The former Blues and Tottenham boss concedes that he made mistakes in England but is looking to return to the dugout at some stage in the future <\/p>\n
Andre Villas-Boas admits \u201cEngland was bad for me\u201d, but the former Chelsea and Tottenham manager is planning a return to coaching in Germany.<\/p>\n
Having followed in the footsteps of mentor Jose Mourinho at Porto to forge a reputation as one of the finest young bosses in world football, the Portuguese took the reins at Stamford Bridge at just 33 years of age.<\/p>\n
He would last only nine months in that post before taking on another Premier League challenge across London at White Hart Lane.<\/p>\n
Article continues below<\/span> <\/p>\n Juve on alert: Exiled Icardi may have already played his final game for Inter Sarri vindicated for dropping Kepa as Chelsea & Pedro impress in Spurs win Magnificent Mane takes centre stage as league leaders Liverpool put on a five-star show Lukaku sends reminder that his Man Utd career is far from over <\/p>\n Villas-Boas fared a little better with Spurs, making it through one full season before being moved on, but left English football aware that he had made several mistakes.<\/p>\n He told those in attendance at the WebSummit in Lisbon: \u201cEngland was bad for me, I was not flexible in my ideas.\u00a0<\/p>\n \u201cI learned to be more flexible when I went from Chelsea to Tottenham.\u00a0I always thought more in the long run without thinking in the short term.\u00a0<\/p>\n \u201cI was thinking about the future, but the results were irregular.\u201d<\/p>\n Villas-Boas has since spent time in the dugout at Zenit St Petersburg and Shanghai SIPG, with the most recent of those spells coming to a close in November 2017.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n He has moved into motor sport since then, taking part in the Dakar Rally, but still sees football forming part of his future \u2013 potentially in the Bundesliga, with Goal having revealed how he has previously been considered by Borussia Dortmund.<\/p>\n \u201cI’m learning German now, it’s a market that pleases me and I need to know the language,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n Villas-Boas will be well prepared for any challenge he takes on, but he believes there is still a lot more that football could learn from other sports when it comes to preparing players for elite competition.<\/p>\n He said: \u201cIt does not happen in the US, the NBA or the NFL.\u00a0The players spend eight hours in the centres.\u00a0<\/p>\n \u201cIt was important to do the same in football –\u00a0training in the morning, controlling nutrition, analysing opponents, for example.\u201d<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The former Blues and Tottenham boss concedes that he made mistakes in England but is looking to return to the dugout at some stage in the future Andre Villas-Boas admits \u201cEngland was bad for me\u201d, but the former Chelsea and Tottenham manager is planning a return to coaching in Germany. Having followed in the footsteps…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-765","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-football-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/765","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=765"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/765\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Editors' Picks<\/h3>\n