Former Chelsea manager Villas-Boas elected president of FC Porto
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Lisbon: Former Chelsea and Tottenham Hotspur manager Andre Villas Boas has been elected president of Portuguese football giants FC Porto, ending the 4...
Lisbon: 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.
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.
Villas-Boas enjoyed his most successful managerial spell at Porto.
Aged just 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.
