Former Chelsea manager Villas-Boas elected president of FC Porto

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Former Chelsea and Tottenham Hotspur manager, Andre Villas-Boas has been elected president of Portuguese football giants, FC Porto, ending the 42-year reign of Jorge Nuno Pinto da Costa.

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.

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