Forty six year old Villas-Boas obtained twenty one thousand four hundred and eight nine votes, to just five thousand two hundred and twenty four for his 86-year-old rival, who had won his previous fifteen successive elections to head ‘The Dragons’.
Villas-Boas enjoyed his most successful managerial spell at Porto.
Aged 33, he guided them in the 2010/11 season to the domestic double, crowned champions without losing a game the Portuguese Cup and the Europa League.
The victory in the Europa League beating Portuguese rivals Braga, made him the youngest coach ever to win a European club trophy.
