Luís André de Pina Cabral de Villas-Boas (born 17 October 1977 in Porto) is a Portuguese football manager currently managing FC Porto.
He is regarded as unique in the sense that he has no football playing experience, became a coach of a major club with very little head coaching experience, and achieved this role at a very young age. He is currently the youngest football manager in the Portuguese league.
Coaching career
After starting at a very young age on several positions in F.C. Porto's observation department under the guidance of then manager Bobby Robson, who hired him because of his fluent knowledge of English, he achieved his UEFA C coaching licence as a minor at the age of 17 in Scotland. He then had a short stint as head coach of the British Virgin Islands national football team at the age of 21, before he moved onto a career as an assistant under the management of José Mourinho at Porto. As Mourinho moved clubs to Chelsea and Internazionale, Villas-Boas followed suit.
Académica
At the start of the 2009–10 season, he abandoned Mourinho's staff to pursue a career as manager, and he soon found a job at Portuguese Liga's Académica filling a vacancy created by Rogério Gonçalves' resignation in October 2009. At the time of Villas-Boas' appointment, Académica were at the bottom of the league and still without wins, but their luck started to change as he introduced a new style, leading them to a safe eleventh place, 10 points clear from relegation. In addition to that, Académica also reached the 2009–10 Portuguese League Cup semi-finals, losing against Porto at Estádio do Dragão with a late goal from Mariano González. His impact at Académica was immediate, not only because of solid results, but also because of the attractive football displayed by the team, which led to intense media speculation linking him with the vacant job at Sporting Clube de Portugal after the departure of Carlos Carvalhal in the summer of 2010.
Porto
When Jesualdo Ferreira left F.C. Porto, his name was also linked with the job at Estádio do Dragão, and Villas-Boas was finally announced as their new manager on 2 June 2010, having been presented on 4 June.[4] On 7 August 2010, he won his first trophy when Porto beat Benfica 2–0 in the Portuguese Supercup.
On 11 December 2010, Villas-Boas set the club record for the most matches across all competitions unbeaten, a record previously held by José Mourinho at 33 matches
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