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

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Dette er såå klassisk Bielsa
Marcelo Bielsa sitting on a wall at the Belvedere Stadium to watch Liverpool–Peñarol 🇺🇾

In an era of luxury boxes and billion-euro stadiums, this might be my favourite photo of modern football - humility, authenticity, and pure love of the game

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/G00CxuUWsAAQRR3?format=jpg&name=small

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Hehe, i fem år nå har Leedsfans vært representert på nesten samtlige Newell's Old Boys-kamper

Sterkt!

We love having Leeds United fans here with us at the Estadio Marcelo Bielsa for Newell's games.
For the last 5 years, there have been #LUFC fans with us at almost EVERY Newell's game.
They come to see the club that Bielsa holds most dear to his heart ❤️🖤

https://x.com/Newells_en/status/2020290720473751563?s=20

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...det måtte altså en ung svenske til før noen tok opp tråden med å ha Murderball-treninger i  Championship   

Middlesbrough replicating what Marcelo Bielsa did in Leeds United training - Kim Hellberg reveals more

It has been a fine Championship season for Middlesbrough so far, albeit the Teesside club will hope to respond to their first minor blip for some time after failing to beat Coventry City and Oxford United in their last two encounters.

After replacing Rob Edwards in November in controversial circumstances, as the 43-year-old swapped his fine start in the North East to join Wolverhampton Wanderers, Hellberg's methods have certainly caught the eye of many onlookers, with Boro often dominating matches and, in recent times, certainly putting a plethora of opponents to the sword on the scoresheet.

Perhaps then, it is no surprise that the Swede has revealed that some of the inspiration behind those methods comes from a one-time Championship title winner, whose reputation is also world-renowned.

Speaking to the Daily Mail ahead of Middlesbrough's upcoming clash with relegation-threatened Leicester City at the Riverside in midweek, Hellberg revealed that former Leeds United boss and Elland Road cult hero, Marcelo Bielsa, is the man behind some of the methods and decisions which he looks to implement at the club's Rockliffe Hall training facilities.

Antar at Pablo bruker mye av det samme med Castillon, men har ikke lest noe om det.
https://footballleagueworld.co.uk/middlesbrough-replicating-what-marcelo-bielsa-did-in-leeds-united-training-kim-hellberg/