Not sure you listened to a word he said but sure.

Obsession with results and especially statistics is the Americanization of football

He's a professor fr

Kids nowadays would say that Bielsa is being jealous 😂

Yes, it's part of society unfortunately. I really hate the way sports fans are drained of money and even though the top players are well-off, few seem to play with joy and freedom. Football is part of so many people's identity, it's more than just a game. The creative side needs nurturing but it's all about tv companies and fatcat owners making money. Let's hope there's an improvement, somehow...

even the youtube comments are less and less attractive

Yes, basketball is boring AF as well

ya basketball and hockey used to be way better as well

@@Osc1llateW1ldly Oh, all except yours, sweetcheeks! 💋

Which club?

@@nikitapower947. Leeds United.

​@@nikitapower947what's the name of the fucking channel you fucking smooth brain?

And the players, all made full recoveries within a week of Bielsa going, shame on them

@@r1o1b1b1o1 not a Leeds fan but I knew the owners threw him under the bus.. had no clue about the players betraying him like that though… this is for real?

Your comment is gold. This is what destroyed football. There is no identity anymore, just business. Players in the 80s played for a pack of beers. Maradona played with kids in the street without caring of injuries.

You are saying what I’ve been saying for years but the so called football fans nowadays just ignore or simply dont care. They want to put all the super stars into 2-3 clubs and watch them dominate every year. The kids are too young to know about the 3 foreign players era

3 foreign players rule was dumb and removing it helped smaller teams too. Only champions making the european cup meant the european cup was shite in the 80s. Peak football was around late 90s and 00s when you had the modern format of ucl. Prob with football today is the tactics which has made the sport robotic and lack of street footballers. And money has not made people adopt same styles 😂 thats managers trying to copy pep.

@@SK-kh2rs Your comment shows your ignorance? How did it help smaller teams? Look at any league table from back in the day. Teams were a lot closer together in the table. Later on the big teams could just buy out the smaller teams. Teams like Real Madrid did not start winning again until the rule was removed. It led to loads of investors coming in and straight up buying teams bc they were assured that they could just buy success and were always guaranteed a spot in the Champions League. Even the group format was implemented so that the big teams couldn't get knocked out that easily. It's obvious you did not watch this sport at that time and don't know what you are talking about

Yep. Could've conceded 150 goals a season and still had enough to beat all the other teams in the bottom half to stay up...but when the fat American investors lose confidence you're done.

@@owenlumley6778 American investors? It was Radz/Orta running the show when he was fired.

@@dodo19923 Americans were bankrolling. Radz wasn't putting his own money in right before selling the majority share. You know it wasn't a football decision. It's not like every chairman knows nothing about the game, yet they keep making bad decisions around the manager. That's the money talking. Investors lose confidence, finances in jeopardy, manager goes.

With Bielsa Leeds were talked about and followed all over the football world, special times. The minute he was sacked they were a smaller club, diminished, just another biggish provincial UK club never going to trouble the established order. Probably the most stupid sacking ever.

Still paying the price

'Using his experience' is another euphemism you can add to the list....

the excuse was always followed, "muh common man's game" and 'muh shithousery'. Football is a classless sports with tribal warfare. Just because it's a common man's game, it doesn't have to be without any class.

@@seshoz Winning a penalty. I can't stand that one

@@seshoz Precisely! Dishonesty is deliberately being promoted absolutely everywhere. In fact, you could say that all 'Time' really is. Is the process of everything getting gradually 'Worse'. Cheers!

@@paultapner2769 Exactly! More blatant cheating. And 'Rewarded' as well.

not what he said what so ever. listen to him again

​@@Juventinosits exactly what he said its being destroyed by corporates playing a less attractive game that one size fits all thats turning fans away in their droves.

​@Juventinos u should re listen to this

@@ImYourHuckleberry_29 he said football is much more than that, it's a cultural expression, it's a way of identification and entertainment. not just entertainment.

@@Juventinos???? Yes. That was obvious in the subtitles

Marcelo, not Marcello.

