After 42 years, Jorge Nuno Pinto da Costa has ceased to be the President of FC Porto, a major Portuguese football team. The new man at the saddle of affairs is Andre Villas-Boas, a former manager of Chelsea and Tottenham Hotspur.
Villas-Boas, 46, obtained 21,489 votes, to just 5,224 for his 86-year-old rival, who had won his previous 15 successive elections to head ‘The Dragons’.
“What a historic night… our club is alive and today proved its strength,” said Villas-Boas, in a statement issued by Porto.
The 2010–11 Porto coach, who is 46 years old, comes home to take on the role oas the 34th president in the club’s history. Although his coaching career did not pan out as he had hoped, he now has the opportunity to establish himself at his home club in the greatest role imaginable.
The career of Villas-Boas began at a very young age. He started mentoring Bobby Robson at the age of sixteen. At twenty-one, he was coaching the Virgin Islands, and he later joined Jose Mourinho’s coaching staff. He continued to support him at Porto, Chelsea, and Inter Milan until starting his managerial career in 2009 at Academica de Coimbra.
Ever since Pinto da Costa was initially elected in 1982, Porto has won an incredible amount of trophies, including 23 league crowns, the 1987 European Cup, and the 2004 Champions League.
But this season, things have taken a bad turn.
After retiring from coaching, Villas-Boas will face a fresh task as he concentrates on the presidential race after his turbulent tenure at Marseille culminated.
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