Pinto da Costa snubbed peace gesture: new book on Villas-Boas

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·6 September 2025

Pinto da Costa snubbed peace gesture: new book on Villas-Boas

The book by Octávio Lousada Oliveira, ‘April Captain’, hits the shelves on Tuesday, the 9th. According to the Portal dos Dragões, the work mainly focuses on the 2024 electoral campaign that led André Villas-Boas to the presidency of FC Porto and thoroughly analyzes his early days in the club's leadership. An excerpt also reveals how the current president, the day after the elections – in the classic match against Sporting at Dragão (2-2), on April 28 – immediately tried to bury the hatchet with Pinto da Costa that had been wielded during the campaign, without success.

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