A beautiful good morning! Soccer teacher Marcelo Bielsa is itching again and it looks like he’s going back to an old love. After the legendary rise and relegation with Leeds United, the Spanish Primera División has apparently come back into focus.
Bielsa’s press conferences, which sometimes get out of hand, are legion. You don’t always understand everything the maestro wants to tell us, but it always sounds good. On “Flag Day” (Monday), one of Argentina’s most important holidays, Bielsa used a fidelcastro monologue-length video to underscore his intention to once again take Basque top-flight club Athletic de Bilbao under his wing. Bielsa held the job between 2011 and 2013. Two extremely successful seasons for the Basques. Athletic reached the finals of the Europa League and the Copa del Rey in the first. Although both were lost (against Atlético Madrid and FC Barcelona), what the…
