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Personal information | |||||||||||||||||
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Full name | Marcelo Alberto Bielsa Caldera[1][2] | ||||||||||||||||
Date of birth | [2] | 21 July 1955||||||||||||||||
Place of birth | Rosario, Argentina[2] | ||||||||||||||||
Position(s) | Defender | ||||||||||||||||
Club information | |||||||||||||||||
Current team | Uruguay (manager) | ||||||||||||||||
Senior career* | |||||||||||||||||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) | ||||||||||||||
1975–1977 | Newell's Old Boys | 25 | (0) | ||||||||||||||
1978–1979 | Instituto | 40 | (0) | ||||||||||||||
1979–1980 | Argentino de Rosario | 48 | (0) | ||||||||||||||
Total | 113 | (0) | |||||||||||||||
Teams managed | |||||||||||||||||
1982–1990 | Newell's Old Boys (scout) | ||||||||||||||||
1987–1990 | Newell's Old Boys II | ||||||||||||||||
1990–1992 | Newell's Old Boys | ||||||||||||||||
1992–1993 | Atlas (scout) | ||||||||||||||||
1993–1995 | Atlas | ||||||||||||||||
1995–1996 | América | ||||||||||||||||
1997–1998 | Vélez Sarsfield | ||||||||||||||||
1998 | Espanyol | ||||||||||||||||
1998–2004 | Argentina | ||||||||||||||||
2004 | Argentina U23 | ||||||||||||||||
2007–2011 | Chile | ||||||||||||||||
2011–2013 | Athletic Bilbao | ||||||||||||||||
2014–2015 | Marseille | ||||||||||||||||
2016 | Lazio | ||||||||||||||||
2017 | Lille | ||||||||||||||||
2018–2022 | Leeds United | ||||||||||||||||
2023– | Uruguay | ||||||||||||||||
Honours
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* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only |
Marcelo Alberto Bielsa Caldera (Spanish pronunciation: [maɾˈselo alˈβeɾto ˈβjelsa],[a] nicknamed El Loco Bielsa [ˈloko ˈβjelsa],[a] meaning "Madman Bielsa"; born 21 July 1955) is a former Argentine football player. He was most recently the head coach of Leeds United FC.
Managerial statistics
[change | change source]- As of match played 17 October 2023[3]
Team | From | To | Record | ||||
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P | W | D | L | Win % | |||
Newell's Old Boys | 1 July 1990 | 30 June 1992 | 97 | 39 | 38 | 20 | 40.2 |
Atlas | 1 July 1993 | 31 January 1995 | 77 | 29 | 20 | 28 | 37.7 |
América | 1 July 1995 | 25 March 1996 | 33 | 10 | 14 | 9 | 30.3 |
Vélez Sársfield | 1 July 1997 | 30 June 1998 | 44 | 23 | 14 | 7 | 52.3 |
Espanyol | 10 July 1998 | 19 October 1998 | 12 | 3 | 3 | 6 | 25.0 |
Argentina | 20 October 1998 | 15 September 2004 | 85 | 56 | 18 | 11 | 65.9 |
Chile | 11 July 2007 | 4 February 2011 | 51 | 28 | 8 | 15 | 54.9 |
Athletic Bilbao | 7 July 2011 | 30 June 2013 | 113 | 43 | 31 | 39 | 38.1 |
Marseille | 17 May 2014 | 8 August 2015 | 41 | 21 | 7 | 13 | 51.2 |
Lille | 24 May 2017 | 15 December 2017 | 14 | 3 | 4 | 7 | 21.4 |
Leeds United | 1 June 2018 | 27 February 2022 | 170 | 81 | 30 | 59 | 47.6 |
Uruguay | 15 May 2023 | Present | 6 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 66.7 |
Total | 743 | 339 | 191 | 213 | 45.6 |
Honours
[change | change source]Manager
[change | change source]Newell's Old Boys
- Primera División Argentina: 1990–91, 1992 Clausura
- Copa Libertadores runner-up: 1992
Vélez Sarsfield
- Primera División Argentina: 1998 Clausura[4]
Argentina
- Summer Olympics: 2004
- CONMEBOL Pre-Olympic Tournament: 2004
- Copa América runner-up: 2004
Athletic Bilbao
- Copa del Rey runner-up: 2011–12
- UEFA Europa League runner-up: 2011–12
Leeds United
Individual
- IFFHS World's Best National Coach: 2001;[6] runner-up: 2004[7]
- South American Coach of the Year: 2009[8]
- LMA Championship Manager of the Year: 2020
- EFL Championship Manager of the Month: August 2018,November 2019,[9] July 2020
- FIFA Fair Play Award: 2019[10] (shared with his club Leeds United)
- The Best FIFA Football Coach: 2020 (3rd place)[11]
Notes
[change | change source]References
[change | change source]- ↑ "Acta del Partido celebrado el 01 de junio de 2013, en Madrid" [Minutes of the Match held on 1 June 2013, in Madrid] (in Spanish). Royal Spanish Football Federation. Archived from the original on 23 May 2021. Retrieved 23 May 2021.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 "MARCELO BIELSA: THE FACTS BEHIND THE MAN". Leeds United. 15 June 2018. Retrieved 20 July 2021.
- ↑ "Managerial statistics". Soccerbase.com. Retrieved 27 July 2012.
- ↑ "Vélez le ganaba a Huracán y con el 'Loco' Bielsa lograba un nuevo campeonato" [Vélez beat Huracán and with 'Loco' Bielsa achieved a new championship] (in Latin American Spanish). Infobae. 30 May 2013. Retrieved 15 June 2018.
- ↑ "Leeds United are champions!". Leeds United F.C. 18 July 2020. Retrieved 18 July 2020.
- ↑ "Former Results". IFFHS. Retrieved 13 January 2016.
- ↑ Garin, Erik (2 August 2007). "IFFHS' World's Best Coaches of the Year 1996-2006: National Team Coaches". RSSF. Libero (IFFHS Magazine). Retrieved 27 December 2020.
- ↑ "South American Coach of the Year". Retrieved 15 May 2019.
- ↑ "Marcelo Bielsa named Manager of the Month". leedsunited.com. Leeds United. 13 December 2019. Retrieved 1 August 2020.
- ↑ "Messi, Rapinoe Crowned The Best in Milan". FIFA.com. Fédération Internationale de Football Association. 23 September 2019. Archived from the original on 23 September 2019. Retrieved 23 September 2019.
- ↑ "THE BEST FIFA MEN'S COACH". FIFA.com. Fédération Internationale de Football Association. Archived from the original on 11 December 2016. Retrieved 18 December 2020.