Former Chelsea and Tottenham Hotspur supervisor Andre Villas-Boas has been elected president of Portuguese soccer giants FC Porto, ending the 42-year reign of Jorge Nuno Pinto da Costa.
Villas-Boas, 46, obtained 21,489 votes, to simply 5,224 for his 86-year-old rival, who had gained his earlier 15 successive elections to move ‘The Dragons’.
“What a historic night… our club is alive and today proved its strength,” mentioned Villas-Boas, in a press release issued by Porto.
Villas-Boas loved his most profitable managerial spell at Porto.
Aged simply 33, he guided them within the 2010/11 season to the home double — topped champions with out shedding a sport — the Portuguese Cup and the Europa League.
The victory within the Europa League — beating Portuguese rivals Braga — made him at 33 years and 213 days the youngest coach ever to win a European membership trophy.
Villas-Boas promised throughout his marketing campaign to rent former Spanish worldwide goalkeeper Andoni Zubizareta, who he got here throughout whereas he was supervisor of Ligue 1 facet Marseille, as sporting director.
He additionally pledged to put in former Portuguese worldwide defender Jorge Costa as head of the soccer division.
Pinto da Costa had on his half this week prolonged the contract of current head coach Sergio Conceicao.
Since Pinto da Costa was first elected in 1982, Porto have loved unprecedented success trophy-wise — successful 23 league titles and each the European Cup in 1987 and its successor the Champions League in 2004.
However, this season issues have turned bitter.
The membership is affected by monetary issues off the pitch and the workforce has struggled on it, languishing in third place within the league desk 18 factors adrift of leaders Sporting, who they host afterward Sunday.
For Villas-Boas it is going to be a brand new problem, having retired from teaching, to give attention to the presidential marketing campaign, when his time at Marseille ended acrimoniously in 2021.
Unlike his compatriot and former Porto coach Jose Mourinho he did not ship on his early promise regardless of excessive profile jobs at Chelsea and Spurs.
He lasted lower than a season at Chelsea and simply over one at Spurs.
Spells adopted in Russia, the place he guided Zenit St Petersburg to a league title (2015) and a Russian Cup success (2016), China after which the ill-fated journey with Marseille.
Source: www.anews.com.tr