The English team has Spanish representation, with Vctor Orta as sports director and Casilla and Pablo Hernndez in the field.
Bielsa, during a Leeds match.
He Leeds United, commanded by the special Marcelo Bielsa, has completed today his return to Premier League after 16 to without stepping on the highest category of English football.
Those of Elland Road they did not need to play, since the defeat of the West Brom at the home of Huddersfield (2-1) gives them a minimum five-point advantage, when their rival has one more league match to play.
Those of Bielsa, who passed, among others, the Athletic de Bilbaothey still have two encounters pending in which they will want to finish the season achieving the Championship title.
In the English table there is a wide Spanish representation, with Vctor Medium as sports director, Kiko Casilla will wear it, Pablo Hernndez in the center of the field and the journalist Gaby ruiz in the scouting team.
“I would like to earn a promotion on the field because these people have suffered a lot“Orta admits to EL MUNDO during confinement, when his team led the table and debated whether or not to resume the competition.
He coronavirus has touched Leeds head-on, who was forced to fire dozens of people during the confinement and that estimates in eight million the losses by the Covid-19. A figure that would have been much higher if he had not promoted to the Premier League.
“We have suffered a reality hit,” said Orta in the quarantine. “We have had to kick out 90 people, humble people, that you know, and it’s a very hard blow. It is the war of our time. “
Bielsa, the boss
At 64, the ‘Fool’ has achieved the primary objective of a historical club in only its second season in England. Last year he stayed on the doorstep and fell in the decisive Playoff, but this year he has maintained consistency in a competitive Championship and has closed the promotion with force, without having to reach the playoffs.
The Argentine took Athletic to two finals in 2012, one from the Copa del Rey and the other from the Europa League, in its first season in Bilbao. He lost both, to Barcelona and Atlético, but left a great taste in his mouth that he could not repeat the following year. They left the old San Mams with the honor of being the last team coach at the old stadium, and signed months later by the Marsella Olympicwhere he lost to the league PSG for a bad second round.
Then came his bizarre arrival at the Lazio, announced by the Italian club and rejected, resignation by, by the technician two days later. Her reason: none of the players she had asked for had been signed. She went to Little, where neither curdled, and ended up in Leeds, where it has made history.
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