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How Marcelo Bielsa Makes 'Average' Players Look Special

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Can genius be taught?

Marcelo Bielsa, ‘El Loco’, is one of the most influential managers of all time. But when he started coaching in 1980, he was met with a harsh reality. That talent was incredibly, incredibly rare.

And so he dedicated his career to an extraordinary pursuit. Developing a coaching program that could produce an ‘imitation’ of genius.

With a combination of unconventional exercises, physical conditioning and repetition, he got closer than he could’ve imagined to achieving his goal. But he would realise, much later, it would come at a significant cost.

Chapters:
0:00 The Genius vs The Rest
2:43 Bielsa’s Extraordinary Plan
5:52 Intensity and Conditioning
8:02 The Imitation of Greatness
9:30 Can Genius be Taught?

20 Comments

@thepurist_ Creator 9 months ago Pinned

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@hari-25-17 9 months ago

Raphihna makes complete sense now, thankyou Bielsa

@wanr5701 9 months ago

Bielsa basically a senior coach with the mentality of a youth coach. He is ready to gamble results for the sake of player development. He might not won as many trophies as his contemporaries but certainly so many players credited their transformation to him.

@Maxiinho10 9 months ago

You can see why Raphinha’s movement is so elite , it’s all Bielsa.

@ReidPattis 9 months ago (edited)

I think Marcelo Bielsa is just the beginning of a movement. Keep in mind that sports science has developed tremendously in the past 20 years alone. There are more and more ways to train ball vision, combination play, pressing, counter pressing, etc. In contrast to the newer methods, Marcelo Bielsa's methods are more draconian and outdated, but with new and improved methods, I can only imagine that the line between geniuses and mortals will be blurred further.

@hamzafaisal9517 9 months ago

As someone who has been passionate about football tactics over many years I think your channel is one of the best. I always find myself learning something completely new on a topic I thought I knew of. Bielsa is without doubt one of the most influential tactical coaches and the way he is able to get his teams to play complex attacking patterns of football at will is amazing

@souradeepsikdar7125 9 months ago

felt like you just scratched the surface.

@PRINCE_07-pri 9 months ago

He's the real life Ego from Blue Lock just obsessed with breaking down football to its core

@BassadoSport 9 months ago

A coach that has done something similar but is rarely talked about on a world level is Ricardo Antonio Lavolpe, started the trend of “playing from the back”, Guardiola saw it in Mexico while playing in Sinaloa, Lavolpe was the Mexican national team’s coach, and Guardiola took it to the world stage (champions league, global club competitions, etc), even wrote a poem/article about it; Ricardo Lavolpe made average players look so good that after his 4 year México national team’s reign ended 8-9 players from the Mexican World Cup team went to Europe in the summer after the WC, first and only time that had ever happen

@briangaita4169 9 months ago

We have him to thank for giving us Raphinha.
An imitation of Messi and Neymar.

@Catch22er 9 months ago

I came to football as a 40-something American, and I realized I liked it. After watching Bielsa at Leeds, I loved it.

@MrPeanut17lufc 9 months ago (edited)

I can't describe what Bielsa meant to me, that might sound hyperbolic but its not.

I believe you have a period in life where football means a lot more to you and as we get older, it fades, Bielsa was at Leeds when I was football mad, I still am to an extend but, not as much as when Marcelo was at Leeds.

I genuinely adored the man, I watched every interview, every press conference and never missed a game.

His love for the game is infectious, there are obviously more successful managers, there are better managers but, better doesnt mean they resonate with fans. Marcelo has a bond with Leeds and Athletic Club that very few managers in the world have with their team.

Bueno

@lyonkennedy4892 9 months ago

I was enjoying this video, then copyright issues had to ruin it. Hopefully it’s all sorted now.

@AyubKhan-xz2wv 3 months ago

One of the greatest coaches in my opinion. His work at my club Leeds demonstrates his genius. Not only that, he is a humble man which is why he is loved.

@felooosailing957 9 months ago

Bielsa: I don't like to depend on soloists

Riquelme: I don't Trust tactics

The two true antitheses of football

@S.Anderson-Bey 9 months ago

Jed Davies’s 2016 book “The Philosophy of Football: In Shadows of Marcelo Bielsa” is a gem.

@Ianbolton 9 months ago

As a Leeds United fan, I felt Bielsa's (almosyt crazy) love for the game united a city like no other manager could do. He never criticised referees or players publcally and brought a level of fairness and class to a team who were once known as 'dirty Leeds'. Football is the greatest game on the planet and he made me fall in love with all over again. And this video helped with that too. Thanks for making. Although one comment said you barely scratched the surface, I think it was perfect YouTube content. ❤

@Antichrist76 8 months ago

i've been watching football since 2013, now i'm 22 years old. in this period of time i've watched atleast 13-15k matches of football, but i don't think i would be able to watch 50k games in this whole lifetime of mine, that's crazy amount bro. absolutely insane, that too detil analysis of every move? oh my god, hell nah