‘Locovirus’ – What Argentine newspaper said about Leeds on front page after promotion won
Rosario newspaper El Ciudadano has celebrated Marcelo Bielsa’s achievements at Leeds United after the Whites’ promotion to the Premier League was sealed on Friday.
West Brom’s defeat to Huddersfield meant that Leeds will no longer be a Championship club once the current season finishes, ending their 16-year spell outside of the top-flight.
Bielsa has played a massive – if not the biggest – role in Leeds’ promotion and a newspaper in his hometown of Rosaria has paid homage to him in on their front page on Saturday.
El Cuidadano’s headline says “His United Kingdom” while creatively adding “Locovirus” to their front page too. The copy says that Leeds’ celebrations “spread like a pandemic” to all the countries Bielsa has touched in his career – including Rosario.
Will Leeds ever have a manager like Bielsa again? The man is simply a legend and it has taken him just two years.
Even if he didn’t manage to achieve promotion, Bielsa would have still gone down in the history books at Elland Road simply for being so widely loved and so different from the rest.
Bielsa isn’t afraid to go against the grain. He never hides away from taking responsibility when things go wrong. And when things go right, he is so grounded and so invested in his work that he will do whatever it takes to ensure things keep on going right.
Bielsa’s place in history not only belongs at Elland Road, it belongs in English football as a whole.
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