Andre Villas-Boas is determined to start working immediately at FC Porto SAD

The newly appointed SAD president of FC Porto, Andre Villas-Boas, guaranteed on Tuesday that he will immediately get to work, after handing over to Pinto da Costa the leadership of the company that runs professional football I Turns on.

“The entire cycle and process that was dictated by the electoral act has been completed. Now we can say, ‘Get to work’ because we need to continue to put this club on the path to winning, which is what we want most.” Thus, everything is formalized and we get to work,” the leader emphasized in a statement reproduced on the official website of the “dragons.”

At a late morning general assembly at Porto’s Dragao stadium, 18 shareholders unanimously approved the names proposed for the company’s top management by the former coach, appointed exactly three weeks ago as the club’s 34th president.

“We will meet the rest of SAD and the group companies, sit down with everyone, make recommendations for this new four-year period and get started. The active participation of all employees is essential to running a good business and it starts with them, who give their all for Porto,” he said.

André Villas-Boas, 46, is accompanied by José Pereira da Costa, responsible for the finance department, on the executive committee of the board of directors of FC Porto’s SAD, which brings together five members, as opposed to the nine under Pinto da Costa. .

Carlos Gomes da Silva, a former administrator of the oil company Galp, was appointed vice-president on a list drawn up by Maria do Rosario Moreira, professor at the Faculty of Economics at the University of Porto, and Ana Teresa Lehmann, secretary of state. for industry of the 21st government, then headed by the socialist António Costa, from 2017 to 2018.

António Tavares and Angelino Ferreira, former financial administrator of FC Porto SAD, are responsible for presiding over the General Assembly Council and the Supervisory Board respectively, replicating the functions performed in similar bodies of the club.

The remuneration committee will be headed by Oscar Afonso, director of the Porto Faculty of Economics, while Ernst & Young Audit will remain the official auditor of the company, the heads of the four bodies of which were unanimously approved.

The exception was the ratification by a majority with one abstention of the new Advisory Council, which brings together several “notables” from the 15 existing vacancies and is headed by Fernando Freire de Souza, who was already the first person nominated for the post of club president. Supreme Council.

The new society was sworn in for the four-year period 2024-2027, a month after Andre Villas-Boas was elected president of the Dragons after defeating Pinto da Costa, leader for 42 years and 15 terms, in the most massive voting in the history of the club.

The former coach has since called for the speedy resignation of the outgoing SAD administration, but all corporate bodies continued in their duties until the end of the football team’s season, which on Sunday won the Portuguese Cup for the 20th time and the third in a row, beating recent champions” Sporting (2-1, after extra time) at Jamora.

As in other games played since the election, the two leaders sat almost side by side on the presidential stand at the National Stadium in Oeiras and embraced after the match ended, together lifting FC Porto’s only trophy for the 2023/24 season.

If Andre Villas-Boas won the first trophy in football since his presidential inauguration, 86-year-old Pinto da Costa celebrated his 45th and last in 27 seasons as leader of the SAD, founded on July 30, 1997, just as he achieved 69 sceptres , seven of them international, since the club’s first election in April 1982, cementing his status as world football’s oldest and most decorated director.