For a man nicknamed 'El Loco' (mad man) and with little silverware in his long managerial career, Marcelo Bielsa is an unlikely hero to a younger ...
Leeds manager Marcelo Bielsa has few trophies to his name but he is revered by Pep Guardiola AFP/Adrian DENNISLONDON: For a man nicknamed 'El Loco' and with little silverware in his long managerial career, Marcelo Bielsa is an unlikely hero to a younger generation of coaches including Pep Guardiola and Mauricio Pochettino.
There was plenty of heartbreak along the way but perhaps none more so than in Bielsa's eventful first season at Elland Road. A FIFA fair play award also came El Loco's way last season for allowing Aston Villa to equalise after Leeds had scored with a Villa player down injured. "If they had been 38-game seasons I don't know if the players physically and mentally could stand another 19 games," Ricardo Lunari, another former Bielsa player to later become a coach, told Sky Sports.
Many expected Bielsa to walk. But in his second season he has managed to leave a legacy similar to that he left at Newell's - where the club's stadium now bears his name - and with the Chilean national team, whom he led to a first World Cup in 12 years.
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