Bielsa calls up amateur player to Uruguay squad

Wonder Pigeon said:
Jack Byrne was indeed a full-time professional when he was capped for Ireland, as were other LOI-capped players like Crowe, Jason Byrne and Joe Gamble.

But an amateur HAS played for Ireland in more recent(ish) times. That would be Joe Lapira, the college soccer player capped by Steve Staunton in 2006 during a US tour. As I recall, his uncle worked for the FAI.
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Joey plays, or Stevie swims with the fishes.
 
SoCross said:
A lot of Caftards love Bielsa.
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Yeah, being a proper coach that has high tactical nous and not basing his career on his former glory days as a player and just vibing with the homies at training is something I can get behind.
 
Oh so when Bielsa does it he is a possible genius, but when ETH does it week in week out, he needs to be fired.
 
Karlos PFC said:
Yeah, being a proper coach that has high tactical nous and not basing his career on his former glory days as a player and just vibing with the homies at training is something I can get behind.
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Bielsa is part of that manager's profile that is very dogmatic and that can cost his team results. But at least he is always trying to innovate something.

Jorge Jesus is also in this type of profile: extremely dogmatic manager that leaves fans wherever he goes, and despite being old enough to retire, he totally restructured his way of training to embrace new technologies. But as Bielsa, when things go wrong, it can go really wrong, specially if the players don't buy their ideas.
 
I remembered to check up on this the other day. Still cool, but It wasn't quite as billed originally.

Bielsa wasn't even in charge of the match, Diego Perez, one of the U-20 assistant coaches was. It was not on an official FIFA date. No players based abroad took part and it was officially a "Uruguay A" team. All the other players were from the Uruguyan top-flight so that's the really cool thing about this player being picked. The first other player I looked at was the 'keeper. He has one professional start for Penarol in his entire career to date but has played youth internationals.

Domínguez, 24, is part of the so-called “Local Environment Team,” recently created to give exposure to footballers competing in tournaments in Uruguay and provide clubs with “a showcase to display them internationally,” according to the AUF.
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Uruguay A on wiki - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uruguay_A'_national_football_team

They drew 0-0 away with Costa Rica with this guy getting 10 minutes at the end. Looks like they got dominated 34% posession, outshot 16-4, on target 4-1. They did miss a penalty though so could have won.

The real national team smashed Mexico away 4-0 a few days later in the buld up to Copa America. Nunez got a hat-trick.

Anyway, here's the amateur lad's highlights.
 
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