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Villas-Boas ascends to the throne after famous stint in the dream chair

André Villas-Boas won the FC Porto elections and will fulfill the dream of being the club's president, dethroning Pinto da Costa, with whom he celebrated successes as coach of the football team, but with whom he had recent disagreements.

Villas-Boas ascends to the throne after famous stint in the dream chair
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02:31 - 28/04/24 por Lusa

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At 46 years old, 13 after having culminated an unforgettable era in command of the 'dragons', marked by the conquest of four trophies, among which were the championship and the Europa League, the candidate of list B overwhelmingly defeated (79.96% against 19.44%) the director with the most titles and longevity in world football, entitled by him as the "president of presidents", starring in a historic 'turnaround'.
Villas-Boas wants to honor the legacy of 42 years and 15 consecutive terms of Pinto da Costa, who led FC Porto to the conquest of 2,585 trophies in 21 sports - 68 of which were in senior men's football -, driven between the desire for change and an obstinate path. Born on October 17, 1977, Luís André de Pina Cabral e Villas-Boas grew up in the noble area of Porto, but the aristocratic and English-origin family never opposed his fascination for football and engines, immortalizing a youth filled with trips to the old Estádio das Antas for 'dragons' games with a meeting as fortuitous as it was decisive. At 16 years old, Villas-Boas became the neighbor of the ill-fated English coach Bobby Robson, who had been fired from Sporting and arrived at FC Porto in two months, and with whom he one day talked about tactical aspects in the building where they both lived. That moment took him out of anonymity and placed him as an assistant for the club's youth teams, while he obtained his coaching licenses and trained abroad, even spending five months as technical director and coach of the Caribbean British Virgin Islands. Returning to the 'blue and white' youth teams, he would be invited in early 2002 by José Mourinho - who already knew him from the Bobby Robson 'era' (1994-1996) and had just been recruited from União de Leiria - to assume functions as an observer in the senior team. Villas-Boas distinguished himself in the analysis of opponents and contributed in the following seven years to the success of the Setúbal native at FC Porto (2002-2004), at English Chelsea (2004-2007) and at Italian Inter Milan (2007-2009), before, yearning for higher 'flights', cooling ties with the 'special one' and the remaining assistants to launch himself solo on the benches. Hired by the then first division Académica in October 2009, he soon attracted the interest of the 'big ones' at only 32 years old, but the instability of Sporting and the sudden 'blue and white' intrusion led him to the club of his heart in the summer of 2010. André Villas-Boas was seen as a risky bet by Pinto da Costa in the succession of Jesualdo Ferreira, three-time national champion in the four previous seasons, but he put the third-place finisher of the 2009/10 edition of the I Liga back on the path to success at home and abroad. The third youngest coach to be Portuguese champion, he consecrated an undefeated path marked by the biggest point difference in history between the first two places (21) - in a system of three points for a win -, five rounds from the end, when he celebrated the success over Benfica (2-1) in an Estádio da Luz in the dark and with the lawn watering system on. Villas-Boas found ways to provoke his own team in the posture of his rivals, leading it to overcome the decisions of the Cândido de Oliveira Super Cup against the 'eagles' (2-0), who had denied FC Porto's second 'penta' in the previous season, and of the Portuguese Cup against Vitória de Guimarães (6-2), with a hat-trick by James Rodríguez. A precise header by Radamel Falcao decided the 100% Portuguese final of the Europa League with Sporting de Braga (1-0), in Dublin, and helped the 'dragons' reach their seventh and last international trophy, and fifth European trophy, imitating the 'quadruple' of 1987/88. At 33 years and 213 days old, André Villas-Boas became the youngest coach to win a UEFA competition with offensive football, leading Chelsea to pay the 15 million euros of the termination clause, breaking the record for coach transactions at the time. The option to leave the "dream chair", an expression coined by him in 2010/11, a few days before the start of the following pre-season, put assistant Vítor Pereira in command of FC Porto and infuriated several fans, nothing that later statements did not dilute. Villas-Boas traced the initial steps of José Mourinho's coaching career, but would be fired after nine months, even though he had started Chelsea's path to the FA Cup and the first Champions League title in his record. The London rival Tottenham (2012-2013), Zenit Saint Petersburg (2014-2016), for which he won the championship, Russian Cup and Super Cup, the Chinese Shangai SIPG (2017) and the French Marseille (2019-2021) followed, between the 'dream' of stepping on the sands of the Dakar Rally (2018), ended at the fourth stage with an accident at the wheel of a Toyota.
With his premature farewell to football, he was preparing the ground to fulfill his intention of running for the presidency of FC Porto, by obtaining a postgraduate degree in Executive Management in the United States and by capitalizing on an unprecedented contestation of Pinto da Costa, with whom he has entered into dissonance in recent years, indifferent to the accusations of treason.

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