Villas-Boas ‘thanks’ Ajax: “Had Farioli done well, not at FC Porto” | OneFootball

Just days away from potentially winning the national championship for the first time as president, André Villas-Boas lavished praise on the coach he chose last summer to lead the team, after failed bets on Vítor Bruno and Martín Anselmi.

“I became aware of coach Francesco Farioli mainly through his work in France, when he finally established himself as a coach, as someone revolutionary in his ideas, his method and the way he asserts his leadership,” he said in an interview for a Rádio Renascença podcast.

After his spell in France with Nice, he moved to Ajax and then came the well-known final stretch in which he lost the title… something that, in the view of Porto fans, may even have been a positive.

“He is a coach who deserved to have been successful at Ajax, but if he had been successful at Ajax he certainly would not be at Futebol Clube do Porto right now. So I think the way that championship ended obviously does not invalidate the coach’s quality, his method, his leadership, or the way he fought for that title until the very end. But the truth is that it made him available on the market, and from that point on we began the necessary contacts to bring him to Futebol Clube do Porto,” said the blue-and-white president.

Just over two years after his election victory that removed Jorge Nuno Pinto da Costa, Villas-Boas may once again celebrate a league title, now as president. The achievement could be sealed on Saturday, although there is no room for great euphoria or celebration.

“I want to celebrate at the end of the championship with the title in our hands, so we’re taking it game by game, knowing there will still be many difficulties along the way,” AVB warned.

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