7 incredible stories of Carlos Pilate in his latest adventure as a technical director

— Gelleri, Gelleri, tell me which team do you want to play, on which team?

- How, Carlos?

- What have you heard, which team do you want to play for?

- Carlos, Argentina

- Why is there a flag of Brazil? I can't do that. Are you from Argentina or Brazil?

- But Carlos, flip-flops are that way, it's a brand.

- But I have to choose, tapala, tapala

Geleri (none other than Marcos Angeleri) met with a proposal when he was walking around Balneario 12 at the peak of the Estudiantes pre-season in the summer of 2004. Carlos Bilardo knocked on sunscreen (until the players called him “The Joker”), for lack of attachment to the homeland of footwear, criticized the defender, who was one of the prodigies of management. I retired to the locker room and returned to the beach with a tape covering the Brazilian flag decorating the flip-flops of a famous brand I came.

It was back in 2003 when the average of Estudiantes de La Plata (Estudiantes de La Plata), who was harassed by the Pincharata community, began to worry, for which Carlos Salvador Villardo could not refuse his fate. “Flaco Poletti came and called him Veron, the British witch, and Martin Palermo from Spain.” He said with a diver. At the age of 65, he took over for the fourth time as an advisor to the Platense club, winning the title at the Metropolitano in 1982 to enter the national team. It was the final step of the Doctor on the substitute bench, and besides that he continued to connect with football as manager of the national team and journalists, in addition to abbreviating other activities such as politics and acting.

Bilardo was faithful to his style and poured out events and stupidity with his own label, reinforced by years and obsession, but he achieved the goal of leaving Estudiantes in Primera and leaving the base with several young people who would become champions in Primera in 2006. Players like Diego Simeone's coach Romarcelo Carusca, Marcos Gelabert, Jose Sosa, Mariano Pavone passed through their hands.And they Enjoyed their special method and suffered. On the day of Doctor's 84th birthday, there is an unmissable story about his final step as a technical director.

In this country surrounded by children, I came to a secluded place “not to waste time on travel” (Photo: NA)

Pre-season based on austerity

The Estudiantes footballers carefully descended from the microphone and saw the panorama with a little distrust. The squad arrived in Mar del Plata for the preseason, and in front of him were Hotel Varna, 2 stars, 2 floors and 21 rooms. Humble but cozy.There they were going to stay for a basic job to return to the competition.

Bilardo told the press covered in Punta Mogotes: “We're fine, a little tight, but good.” I am more used to the comfort surrounding elite clubs during the trip. A few TVs came down from the microphone, and the assumptions were confirmed. There was no TV in the room. In the lobby, there were 29 inches in front of a spacious armchair to share a moment of leisure. On the side, a classic Siam refrigerator added a vintage touch.

The first impression helped the footballers get used to them. Many times they rushed to the building where they were training in the port area of La Feliz. Mike frolic outside the hotel.And if the unsuspecting person entered the accommodation at night at the lobby desk instead of the staff, he would naturally find Bilardo on the phone and broadcast it for a radio program, just as he did in the studio. It should be a big nose at full time.

Train better at night

The anecdote belongs to Gonzalo Clusener and was told in La Boise del Interior. “When we returned from Mar del Plata, Pilate desperately demanded a striker and they did not bring him. One Thursday, after a double shift where we were 'shot, 'he said to me: 'Russians, today at 22.30 already have dinner, they should stay here with Eloy (Colombano) and (Dante) Senger.' So around 19, after training, we went to the boarding house, Around 22.20, we were taken back to the court.We wondered what this would come up with (Bilardo). We focused on Arrived at the door and after a while they fell into two cars: Bilardo, Brown, Lemme and a physical trainer.” The story was blocked.

