Holland was this week promoted from reserve-team coach to a more senior role, where he will work as part of former Porto manager Villas-Boas' new-look backroom team. Roberto Di Matteo, Jose Mario Rocha and Daniel Sousa have been drafted in by Villas-Boas to work with existing goalkeeping coach Christophe Lollichon and Holland, who says he is excited by the prospect of Chelsea under their new leadership structure. "It has been as strange week," he told the club's official website. "This time last week I was in Spain with my family and Andre called me, asking whether I would like to be involved with the first-team staff for next season. "Half a second later I said yes and was on the way home. I spent most of last weekend in a hotel with Andre going through his philosophy and his ideas. "It's something I'm very proud to have been asked to do and I'm excited and looking forward to helping Andre and supporting the team. "If I'm honest that is also balanced with an element of sadness. At any football club when there is change and staff members go, especially if you've had a good relationship, it is sad to see people go, so all things considered it has been a really strange week." Holland guided the reserves to the national championship last season playing a brand of exciting, attacking football, which the former Crewe coach believes the first team will be embracing under Villas-Boas. "Going back right down to my childhood, I was inspired by the Brazilians of 1982," he added. "I was 12 then, but remember that World Cup with Zico, Serginho, Socrates, Falcao. "Even before then the Dutch team of the mid-70s, and I grew up on the legend of those players, so I've always been inspired by that type of football. "Coming here a couple of years ago, the development teams play with that philosophy, the reserves did last year and Andre is exactly the same so it is a good fit."
