best talent – Cristiano Ronaldo, Zlatan Ibrahimovic, Frank Lampard and many more.
Mourinho was the perfect fit for Hemisphere’s latest wine venture given his prestige in the game, his familiarity off the pitch and his love and knowledge of wine, particularly in some of the best wine regions in the world in his native Portugal.
It all serves to strengthen Western United’s ties with the global game at an exciting time for the Club with young stars thriving in the men’s and women’s first teams and with an ever-growing community in the west of Victoria as the Club continues to build at its home base at Ironbark Fields in Tarneit.