“'Come on, come in. We're going to watch a match between River and Racing on TV.” That day, Fernández Ragata (Gaston) went to race on the river and scored a goal. In the first half of the year, he marked the movement of the strikers and told them to change to the locker room when the halftime came. We didn't understand anything. We had clothes with ankle boots down when we arrived. ' Ankle boots? ' , We asked the prop man. ' Yes, the doctor asked me to leave. “We changed and went back to the office.” Sit down. We will watch the second half of the year and then do the training. We looked at the boys and each other and thought he was crazy. At midnight, there was no lighted court for training. He took us to the corner of the country, we barely saw, we got warm, and he blocked Lemme, Brown, and the teacher in three lines to show us how we should move and overcome defenses with that inclination. It was 12 o'clock in the evening! We were there for about an hour and a little while, and he taught the defender how to lift the ball to his knees, not to the sides, to overcome it and to commit a penalty.Pilate is like that. Character,” he concluded.

Figures like Veron and Palermo asked for his return. And he couldn't say no (Photo: NA)

DJ Pilate's musical marathon

Authentic Decadents, Versut Vergarabat, La Mosca, and the band XXI .Bilardo dealt with tactical exercises and DJ trays.In Estudiantes, Carlos Salvador received a patent for the “Training Musical Marathon”. Practices that lasted between 7 and 11 hours, some more and others less. There are more specific or general professions, and in the background there is cheerful and motivating music, with playlists chosen by professional dancers who know how to show their strengths at carnivals.

“Music is about breaking the monotony of the country and motivating the players a little,” he said about his unique method. The longest marathon of his marathon began at 9 o'clock in the morning and ended after 20 o'clock.Each football player went through 10 trials during a tiring day. “You can't get tired because you do what you like.” As the nose dropped the troop, he insisted.

Self Fired and City Bell Jail

In February 2004, students lost 4-1 to Independiente at Stadium 1 and 57. For coach Bilardo, who was unable to celebrate a recognized goal in the final against Germany in the middle of the title celebration held in Mexico 86, the defeat represented a deep stabbing wound that was impossible to heal. Too many emotional charges, such a level of self-criticism forced him to make a famous statement.

“I am responsible for the defeat. Moreover, if I was the president of the club, he called me and said, 'Leave, '. Those four goals are that you can't. If everything goes wrong, the coach is to blame. If I were president, I would be kicked out.” He burst into a laugh that was contained before the syndicate.

“After we get a favorable corner, we can't score a goal. It's something that never happened to me. One goal, well, go through, but four things...”, he continued to whip himself up. Bilardo did not say goodbye to himself, but applied punishment. He was trapped in the country of City Bell “not to waste time on travel,” where he was seen by serene people walking through the court in the dark after presenting a radio program on the phone to find a solution to the wave of insomnia at dawn.

Frustrated singer Angeleri

Marcos Angeleri was the protagonist of another doctor's stupidity. His field assistant, Miguel Ángel Lemme, said, “There was Carlos's room at the meeting, and my room came, and Angeleri's room came. I taught him props to play the guitar. I let Angeleri sing a song. When Carlos was angry, he ran away and we won. I told Carlos that we had to do it again because we won. Then I made Angeleri sing, and he yelled at her, and the little boy would run out. .”, explained in detail the choreography that is repeated like a repetition. “These are beautiful things that we live next to the owner,” even Cabal completed the nostalgic Cabezón.

MAGIC WAY

Bilardo, an icon of Estudiantes, gladly provided all the knowledge and esoteric artillery so that the club remained in the elite. “We went to the other side of the Camino Negro and ran out of the country. When we crossed the road, there was a dead road and a tip popped out. And when we came back from running, he was always standing there. And one Sunday he said to me: 'Come, let's go find the boy. 'I talked with a prop man, and they brought an employee with a magnetic flux. He cut a piece of the track until we were saved from the descent and placed it under the bed where he slept. And he took her home, because he said that the track was lucky. A piece of track of 1 meter, uh, bent at the end”, explained the incredible movement El Cabezón Lemme. Of course, he was not surprised, because he knew all his repertoire.

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