At 33 years old, he is the youngest coach to win a UEFA Europa League and he has already outshining some of the awesome achievements of his mentor Jose Mourinho — the last manager to win this tournament & champions league for Porto back in 2003 when Villas-Boas worked as the club's scout.
At this young age, this achievement becomes the admirable example for the fresh faces coaching the teams for glory. Parting the dominance of gaffers of 4 English clubs in Premier League; European football is renovating with some juvenile mentors drilling vigorously for glory.
Here are some young guns celebrating the jackpot after hard hitting.
1- Jürgen Klopp-Borussia Dortmund (Germany): He is one of the best known and most successful coaches in the Bundesliga. The club has made a miraculous comeback under this 43 year old manager. The recent transformation of club from middle order to top Bundesliga leader lifting the trophy in just 2 years of efforts under him is amazing.
2- Didier Deschamps-Marseille (France): The Bayonne-born 42 years old Deschamps is the last captain to have lifted a trophy for Marseille, winning the 1993 Champions League. The ex-French international winning the 1998 world cup in home grounds chosen again by Marseille in 2009 striving to add more titles after winning the season with his help.
3- Josep "Pep" Guardiola-Barcelona (Spain): After the departure of Frank Rijkaard in 2008 Guardiola become the mentor of the team succeeding on all major home and European turfs. Highly waving the Catalan club's flag beating and dominating the big names of the game, this 40 year old led the club to almost unmatched success in the history of football proving Barcelona is the best club in the world.
4- Massimiliano Allegri-A.C. Milan (Italy): After winning the 2 straight titles of best coach in Serie A with Cagliari from 2008-2010, this 43 year old got request from Italian giant AC Milan last year to manage. He left no stone unturned after taking the charge of Milan with his extravaganza ; helping them to win the Serie A title after the drought of 7 years.
5- Ally McCoist- Rangers (Scotland): Distilled and blended for perfection like Scotch whisky, he is the true legend of his own. This 48 year old scotch is the current manager of Rangers, where he spent 15 long years as player and now as winning mentor for titles. Apart from that he was the commentator of EA Sports’ FIFA series video games, sports pundit and Member of Order of the British Empire (MBE) to name a few.
6- Ståle Solbakken- F.C. Copenhagen (Denmark): The Norwegian born 43 year old imparted the concrete success to F.C. Copenhagen, clinching Superliga titles in 2006, 2007, 2009, 2010 and 2011, as well as acquiring the 2007 Superliga Manager of the Year award. He's a prominent football figure in Denmark and Norway. In the coming season he'll be in FC Köln of Germany as the manager for a new challenge.
7- Frank de Boer- AFC Ajax (Netherlands): The true Ajax model, who played and commenced his coaching career with the same club in 2007 from youth wing to senior squad of the club right now. Besides that he also assisted his services to Netherlands football team in 2010 World cup football. This 41 year old former Dutch defender successfully defended the Eredivisie title of 2010-11 in his current spell.
8- Ernesto Valverde- Olympiacos F.C. (Greece): This charismatic 47 year old Spaniard hovering his armada gallantly on Greek waters proves that he's no comparison with other similar in fight; giving two titles to Olympiacos in Super league for 2008-09, 2010-11. The ex-Barcelona and Athletic Bilbao player earned the best of his fortunes as player from 1988-90 winning UEFA Cup Winners Cup and Spanish Cup.
Among them there are few more young Turks leading the top leagues of the countries are:
9- Ricardo Moniz (46 years) from FC Red Bull Salzburg (Austria)
10- Ertuğrul Sağlam (41 years) from Bursaspor (Turkey)
11- Thorsten Fink (43 years) from FC Basel (Switzerland)
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