"The completion of the entire cycle and process that were dictated by the electoral act has taken place. Now, we can say 'let's get to work', because we need to continue to put this club on the path to victory, which is what we most desire. In this way, everything is official and we are going to work", stressed the manager, in statements reproduced by the official website of the 'dragons'.

In a General Assembly held at the end of the morning at the Estádio do Dragão, in Porto, 18 shareholders unanimously approved the names proposed for the top of the company by the former coach, who was invested exactly three weeks ago as the 34th president of the club.

"We are going to meet the rest of the employees of SAD and the group companies, sit down with everyone, give the guidelines for this new four-year period and start working. Having the active participation of all employees is essential for a good business organization and it is worthy to start with them, who give everything for FC Porto", he said.

André Villas-Boas, 46, is accompanied by José Pereira da Costa, responsible for the financial portfolio, on the executive committee of the board of directors of FC Porto's SAD, which has five members, unlike the nine in Pinto da Costa's management.

Carlos Gomes da Silva, former administrator of the oil company Galp, was appointed as vice-president, in a cast completed by Maria do Rosário Moreira, professor at the Faculty of Economics of the University of Porto, and Ana Teresa Lehmann, Secretary of State for Industry of the 21st Government, then headed by the socialist António Costa, from 2017 to 2018.

The presidencies of the General Assembly and the Fiscal Council are now in charge of António Tavares and Angelino Ferreira, former financial administrator of FC Porto SAD, respectively, replicating the functions performed in homologous bodies of the club.

The Remuneration Committee will be chaired by Óscar Afonso, director of the Faculty of Economics of Porto, while Ernst & Young Audit continues as the official auditor of the company, whose holders of four bodies were unanimously approved.

The exception occurred in the ratification by majority, with one abstention, of the new Consultative Council, which brings together several 'notables' in the 15 effective vacancies and is led by Fernando Freire de Sousa, who was already the first name indicated for the Superior Council of the club.

The new composition of the company was sworn in for the 2024-2027 four-year period, a month after André Villas-Boas was elected president of the 'dragons', defeating Pinto da Costa, leader for 42 years and 15 terms, in the most participated suffrage in the club's history.

Since then, the former coach has been appealing for the rapid resignation of the outgoing SAD administration, but all the social bodies continued in office until the end of the football team's season, which won the Portuguese Cup for the 20th time on Sunday, and third consecutive, by defeating the newly crowned champion Sporting (2-1, after extra time), in Jamor.

Like other games played after the elections, the two leaders sat almost side by side in the presidential stand of the Estádio Nacional, in Oeiras, and hugged each other after the end of the match, lifting together FC Porto's only trophy in 2023/24.

If André Villas-Boas won the first trophy in football since taking office as president, Pinto da Costa, 86, celebrated the 45th and last in 27 seasons as leader of SAD, founded on July 30, 1997, in the same way as he reached the 69 scepters - seven of which were international - since the first election in the club, in April 1982, having consolidated the status of the oldest and most titled manager in world football.

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