Villas Boas officially joins Shanghai SIPG

Everything happened in just a few hours. As anticipated on our site yesterday, Andre Villas-Boas has agreed to manager Shanghai SIPG. The Portoguese coach declined the opportunity to replace de Boer at Inter and opted for the rich contract offered by the Chinese club, where he'll replace Sven Goran Eriksson, who is coming off a disappoinitng third place finish 12 points behind champions Guangzhou Evergrande.