Bielsa building bridges

A few months after moving to Chile to become the national team coach, or so the story goes, Marcelo Bielsa decided to buy a car. Heading along to a showroom, the Argentinian picked out an old make now used only by taxi drivers, the type of car he once drove in Mexico during his time in charge at Atlas and America. The showroom owner told him a new model was now available, with no frills or fancy trimmings. Known for his taste for the understated things in life, Bielsa accepted the owner’s offer and drove away with his unremarkable new purchase, which, thanks to him, has since become one of the best-selling cars in Chile.

That anecdote is typical of the man they call El Loco and underlines the impact he has had in his adopted homeland since guiding the national team back to the FIFA World Cup™ finals for the first time in 12 years. The manner in which they achieved qualification, finishing second in the South American Zone behind Brazil and playing some exciting, attacking football in the process, has brought further praise Bielsa’s way. All that remains to be seen now is whether he can earn the kind of adulation that the people of Korea Republic lavished on Dutch tactician Guus Hiddink after their run to fourth place at Korea/Japan 2002.

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