{"id":444927,"date":"2011-06-21T11:22:00","date_gmt":"2011-06-21T11:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/06\/21\/chelsea-bound-andre-villas-boas-quits-as-porto-coach\/"},"modified":"2011-06-21T11:22:00","modified_gmt":"2011-06-21T11:22:00","slug":"chelsea-bound-andre-villas-boas-quits-as-porto-coach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/06\/21\/chelsea-bound-andre-villas-boas-quits-as-porto-coach\/","title":{"rendered":"Chelsea-bound Andre Villas-Boas quits as Porto coach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<h3>By Miles Chambers<\/h3>\n<h4>21 Jun 2011 12:22:00<\/h4>\n<\/p>\n<div readability=\"99.90085796\">\n<div readability=\"14.4833333333\">\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"FC Porto Head Coach, Andre Villas Boas\" src=\"http:\/\/u.goal.com\/132000\/132055_news.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>FC Porto Head Coach, Andre Villas Boas<\/p>\n<h4>Related Links<\/h4>\n<h4>Teams<\/h4>\n<h4>Players<\/h4>\n<\/div>\n<p><span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.goal.com\/en-gb\/people\/portugal\/43211\/andr%C3%A9-villas-boas\">Andre Villas Boas<\/a> is on the brink of becoming <a href=\"http:\/\/www.goal.com\/en-gb\/teams\/england\/96\/chelsea\">Chelsea<\/a>&#8216;s new manager after resigning as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.goal.com\/en-gb\/teams\/portugal\/292\/porto\">Porto<\/a> coach.<br \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>A fax on behalf of the 33-year-old was received by Porto announcing the termination of his contract, and the club have now confirmed his resignation in a statement to the stock exchange, meaning he is free to sign with Chelsea after they paid the \u00a313.2 million release clause in his contract.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The statement reads: \u201cPorto Football Club informs the market that Porto Football Club was today notified of the intention of its coach, Andre Villas Boas, to rescind, with no just cause, his sporting contract of employment with this company, activating the respective release clause, with immediate effect.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTherefore, the employment contract will be considered, by this company, rescinded, with the deposit of the amount specified in the release clause.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><span>Chelsea have been searching for a manager since relieving Carlo Ancelotti of his post at the end of the season after he failed to build on his double-winning first season at the club.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Villas-Boas, who supported Porto as a child, won the treble in his first year of management at the club last season.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>He managed to break multiple records in his short time there, including highest number of consecutive wins in the Portuguese league and the biggest margin of points over the second-placed team.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>He became the youngest coach to ever win a European competition when he guided the Portuguese league champions to victory in the Europa League just over a month ago.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Prior to Porto, Villas-Boas was manager at Academica in Portugal for the 2009-10 season, which was the catalyst for being hired as Porto head coach.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The young Portuguese coach also worked with Jose Mourinho at Chelsea and Inter during his respective stints at the clubs.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><span><span id=\"divAdnetKeyword\"\/><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><em>Our<span>\u00a0<\/span><\/em><span><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/GoalUK\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/u.goal.com\/93900\/93900.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"48\" height=\"11\" \/><\/em><\/a><\/span><em>\u00a0provides the best breaking news online and our\u00a0<\/em><span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/GoalUK\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/u.goal.com\/93800\/93899.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"49\" height=\"10\" \/><\/em><\/a><\/span><em>\u00a0football fan community is unmatched worldwide. Never miss a thing again!<\/em><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Link:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.goal.com\/en-gb\/news\/2896\/premier-league\/2011\/06\/21\/2541413\/chelsea-bound-andre-villas-boas-quits-as-porto-coach\" title=\"Chelsea-bound Andre Villas-Boas quits as Porto coach\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Chelsea-bound Andre Villas-Boas quits as Porto coach<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> By Miles Chambers 21 Jun 2011 12:22:00 FC Porto Head Coach, Andre Villas Boas Related Links Teams Players Andre Villas Boas is on the brink of becoming Chelsea &#8216;s new manager after resigning as Porto coach. A fax on behalf of the 33-year-old was received by Porto announcing the termination of his contract, and the club have now confirmed his resignation in a statement to the stock exchange, meaning he is free to sign with Chelsea after they paid the \u00a313.2 million release clause in his contract. The statement reads: \u201cPorto Football Club informs the market that Porto Football Club was today notified of the intention of its coach, Andre Villas Boas, to rescind, with no just cause, his sporting contract of employment with this company, activating the respective release clause, with immediate effect. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":444928,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-444927","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-local-news"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Chelsea-bound Andre Villas-Boas quits as Porto coach - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/06\/21\/chelsea-bound-andre-villas-boas-quits-as-porto-coach\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Chelsea-bound Andre Villas-Boas quits as Porto coach - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"By Miles Chambers 21 Jun 2011 12:22:00 FC Porto Head Coach, Andre Villas Boas Related Links Teams Players Andre Villas Boas is on the brink of becoming Chelsea &#039;s new manager after resigning as Porto coach. 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