Ex-Manager / Head coach: Marcelo Bielsa

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Dette kunne vært postet i trådene til ex-spillerne Dallas og Forshaw, men det gjelder like mye Marcelo Bielsa, synes jeg.

https://www.yorkshireeveningpost.co.uk/sport/football/leeds-united/why-leeds-united-veteran-almost-sought-elland-road-exit-before-full-extent-of-marcelo-bielsas-genius-revealed-stuart-dallas-adam-forshaw-4823098

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...Bielsa er fortsatt Bielsa     

Dere har vel lest historien om at en 'iberiansk' supportergruppe av Leeds ønsket ham som ærespresident (om det er det rette ordet). Men måten det skjer på er bare veldig Bielsa.

Martin Bland is chairman of Leeds United Iberia, an umbrella group established last year to give representation to fans living across the Iberian Peninsula.
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And having subsequently set up and grown the Leeds United Iberia network, it was decided by the groups that they should be ambitious with their selection of an honour president. Bielsa's name topped their wishlist and a two-pronged approach was made to the Argentinian.
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"I got in touch with Stix Lockwood [former player liason officer at Leeds United] just to see if he was still in in contact with Marcelo, which he is from time to time. So I drafted a letter to Marcelo, telling him about the group, asking if he would do the honor of representing us and passed it on to Stix who got it to Marcelo. We backed it up with a written copy that I posted to him at the Uruguayan Football Federation, and to our surprise and shock, got a reply saying, yes, he would be honored to take up the position.
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"But he wanted a conversation first, just to fully understand what we were looking for and tell us what he needed from his side. So we waited for that to happen, and then out of the blue, about two weeks ago, he rang me at home one morning while I was sitting having a coffee. Immediately, I obviously knew who it was, and he spoke for 16 minutes - it was one of the most incredible moments of my life that Marcelo Bielsa rings me at home. He was very generous about his desire to represent us. And everybody knows that if Marcelo says something, he means it."
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"Typical Marcelo really - we weren't allowed to publish [news of his honorary presidency] until Leeds had won promotion," Martin told the YEP.

"He said that he said around football, there are many bad people who will take any piece of news and twist it to their own agenda. And what he didn't want was that, in any way, shape or form, anybody suggested that he was interfering in what Leeds were doing, what Daniel Farke was doing. And so we were to sit on it until promotion had run its course, so that nobody could twist the message. He said, until we won promotion and I said let's just wait untill the end of the season.

(dette er utdrag), alt er her
https://www.yorkshireeveningpost.co.uk//sport/football/leeds-united/leeds-united-news-marcelo-bielsa-2025-promotion-request-and-16-minute-phone-call-5124263

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...Bielsa er fortsatt Bielsa     

Dere har vel lest historien om at en 'iberiansk' supportergruppe av Leeds ønsket ham som æresmedlem (om det er det rette ordet). Men måten det skjer på er bare veldig Bielsa.

Martin Bland is chairman of Leeds United Iberia, an umbrella group established last year to give representation to fans living across the Iberian Peninsula.
...
And having subsequently set up and grown the Leeds United Iberia network, it was decided by the groups that they should be ambitious with their selection of an honour president. Bielsa's name topped their wishlist and a two-pronged approach was made to the Argentinian.
...
"I got in touch with Stix Lockwood [former player liason officer at Leeds United] just to see if he was still in in contact with Marcelo, which he is from time to time. So I drafted a letter to Marcelo, telling him about the group, asking if he would do the honor of representing us and passed it on to Stix who got it to Marcelo. We backed it up with a written copy that I posted to him at the Uruguayan Football Federation, and to our surprise and shock, got a reply saying, yes, he would be honored to take up the position.
...
"But he wanted a conversation first, just to fully understand what we were looking for and tell us what he needed from his side. So we waited for that to happen, and then out of the blue, about two weeks ago, he rang me at home one morning while I was sitting having a coffee. Immediately, I obviously knew who it was, and he spoke for 16 minutes - it was one of the most incredible moments of my life that Marcelo Bielsa rings me at home. He was very generous about his desire to represent us. And everybody knows that if Marcelo says something, he means it."
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"Typical Marcelo really - we weren't allowed to publish [news of his honorary presidency] until Leeds had won promotion," Martin told the YEP.

"He said that he said around football, there are many bad people who will take any piece of news and twist it to their own agenda. And what he didn't want was that, in any way, shape or form, anybody suggested that he was interfering in what Leeds were doing, what Daniel Farke was doing. And so we were to sit on it until promotion had run its course, so that nobody could twist the message. He said, until we won promotion and I said let's just wait untill the end of the season.

(dette er utdrag), alt er her
https://www.yorkshireeveningpost.co.uk//sport/football/leeds-united/leeds-united-news-marcelo-bielsa-2025-promotion-request-and-16-minute-phone-call-5124263

Han synker ikke akkurat i anseelse blant Leeds-fansen med sånne historier 😊

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Gratulerer med 70-årsdagen, Marcelo!
Happy 70 birthday to the GOAT Marcelo Bielsa 🎉
https://x.com/LUFCMOTcom/status/1947175457302118424

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...eg slutter aldri å la meg fascinere. Denne nikjærheten, detaljrikdommen, kunnskapstørsten...

"When I arrived, they told me we would play Stoke City. I knew of their reputation, of their style. I went to the library. I found the videos. Not of the current team, no. The foundation. The source. I watched, for two weeks, only the throws of Rory Delap. Every throw. The position of the hips, the rotation of the torso, the release of the ball. The trajectory. I watched the movement of the players, not the ones who received the ball, but the ones who moved away, the ones who created the space. I had to understand the philosophy. The soul of the team. Even if the player is no longer there, the ideas remain. The DNA is a ghost that haunts the club."

https://x.com/Newells_en/status/1961517643606933936