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15:05, 30-Nov-2017
Villas-Boas quits as SIPG coach to compete in Dakar rally
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Chinese Super League club Shanghai SIPG lost their head coach on Wednesday – not to another team, but to another sport.
Andre Villas-Boas has resigned from the sideline to fulfill his lifelong ambition of competing in the Dakar Rally.
The 40-year-old Portuguese, who has been in charge at Porto in his native Portugal, Chelsea and Tottenham Hotspur in England, and Zenit Saint Petersburg in Russia, resigned to join Team Overdrive and prepare for the famous auto rally.
Andre Villas-Boas in the game. /VCG Photo
Andre Villas-Boas in the game. /VCG Photo
Villas-Boas is a motorsport enthusiast whose uncle took part in the event in 1982, and will be behind the wheel of a Toyota Hilux as he tackles the 15-day rally which starts in Peru on January 6 and travels through Bolivia before finishing in Argentina on January 20.