Dakar detour for Villas-Boas

PARIS - Portuguese soccer manager Andre Villas-Boas will drive in the Dakar Rally in January, the organizers announced on Wednesday.

Villas-Boas, who has coached Porto, Chelsea, Tottenham Hotspur, Zenit St Petersburg and, most recently, Shanghai SIPG, will drive a Toyota Hilux in the two-week race that starts on Jan 6 in Lima, Peru, and traverses the Andes before finishing in Argentina.

Villas-Boas is reviving a family tradition, his uncle Pedro Villas-Boas drove in the race in 1982 in a 4x4.