Exciting news broke on Valentine’s evening with Aston Villa issuing a club statement on avfc.co.uk confirming the club’s holding company, V Sports, has entered into a sale and purchase agreement to acquire 46 per cent of the shares in Portuguese club Vitória Sport Clube.
The agreement, which requires ratification by members of Vitória Sport Clube, signals an important step forward in the global expansion of the V Sports portfolio.
V Sports aims to create a synergy amongst clubs in its group that will encourage the sharing of worldwide scouting networks, academy coaching methodologies, best practice and youth academy development strategies across Europe and Africa.
Director of V Sports Nassef Sawiris, said: “V Sports is delighted to be partnering with Vitória Sport Clube”.
“Discussions, which have been ongoing for almost two years, have progressed thanks to the positive steps taken by the new management team led by Antonio Miguel Cardoso whose energy and vision has been a crucial component in reaching this agreement.”
António Miguel Cardoso, President of Vitória Sport Clube, said: “Since first meeting we found out that Mr Nassef Sawiris is a man of serious commitments and available to be the right partner which VSC needs in this important moment of our history.”
The extension of V Sports’ portfolio may be extremely beneficial to Aston Villa, particularly given our commitment to youth development. With the Brookvale inner-city academy taking shape and the possibility of sharing academy coaching approaches and young academy development plans, as well as our academy players potentially obtaining loan experience in Portugal, the future is promising!
Vitória S.C. are currently fifth in Primeira Liga in Portugal. They play their home games at the Estádio D. Afonso Henriques, which has a capacity of just over 30,000. Manager Joo Miguel da Cunha Teixeira has spent most of his professional career with Vitória de Guimares and also had a one-and-a-half-year playing spell in England with Leicester City. Also on the books is former Aston Villa academy prospect Easah Suliman, who is on loan at Nacional until June 30, 2023.
And the all-important info now that we’ve adopted Vitória de Guimares (as they’re commonly known) as our second team is: what do the kits look like? Well, see below!
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