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MARSEILLE, Oct 26 — Andre Villas-Boas loves Marseille and the French giants’ supporters love him for ending their seven-year absence from the Champions League, in which they host Pep Guardiola’s Manchester City this week. There was a once a time, a decade ago now, when “AVB” and Pep were...

Marseille’s Portuguese coach Andre Villas-Boas gestures during the French L1 football match between Lorient and Olympique de Marseille at the Moustoir stadium in Lorient October 24, 2020. — AFP pic

The young Villas-Boas shared some of the same reference points as Guardiola. Both crossed paths with Jose Mourinho in the early years of his career and Bobby Robson was a mentor to both, giving a young Villas-Boas work in the scouting department at Porto and then making Pep a central part of his team at Barcelona.

Their paths did not cross then, but they will now, with Villas-Boas hoping to outfox Guardiola and damage City’s European prospects. France’s best-supported club remains the only Ligue 1 team ever to have won the competition, in 1993. “The most important thing is that I am very happy here. I am emotionally attached to this club, to its history, the players who have played here, its impact in Europe. It’s magnificent.”

 

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