What they couldn’t do on the court as players, they do from the bench as coaches, so this Saturday there is a clash of titans in the Premier League, when Marcelo Bielsa’s Leeds United get into the home of José Mourinho’s Tottenham, in duel corresponding to Day 17.
Madness and systems are his best weapons for the pair of defenders who were not very bright on the field and that is why they did not stand out as footballers.
Mourinho was more adventurous, His career as part of a coaching staff began as a translator and assistant to Bobby Robson, first at Sporting Lisbon and then at Porto; In the other hand, the “Crazy” Bielsa was from below, Stinging from below in the quarry of Newell’s Old Boys, where he was just showing his magic.
Both are all libraries of football, the style of play Bielsa of course, the Argentine likes to be the protagonist with the ball, very rarely his pictures are noticed waiting for the rival, which has certainly given him to direct to Spain, France, Mexico, Argentina, Chile and England.
Lover of analysis, Bielsa can spend more than a day watching videos of rivals and their own pupilsIn addition to having a myriad of rhetorical skills, his sentences are often remembered for the strength with which they arrive, which also gives a plus to the bank.
Portuguese is very similarHe likes to assemble a group, he knows how to speak, he can reach his elements, and although his teams are not as tidy as those of the “Crazy”, his results are still exceptional.
Off the track they both get into trouble too
Just as they are good at talking to their elements, they like controversy from the microphone and it has cost them at some point trouble or even punishment. Currently, Bielsa suffers from translations of the Colombian Andrés Clavijo, as the Argentine does not use English and requires help.
They are going for their fifth confrontation
José Mourinho and Marcelo Bielsa have seen each other on some occasions, 4 in total, All in Laliga; the Portuguese at the helm of Real Madrid and the Argentine with Athletic Club, in all the victory was for the European, so the South American goes for revenge.
“Every coach is an individual with his own ideas. He may be influenced by one or the other, but he is an individual. I don’t know him well (in Bielsa). I think he was the coach of Athletic Bilbao in one of the seasons that I was in Real Madrid. Now is the first time we are in the Premier League at the same time“Mourinho said in previous days.
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