(Reuters) - He watches matches perched on a bucket, lives in a one-bedroom flat above a shop and holds his staff meetings in a local Costa coffee shop.
Marcelo Bielsa, who has taken Leeds United back to the English Premier League after a 16-year absence, is one of soccer's most endearing and enigmatic characters and has developed a cult following in many of the places he has coached.
"I turned off the light, closed the curtains... I burst into tears. I could not understand what was happening around me," he said, though he also recognised that, as his daughter had just recovered from a serious illness, he might be over-reacting. Bielsa, whose brother Rafael is a former Argentina foreign minister, spends much of the match pacing up and down in his area, hunched on his knees or sitting on his trusty bucket.
He chose to live in the West Yorkshire town of Wetherby, where he is often seen in the local supermarket, so he could walk to the training ground.His philosophy explains the somewhat eclectic career -- Atlas, Espanyol, Newell's Old Boys, Argentina, Chile, Athletic Bilbao, Marseille, Lille and Lazio, where he quit after two days because conditions were not what he had expected.
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