“I was the Manager of Chelsea and Tottenham before I Quit and Lost the Dakar Rally”.
Before managing Chelsea and Tottenham in the Premier League, Andre Villas-Boas guided Porto
to the 2011 Europa League championship. However, the 46-year-old changed his sport
to rally driving and eventually crashed out of the Dakar Rally in 2018.
During the first stint as Chelsea’s manager by Jose Mourinho, Villas-Boas was employed as a scout.
Before accepting his first managerial position with Portuguese team Coimbra in 2009, he followed his countryman to Inter Milan.
Despite his early success at Porto, where he also won the Primeira Liga and Portuguese Cup, V
Illas-boas was fired by Chelsea nine months after taking over at Stamford Bridge in the summer of 2011 due to his inability to establish himself in English football.
In July 2012, he was named manager of Tottenham, a position he held for just eight months before being fired.
Villas-Boas teased a move into rallying when he told Portuguese newspaper O Jogo: “For me, there is a limit and, in the next five to 10 years, I will quit coaching.” Villas-Boas went on to win the Russian title with Zenit Saint Petersburg.
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