What they couldn’t do on the field as players, they do on the bench as coaches, so on Saturday there is a clash of titans in the Premier League when Marcelo Bielsa’s Leeds United enter José Mourinho’s Tottenham home, in a duel corresponding to day 17.
Madness and systems are the best weapons for the pair of defenses that were not very bright on the field and that’s why they didn’t stand out as footballers.
Mourinho was more adventurousHis journey as part of a coaching staff began as a translator and assistant to Bobby Robson, first at Sporting Lisbon and later at Porto; on the other hand, “Loco” Bielsa went downstairs, biting into Newell’s Old Boys career, where he was slowly showing his magic.
Both are football libraries, the style of play of Bielsa Clearly, the Argentine likes to be the protagonist with the ball, very rarely his paintings are seen waiting for the rival, which gave him, no doubt, directly to Spain, France, Mexico, Argentina, Chile and England.
Lover of analysis, Bielsa can spend more than a day watching videos with rivals and her own studentsIn addition to the fact that he has endless rhetorical skills, his phrases are often remembered for the force with which they arrive, which also gives him a plus on the bench.
Portuguese is very similarHe likes to form a group, he knows how to speak, to reach his elements and, although his teams are not as tidy as the “Loco” ones, his results are still exceptional.
Off the field, they both have problems
As good as they are at talking to their elements, the controversial place of the microphone and it cost them problems or even punishments at some point. Currently, Bielsa suffers from the translations of Colombian Andrés Clavijo, because the Argentine does not speak English and needs help.
They are going for the fifth confrontation
José Mourinho and Marcelo Bielsa sometimes saw each other, 4 in total, all in LaLiga; the Portuguese who deals with Real Madrid and the Argentine with Athletic Club, in all this the triumph was for the European, so the South American takes 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 (Bielsa) well. I think he was the coach of Athletic Bilbao in one of the seasons when I was at Real Madrid. Now is the first time we are in the Premier League at the same time“Mourinho said in the previous days.
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