How Marcelo Bielsa Makes 'Average' Players Look Special

Can genius be taught?

Marcelo Bielsa, ‘El Loco’, is one of the most influential managers of all time. But when he started coaching in 1980, he was met with a harsh reality. That talent was incredibly, incredibly rare.

And so he dedicated his career to an extraordinary pursuit. Developing a coaching program that could produce an ‘imitation’ of genius.

With a combination of unconventional exercises, physical conditioning and repetition, he got closer than he could’ve imagined to achieving his goal. But he would realise, much later, it would come at a significant cost.