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‘We were all considered mad, Marcelo was thought mad. My grandfather, my father, Maria Eugenia, my sister, were all considered mad and I was as well. The reason was that we took a different path to everybody else.’
Rafael Bielsa, Marcelo’s brother, Foreign Secretary of Argentina, 2003-05.
Marcelo Bielsa is one of football’s greatest eccentrics and greatest enigmas. He is described by Pep Guardiola as: ‘the greatest football manager in the world’. To the Tottenham manager, Mauricio Pochettino, he is ‘my footballing father, the reason I became a player, the reason I became a manager.’ This will be the first English biography of one of football’s most contradictory characters.
This is a definitive and comprehensive biography from growing up in Argentina under a military dictatorship to reviving the stricken power of Leeds United.
(P)2020 Quercus Editions Limited
Rafael Bielsa, Marcelo’s brother, Foreign Secretary of Argentina, 2003-05.
Marcelo Bielsa is one of football’s greatest eccentrics and greatest enigmas. He is described by Pep Guardiola as: ‘the greatest football manager in the world’. To the Tottenham manager, Mauricio Pochettino, he is ‘my footballing father, the reason I became a player, the reason I became a manager.’ This will be the first English biography of one of football’s most contradictory characters.
This is a definitive and comprehensive biography from growing up in Argentina under a military dictatorship to reviving the stricken power of Leeds United.
(P)2020 Quercus Editions Limited
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A triumph. Not one just for Leeds fans, or even football nerds, Bielsa's story will resonate with anyone drawn to life's maverick thinkers