On the eve of his adventure at the Dakar 2018 races, Andre Villas Boas spoke to Italian newspaper La Repubblica. Villas Boas touched on his experience at Inter, where he was part of José Mourinho’s backroom staff, here are his words: “I had a great time at Inter with Jose. I wanted to give him more, to start my career. I wanted to be on the field, with more responsibilities, but Jose only saw me as a match analyst of the rival teams, he wanted to keep me in that role for another 10 years. We had a strong argument at one point and we took different paths since then. I owe him a lot, I will always be grateful to him. He remains unique, formidable, a winner, one of the best three in the world. I do not regret anything from back then. Our football ideas are different. Some coaches are more dictatorial, I prefer to be democratic, to talk “.
The Portuguese then became rather critical when discussing the influx of Chinese investors in football. This is a topic he knows well having coached recently in China at Shanghai SIPG: “The new investors are not football people, the results of Milan and Inter are an example. I ended up leaving China because politics got in the way. To build a winning National team, all of a sudden they changed the rules by reducing the number of foreigners.There I was happy and doing well, we had a team that could win, but under those conditions I preferred to leave “.