This is so true , for a fleeting moment he created an environment where free flowing attacking football was allowed , and we Leeds fans and the premiership loved every minute . Whether we winning or getting hammered the football was joyous and entertaining , will never be forgotten. Thank you Marcelo 👍

Give him the England 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 job then.

Antony is killing football 😂

It's too late already. Hardly watch any football anymore these days. No more passion, joy or personality with the players, just sterile tactics and spoiled prima donnas.

You club started it all.

@@fishyfish6510 you're not wrong!

@@genustinca5565 totally agree. If you watch the Big Match Revisitedetc it's literally like watching a different game. Everything that made it exciting and entertaining has totally been drained from it.

It's very rarely the fault of the team with possession. It's the park the bus merchants that are killing the game. Man City might be a bit boring because they're so good, but very few teams are capable of playing like that. It's the likes of France and England that have killed the Euros. Teams that don't want the ball, they just want to sit back, defend and rely on individual moments of quality. Despite having all the quality in the world. Also, I can't help but think the fact Copa America is being hosted by Yankland is a factor in what he's saying. America is destroying football and commodifying it. They now own half our clubs, they've bought their way into hosting both the Copa America and the next World Cup (for the second time!), they have no love of football and no culture of genuine sports fan culture (to which Bielsa is alluding to, basically saying that football is a religion, not entertainment) and Yank owners were at the heart of the Super League proposals.

that s not the problem, the problem are teams that play antifootball parking the bus and not doing anythin else . They are more and more present nowdays

parking tactics have only increased due to teams playing possession-heavy football. either that and/or you got teams doing pressing and more pressing to counter those. it's all related to each other, and what has slowly been sucking the life out of the game.

@@spacecamel2501 The real problem is the timewasting, feigning injury and diving. All the rules should be geared to keeping the game flowing and incentivising attacking play and goals. But they're not. And there's no discipline because the yellow card/red card system is completely outdated. Refs are terrified of giving early cards and sending a player off and spoiling the game, so players can get away with everything. All tactical or violent fouls should be a yellow card. All stopping or slowing down free kicks or throw-ins should be a yellow card. All dives should be a yellow card. The game should continue if a player is down injured, just let the physio come on the pitch while the game is playing like in rugby. And stop the game if they interfere with play. This would stop 90% of players pretending to be injured and going down easily. I'd also change the red card to a penalty. So refs wouldn't be afraid to give cards out and there'd be more goals. These simple changes would make the game flow so much more, which would mean so much more football being played. The last 20 minutes of games are a joke. 9/10 they're just full of timewasting. Watch a game and count how many times a team is allowed to retrieve the ball and take a free kick without the opposition throwing or kicking the ball away, holding onto it or standing in front of the free kick. Which allows their team to all get back into position behind the ball. Football is about space and exploiting space. That's how you score goals. And the more the game flows, the more space there is, as space is usually created when the ball is turned over.

I completely blame him and his acolytes like Arteta.

It's not Pep's fault. It's the fault of lazy managers not coming up with their own ideas. It's why everyone loved Klopp's heavy metal football. It was somewhat an antidote to Pep's system. But, unfortunately not many managers are brave enough to experiment and try new things.

@@AJ-nd4nk…it really it is a shame though 🙁

Criminal!!! Get him back now

NOT a Leeds fan, but was stunned when they gave him the stick. This is the kind of manager your amazing fan base deserves. If it were up to me, I'd give him a contract for life,vot for as long as he wants it, win OR lose

I wouldn't go back if I were him. Disgraceful the way he was treated!

MOVE ON! He was going to get you relegated because of his stubbornness which is the cause of many people's failures. Yes, he's a legend and was a breath of fresh air but you can't deny that the results were not improving.

@@marktipper994 The thing is nobody gave him stick ... we all supported him

Definitely too many games. I mean Mbappe with 1 goal

Yes! Fans need to stop and see what’s going on

I stopped watching Scotland years ago because I could no longer accept that all we did was try to stop others from playing. We always get hammered playing the worst kind of football and no one seems to give af that what they’re watching is meant to be entertainment, not battles or survival. We never play with art. It is the mentality of us as people from grass roots. It will never change. Coaches encourage young boys to give the ball away not to try to take a player on, god forbid he should lose it in so doing.

