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...Portugal, when AVB said he was rallying around his country ahead of Euro 2020, he meant it very literally
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“I’M OVER HERE, DANIEL!”
Harry Redknapp was known for hanging out of car windows during his time at Tottenham – and another ex-Spurs boss has taken it even further.
Andre Villas-Boas hung out of a car door recently to celebrate his result at the Rally de Portugal, on his World Rally Championship debut. The 43-year-old has long been a motorsport enthusiast – during his Chelsea days, he expressed a dream to emulate his uncle by competing in the Dakar Rally.
Villas-Boas fulfilled that ambition in 2018, after leaving Shanghai SIPG. He later moved to Marseille, but left in March after criticising the decision to sign Olivier Ntcham without his agreement. AVB was at the wheel in a different sense on his rally return, and finished a respectable 32nd out of 44 in Portugal, as the third-highest Portuguese driver.
With the Spurs job vacant, sadly it wasn’t enough to grab the attention of Daniel Levy, who instead preferred to approach every manager in Europe, Bobby Davro, Shirley Bassey and the whale that swam up the Thames before even contemplating giving Villas-Boas another go.