Marcelo Bielsa is renowned for the importance he places on video analysis as a manager. At Leeds United, it was no different, with members of the squad often heard discussing how the level of detail he goes into is something they had never experienced before.
One of the people in the background at Leeds during Bielsa’s time at Elland Road was Anthony Fulconis. Fulconis was tasked with providing Bielsa with video analysis of the opposition, something which the Argentine would spend hours then relaying to the players.
So with that in mind, you can only imagine the amount of time the likes of Fulconis will have spent ensuring his work was up to Bielsa’s standard. In an interview with L’Est Éclair, Fulconis does exactly that – detailing exactly what it was like working under the former Leeds boss, and the extent of some of his 14 and a half hour plus days.
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He said: “It was really intense, in a historical club with a great fan base. The infrastructures are extraordinary, the training centre is humongous, with ten pitches. I learned a lot, in a league with a particular style: tougher, with plenty of loose balls, contacts, aerial challenges. I was in charge of studying the opposition. No, I wasn’t sent to spy on trainings (laughs).
“Marcelo never left anything to chance. If it was the 46th game, you needed to compile the previous 45. At first, the video was 25 minutes long, but at the end of the campaign it was more than two hours. I’d start in the morning at 8 and sometimes finished at 10.30pm with work to do back home.
“Marcelo needs that material to work. With him, all players watch film every day: at the start of the week to rectify what didn’t work in the last game, then you start looking at the opposition.”
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