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Zenit coach Villas-Boas to step down at season鈥檚 end

Andre Villas-Boas has refused a contract expansion and will step down as Zenit St Petersburg coach at the end of the current season, the former Chelsea and Tottenham Hotspur coach has said.

鈥淎t the end of the last season the club offered me the chance to extend my contract, but I refused this offer and at the end of this season I will leave my post,鈥 the 37 year-old Portuguese, currently serving a six-match touchline ban, told the club website. The former Porto manager took over at Zenit in March 2014 and helped the club win the 2014-15 Russian Premier League title. In its current campaign, Zenit is third in the table, six points behind the leader CSKA Moscow. Villas-Boas was banned by the Russian Football Union earlier this month for pushing the fourth official during Zenit鈥檚 home match with Krylia Sovetov.


 

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