Julio Cesar: Mourinho told me that I stopped more with one arm than Casillas Real Madrid Brazilian goalkeeper reveals a conversation

Currently at Flamengo, Brazilian goalkeeper Julio Cesar revealed details of a curious conversation he had with Jose Mourinho after the 2013 Confederations Cup final.

Brazil won 3-0 against Spain in the Estadio Maracana and Cesar was chosen as the best goalkeeper of the tournament.

He picked up the prize wearing a Casillas shirt, to make "a tribute for everything he did."

"When I got to the dressing room, I saw a message from Mourinho on my cell phone," he said during an interview on the Selecao Sportv programme.

"'You're crazy, it's Casillas who would have to put on your shirt and not you,' it read.

"And he told me that with only one arm I stopped more than Casillas."

After the final, Casillas went to the Brazilian dressing room to thank Julio Cesar for the gesture.

"Iker went to the dressing room to talk to me and I told him to have a discussion with Mourinho, which is difficult but he had to face it," Cesar continued.

"Mourinho likes to go face to face with the players who are considered stars in the teams that he coaches."

"You are a Serie C goalie"

He also acknowledged that Mourinho was a very demanding coach.

"The first year was great, but the second one was more difficult," he added.

"I went into games with a fear of being wrong, and I thought: either I face it or it ends my career.

"In training Mourinho approached me and said 'you are the best goalkeeper in the world, but today you're a Serie C goalkeeper.'"

Mourinho's yellow shirt

"There was a time when Mourinho wanted me to play with a yellow shirt," Cesar said.

"But it wasn't part of the colours of the goalkeepers of that season, which were white, black and grey.

"He gave me a yellow shirt, which was the training shirt, and I told him I was not going to play in yellow.

"Mourinho mocked me in every way possible and told me I was afraid of the ball.

"In short... I played in yellow."