Roma manager Jose Mourinho has asked to step down from his role on the UEFA football board, European football’s governing body confirmed to ESPN on Friday.
It comes less than two days after Mourinho was banned for his team’s next four European games by UEFA for verbally abusing referee Anthony Taylor after last month’s Europa League final.
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Roma lost a penalty shootout to Sevilla after a 1-1 draw and following the match, footage later circulated of Mourinho approaching Taylor and yelling expletives in his direction outside the stadium.
As first reported by The Athletic, Mourinho sent a letter to UEFA which read: “In thanking you for the invitation you extended to me to be a member of the UEFA football board, I regret to inform you that, effective immediately, I will be renouncing my participation in this group.
“The conditions which I so strongly believed in when I joined are no longer standing and I felt the obligation to take this decision.
