I thought I misheard something (probably my Tinnitus LOL) on a TFTM podcast ages ago about Biesla and Pochettino’s legs at night. But no…
Mauricio Pochettino has revealed the unusual lengths his mentor Marcelo Bielsa went to before giving the Tottenham manager his break in professional football.
Bielsa, who would go on to manage one of his many protégées at Newell’s Old Boys, Espanyol and with the Argentina national team, came to the Pochettino household for a meeting with the youngster’s parents in 1985 when working in youth development.
Arriving at 2am Bielsa found a sleeping Pochettino, 13, asked the parents if he could see the child’s legs, declared he looked like a footballer and signed him on the spot.