As the elections that will decide the future of the Basque club approach, Jon Uriarte attacks the former coach of the national team, whose arrival at the club is conditional on the victory of his rival, Iñaki Arechabaleta .
This Friday is a key day for Athletic Bilbao and for Marcelo Bielsa. The Basque club are in the process of electing their new management and the sporting future of the former Chilean coach depends on the result. El Loco has publicly stated that he will assume the bench, but on one condition: that the winner of the elections is Iñaki Arechabaleta , one of the three candidates for the highest post, a prerogative that has already been taken on other occasions in his career. The problem is that the polls give Jon Uriarte as a favorite, another of the candidates, who fiercely attacked the Argentine coach and, by the way, has another favorite to take office: Ernesto Valverde, former coach of Arturo Vidal in Barcelona.
As the elections approached, Uriarte vigorously attacked El Loco, even alluding to the work methodology that has become his trademark and pitting his personality against that of Valverde. “Marcelo Bielsa is the typical person to make big claims I’ve seen 1,500 games since 1983 and until prebenjamín C “, shoot. “Ernesto is not of that style. I think he’s a much more humble and much more authentic person, one of those who does things and doesn’t have to say them and show them to the gallery”, he underlines in relation to his standard bearer to sit on the team bench.
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The allusion is not gratuitous. During the conference where he pledged his support for Arechabaleta, Bielsa revealed full knowledge of the current sports team. in his style, El Loco claimed that in his review he saw all 45 games the team played last season and analyzed in detail the movements of each of the players. . As an example, he claimed to have seen 580 actions from midfielder Alex Berenguer.
This diagnosis, which the coach makes before taking on each of the challenges he accepts, a logic that also applies to the decision to accept the Chilean team in 2007, led Bielsa to conclude that Athletic still have room to improve. “This team has a capacity for evolution “, said. Also He explained that he analyzed players from the subsidiary teams of Athletic and even from the youth categories, naturally looking for the talents most in line with the footballing ideas he proclaims and that he intends to develop if Arechabaleta wins the elections. . .
“I don’t think he’s the right fit for Athletic today. The Bielsa stage is over. Athletics needs different people, people who don’t generate conflict and that they come to a club thinking, not so much about short-term performance, but rather that they think that Athletic is an institution that has to live another 125 years and that we have to have this long-term vision », Expanded Uriarte. .
Uriarte is looking for a technician who develops a profession in the medium and long term. “That they have the current team, but that they don’t let go of their rings to rejuvenate this team and to have the talent of Lezama. We like rock and roll more than jazz. What is rock and roll? This football which connects the supporters to the players and which makes us boil. Brave, high-intensity football “, he concludes.
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Source: Latercera
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