The argentine coach Marcelo Bielsa is known to be a bit of a character.
Who forgets his role in the curious ‘spygate’case from last year? Here he admitted to have sent his assistant off to lurk on the opposing team training before meeting with Derby. A stunt that earned him and Leeds United a penalty in the millions.
Bielsa has since then acquired the nickname ‘El Loco’, which easily translates to ‘The Crazy’, and the name did not come without reason.
Mark Gonzalez and Jose Pedro Fuenzalida, who both played on the chilean national team, where Bielsa was the national coach from 2007 to 2011, is now opening up for godteposen about how crazy he can be.
In connection with a defeat against Ecuador accusations that the temperamental Bielsa locker room.
Mad or brilliant? Marcelo Bielsa is the holder of a very special trænerstil. Photo: Matthew Childs.
He was a good sour. He did not speak with anyone. Just went back and forth, telling Gonzalez in connection with a tv show, Abrazo de GOL, on the chiliensk tv.
Suddenly, he goes into a room next door. And since we players went in there to look, he was lying on a table, completely naked and quiet in 30 minutes. As if he had made himself ready for a major operation.
– It happened actually several times. I’ll never forget when we lost 1-0 against Italy. We played well in the match. Anyway, he was so angry that he came up and peaks with the Italian coach. When we got down in the locker room, but also the clothes of sheer frustration, complements Fuenzalida.
Regardless of what one may think of his bizarre inclinations after the defeat, managed Bielsa to qualify the national team to the world championship back in 2010.
Jose Pedro Fuenzalida has also laudatory adjectives left over for the coach.
– He is a fodboldgeni. But he can also be a complete lunatic, and you just learn to deal with.
– The pressure he puts on you before matches, can be difficult to deal with. Many players are affected by it. We are all nervous, because he is very demanding, says the 34-year-old midfielder.
Leeds is number two with 56 points in the second English league.
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