Jose Mourinho repeats belief of corruption in 2012 Coach of the Year award: 'Something happened'

Engulfed in a corruption scandal that's seen a series of indictments levelled against its top officials and triggered the resignation of kingpin Sepp Blatter, FIFA are once again facing accusations from Jose Mourinho over the 2012 Coach of the Year award.

Mourinho claimed there were "irregularities" in voting for the honour after he finished second to Vicente del Bosque. This week, he repeated his belief that he may have been the victim of corruption.

"In 2012, I was one of the three finalists and when I was told I was finishing second with a few votes behind the first, it looked normal to me," Mourinho told the Sunday Times, according to the Guardian. He continued:

But then the votes were made public. And my former player, a national team captain, called me: 'Mister, there is something wrong because obviously, obviously, I gave you the vote, then in the list they put another coach's name and that was not me.'

A few minutes later my Portuguese friend, a national team coach, called me. 'Mister, don't believe what you see in the list because obviously I vote for you.' And a few minutes later I got a message from another national coach, 'they changed my vote.'

Who changed the vote? His federation? FIFA? Who? It is not a drama. A drama is other things but at that time I said: 'From this moment I don't go back,' because obviously something happened.

FIFA immediately denied the allegations when Mourinho first spoke out in March 2013.

Votes for the Coach of the Year award are cast by national team managers, captains, and selected journalists.