My father took me to Estoril for the Grand Prix and my uncle was involved two times in the Dakar. So very, very special. One of those things that you can only dream of. He talked a lot on the pitch and he always took up good tactical positions. Villas-Boas got his big break in He was 16 and was living with his parents in what was then a new apartment block on Rua Tenente Valadim.
Robson and his wife Elsie lived in the same building. As a fanatical Porto fan, Villas-Boas could not help but confront the manager of his club when he bumped into him, wanting to know why he was not playing the striker Domingos Paciencia who has since gone on to manage Braga and was Villas-Boas' opposite number in the Europa League final.
Robson liked the boy's chutzpah and asked him to leave a report in his letterbox. He liked what he read, so he asked Villas-Boas to keep writing them for him. He started to take his protege down to training. Then he started taking Villas-Boas with him when he went down to Foz, the area of bars and restaurants at the mouth of the river Douro.
Over a meal or coffee, Robson would talk football with his coaching staff and it was there that Villas-Boas first came across Robson's outspoken interpreter, Jose Mourinho.
Robson formalised Villas-Boas' work by telling Porto to take him on as a youth coach, but he also helped him to start getting his coaching badges, persuading the English FA to let him on to a Lilleshall course even though he was still only He had listened a lot to Bobby and you could tell he'd had a big influence on him.
Villas-Boas had planned to go to university and hoped to become a sports journalist. After meeting Robson, those plans changed. He plunged straight into getting his coaching licenses, attending courses at the Inverclyde National Sports Centre in Largs.
It must have been daunting coming to a foreign country and being younger than your classmates but he sailed through. Villas-Boas wanted to put some of his theories into practice and took the first opportunity, becoming technical director of the British Virgin Islands. But when he started to work he surprised me. He made a plan for all the teams, youth to senior, and had a manual with tactics and training plans, full of information.
He was great with computers too. He got some of them coaching the younger players who went on to become internationals, so he left a mark. Things did not work out for him there and he left the club the following March, although the team he had created went on to win the UEFA Champions League under caretaker manager Roberto di Matteo. He then spent two years at Zenit, before moving to Shanghai in November He left in November after not wishing to renew his contract. Villas-Boas has strong English family connections, his paternal grandmother is Margaret Kendall, whose mother moved to Portugal from Manchester to start a wine business.
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