{"id":445697,"date":"2011-06-22T14:09:06","date_gmt":"2011-06-22T14:09:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/06\/22\/villas-boas-can-outdo-mourinho\/"},"modified":"2011-06-22T14:09:06","modified_gmt":"2011-06-22T14:09:06","slug":"villas-boas-can-outdo-mourinho","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/06\/22\/villas-boas-can-outdo-mourinho\/","title":{"rendered":"Villas-Boas &#8216;can outdo Mourinho&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div readability=\"86.53217012\"><span><span>By Jonathan Stevenson<\/span><br \/><span>BBC Sport<\/span><\/span> <span><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/news.bbcimg.co.uk\/media\/images\/53619000\/jpg\/_53619767_avb_mou.jpg\" width=\"464\" height=\"261\" alt=\"Andre Villas-Boas and Jose Mourinho\" \/> Villas-Boas (left) was a member of Mourinho&#8217;s backroom staff for seven years<\/span> <\/p>\n<p>Former Inter Milan star Olivier Dacourt has said new Chelsea boss Andre Villas-Boas can be better than Jose Mourinho.<\/p>\n<p>Dacourt worked with both men when Mourinho was in charge at the San Siro and rates the 33-year-old highly.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Andre can be a better manager than Mourinho,&#8221; Dacourt told BBC Sport. &#8220;We have seen the student outgrow the teacher in the past and this can happen now with Villas-Boas at Chelsea.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He learned much from Mourinho but is very different. He is more human.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Former Porto boss <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/sport2\/hi\/football\/13858858.stm\" title=\"Villas-Boas named as Chelsea boss\">Villas-Boas was named Chelsea manager<\/a> on Wednesday, seven years after Mourinho was appointed to the Stamford Bridge hotseat.<\/p>\n<p>Mourinho presided over two Premier League title successes <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/sport2\/hi\/football\/teams\/c\/chelsea\/7003912.stm\" title=\"Mourinho makes shock Chelsea exit\">before being sacked in September 2007,<\/a> going on to win two Serie A titles and a Champions League with Inter before joining Real Madrid in 2010.<\/p>\n<div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/sport2\/hi\/football\/13878066.stm#skip_feature_02\">Continue reading the main story<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>1977: Born in Porto 17 October<\/li>\n<li>1993: Works as a trainee under Sir Bobby Robson at Porto<\/li>\n<li>1994: Achieves Uefa C coaching licence in Scotland<\/li>\n<li>2002: Becomes part of Jose Mourinho&#8217;s staff at Porto<\/li>\n<li>2004: Follows Mourinho to Chelsea<\/li>\n<li>2008: Moves with Mourinho to Inter Milan<\/li>\n<li>2009: Appointed manager of Academica<\/li>\n<li>2010: Named Porto boss<\/li>\n<li>2011: Wins league, cup and Europa League in first season<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p>But Dacourt, who witnessed the duo in action together at Inter while Villas-Boas was a member of Mourinho&#8217;s backroom staff, firmly believes the younger man &#8211; who won four trophies in his only full season as a manager at Porto &#8211; can improve on his mentor&#8217;s success.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;From what I have seen, Villas-Boas has taken the best bits of Mourinho and added to them,&#8221; said Dacourt. &#8220;He has also learned some things he shouldn&#8217;t do from Mourinho and that&#8217;s why I think he can be better.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We should respect Mourinho because he is a truly great coach and has won everything, but Villas-Boas wants to win games with attacking football and is his own man.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He will definitely be a success at Chelsea, no doubt. You can see what he did at Porto in the last 12 months, so it is an exciting time to be at Stamford Bridge.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Dacourt also brushed aside worries about Villas-Boas&#8217;s age &#8211; at 33, he is only a matter of months older than influential players Didier Drogba and Frank Lampard.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He is young, but he knows so much about his job already,&#8221; added Dacourt. &#8220;And as well as being a top coach, he&#8217;s a fantastic person.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I had some problems with Mourinho, but Villas-Boas always acted like nothing had happened. When a player has a problem with the manager it usually affects relationships with all the coaching staff, but he was brilliant.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He has a great human touch and the players all loved him.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Read the rest here:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/go\/rss\/-\/sport1\/hi\/football\/13878066.stm\" title=\"Villas-Boas 'can outdo Mourinho'\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Villas-Boas &#8216;can outdo Mourinho&#8217;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> By Jonathan Stevenson BBC Sport Villas-Boas (left) was a member of Mourinho&#8217;s backroom staff for seven years Former Inter Milan star Olivier Dacourt has said new Chelsea boss Andre Villas-Boas can be better than Jose Mourinho. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":404756,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-445697","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 - 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