Andre Villas-Boas has been free since February last year. It was then that he parted ways with Marseille, where he worked for less than two years. He was most successful in his home country. In 2010, he won the Portuguese Super Cup with FC Porto, a year later the national championship, the national cup and the Europa League.
He was supposed to be the “new Mourinho”
From Portugal, he moved to the Premier League, where he worked for Chelsea London and Tottenham – for both teams without much success. He didn’t even work a full season at Chelsea. He left the team fifth in the league in the middle of the season after being eliminated in the 1/8 finals of the Champions League. In the next season of the English league, he took fourth position with Tottenham. Then he moved to Russia (he won the championship and the national cup with Zenit Saint-Petersburg) and China (Shanghai Port).
Villas-Boas has worked for some of the top teams in Europe, but seemed to be making a bigger career as a coach. While still training in Portugal, he was called “the new Jose Mourinho” by journalists. Like his senior compatriot, he broke out of FC Porto and then transferred to Chelsea.
Villas-Boas is also famous for its controversial statements – when his Marseille lost 3-0 to FC Porto a year ago, equalizing a record 12 consecutive Champions League defeats, the Portuguese coach could not stand it. – To play shit in the Champions League, you have to get into it first. We did it, and now we are shitty – But so far the similarities with Mourinho, who has achieved much more as a coach so far, end there.
Another Portuguese?
The strong point of Villas-Boas is already a lot of experience, despite his relatively young age for a coach – he turned 44 in October. He also led the stars of world football. The risk is that he has never worked as a national team general manager before. At 21, he was briefly Technical Director of the British Virgin Islands National Team.
The question is, is the Polish Football Association ready to cooperate with another Portuguese after parting ways with Paulo Sousa? Villas-Boas brought Arkadiusz Milik to Marseilles, praising our forward very much. However, he worked with the Pole for a short time. He fell into conflict with the club’s management, resigned, was suspended, and finally parted ways by mutual agreement.
Curiosity:
The remuneration of Villas-Boas may be a controversial issue, because it is not known what financial ceiling for the future coach will be decided by the Polish Football Association. There are voices that the activists in the face of the lack of time – play-offs for the World Cup in Qatar will take place in March – may decide to choose a coach from Poland who knows our players better.
– I do not want to say one hundred percent that it will be a Pole, because many names and proposals come to me – said PZPN president Cezary Kulesza in Monday’s Sport.pl Live program, when asked about who will succeed Paulo Sousa. Kulesza had previously announced that on January 19, at a meeting of the union’s board, we would know the name of the new coach of the Polish national team.
Source: Sport
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