The second of two parts exploring Marcelo Bielsa at Leeds. How did Leeds evolve to secure Premier League promotion in 2020?
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The first of two parts exploring Marcelo Bielsa at Leeds. How did the the Argentine lead them to the beautiful failure of 2018/19?
One of modern football’s greatest visionaries, Marcelo Bielsa has influenced coaches the world over. His journey, however, began humbly in Mexico
He came in as one of football’s most intense managers and took Athletic Club to new heights – but, typically, Marcelo Bielsa left empty-handed
Where Marcelo Bielsa was derided for Spygate, Neil Warnock was let off the hook for his ridiculous Brexit comments. Why? It’s a stain on football
The last 30 years of Leeds United have been nothing if not a story on how to be careful what you wish for. They were the last champions of England before the…
THE IMAGES FROM the pitch invasion and threatening chants at the end of the Lille and Montpellier game recently shocked many, but don’t come as a great surprise to most. In an increasingly…
SOME TIME AGO, not a particularly long time since, I felt the inclination to share via my Twitter feed, a quote from enigmatic Argentine football coach, Marcelo Bielsa. The quote I shared…
After Luis Enrique announced his seemingly inevitable resignation as Barcelona coach, he made a poignant statement: “The reason clearly had to do with the way of life I need to have in this…
From Messi and Batistuta to Bielsa and Menotti, few cities in the world of football have given us more talent than the Argentine metropolis of Rosario
For close to a decade, the Chileans wandered in the wilderness looking for an identity. What eventually followed was perhaps the most entertaining and successful football in their nation’s history. Now they run…
WHEN YOU’RE A CHILD AND YOU DREAM OF BEING A FOOTBALLER, you dream of playing in games like the one Marseille and Paris Saint-Germain played out on Easter Sunday, 2015. Going into…
As featured on Guardian Sport With one brief, shocking press conference, he was gone. Marcelo Bielsa announced to the media at the Stade Vélodrome following Olympique Marseille’s 1-0 loss to Caen that he had…
Multiple theories persist regarding the conception of football styles. Specific styles can sometimes be traced back to the coaches and players directly implicated in their promulgation. However, some propose that there are more…