Villas-Boas praises Farioli: “I want to end the season with the title” | OneFootball

FC Porto president André Villas-Boas spoke about this stage of the league campaign and Francesco Farioli’s influence at the club.

With FC Porto very close to securing the national title, André Villas-Boas stressed the need to finish the league “with the trophy in our hands” and once again highlighted the impact of Francesco Farioli. In an excerpt from the podcast “The Farioli Code”, which will premiere on Rádio Renascença, and at a time when the title race was not yet so well on track, the club president said:

“I want to celebrate at the end of the league campaign with the title in our hands, so we are taking it game by game, knowing that there will still be many difficulties for us to face along the way”.

Villas-Boas had high praise for the Italian coach, recalled the moment when he first became aware of his work, and played down the Ajax “case”:

“He is a coach who deserved to have been successful at Ajax, but if he had been, he certainly would not be at FC Porto. I think the way that league campaign ended obviously does not invalidate the coach’s quality, his methods, his leadership, the way he fought for that title until the very end. I became aware of coach Francesco Farioli more through his work in France. That was when he finally established himself as a coach, as someone revolutionary in his ideas, his methods and the way he asserts his leadership”, said the president of the Dragons.

FC Porto return to action on Saturday at 8:30 p.m. against Alverca, needing just two points to be crowned national champions.

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