Unwatchable...not football...I tried but the beautiful game is dead.

Personally I don’t think the style of play is the issue these days. The problem is football fans are getting things like financial fair play and PSR rules rammed down their throats. Smaller teams in England have had any bit of hope ripped away from them because the day they might have owners who have money to spend wouldn’t be allowed. The premier league is the most corrupt organisations in modern society. Just this month alone teams have had to make some absolute bonkers transfers just to avoid points deductions. So smack bang in the middle of the euros the fans that should be supporting England are more bothered about FFP. Stinks to the core. These ball bags are gonna suck every bit of enjoyment out of it.

The game is actually more entertaining now as a whole. I mesn there are too nany powerful athletes making it instead of proper naturally gifted footballers but the actual game is quicker with better passing and less scrappy than 30 years ago.

​@@eamano8474Increased athleticism has essentially compensated for the decline in natural football talent

@AJ-nd4nk would still be better if more naturally gifted guys made it. I think some of the academies are letting less gifted more athletic players make it at the expense of the more gifted players. Still the more gifted ones that get through are still better than the more athletic powerful guys. Some managers have teams filled with these guys and some prefer nany talented footballers over going down that route

Don't be daft

They'll keep the "FIFA" generation...specifically the people that grew up on PS3 and 4, they love this BS, they know nothing else.

The best sides at the Euros have played "tippy-tappy" football. Spain, Germany, Georgia, Turkey etc. The worst sides are the teams who don't want the ball and just want to defend. England and France. They're the ones that are killing games. Playing out from the back is high risk and creates scoring opportunities. If you lose the ball, the opposition have a good chance. If you can play through the press, you have space to attack into. Teams rarely keep the ball for the sake of it, they're not even capable of doing that. If they're doing it it's almost always because the opposition aren't pressing them and are just sitting behind the ball. That's the only time you get easy possession. Unless you're a Pep team, who are so good that they can be boring. Blame the defensive teams, not the teams trying to play football.

I am surprised when I hear french name in France national team.

Racist Nonsense but you can keep lyjng to yourself.

@@triplebeans4159 Explain your sentiment with reason. So that we can learn about you.

I agree, but ironically this all started with jack Charlton's Ireland team fielding every decent English player with a pretend Irish Grandparent. Why do small countries like Croatia succeed above their station? Because they have a true national identity that ALL of their populous feels a connection with. A team with Croatian generational roots and fans with their shared sense of history. I'm not what sure France or Belgium represent anymore?

I guess you didn't see Brazil commit any fouls eh? Anyway, that's how decisive games are played between Brazil, Argentina and Uruguay. A knife between the teeth and a kick to the shin or ankle.

@fabiano9021 Uruguay would score a drop goal and then defend the 3-0 lead until end of the rugby match 😂

@@ThomasYoung-rq7pq Doesn’t change the fact that your beloved Brazil couldn’t beat Uruguay and Didn’t win .💀☠️

I wish.

Totally agree with you. I've gone I don't watch some games in the Premier league because they are boring. This obsession with playing out from the back and as you say, sideways passing does my head in. As for all the useless stats. Who cares how many dribbles a player has made!. Pep has alot to do with the way teams play today. But you can't criticise him because the media love him. Football has gone too tactical and players aren't as skilled as they once where. Now their more like athletes.

The actual football on the pitch is much better now than it was in the past. Go back and watch games from the 90s and 2000s and every team plays like Wimbledon. The ball is in the air half the time, spamming crosses and set pieces, the GK booting down the pitch every time. It's wretched. There's much more creativity and risk in football now, you're just not paying attention. Not to mention we now have the best players from all over the world, and the best coaches. But major international games, and big finals, tend to be rubbish, mainly due to the pressure and what's at stake. Teams just play defensively and are afraid to take risks. There definitely needs to be more goals in football and more changes to make more attacking play and goals more likely. Because games are largely boring. In the early 20th century there used to be far more goals. Playing 4--2-4 was the norm.

The Digital Age, mate. It's sucked the quality out of everything, from footballers to appliances to ordinary people.