Marcelo Bielsa: How media ‘perverts’ truth based on wins & defeats

Marcelo Bielsa says the media “specialise in perverting human beings according to victories or defeats” and that “the same argument that is used to amplify a behaviour in victory is used to condemn behaviour in defeat”.

Speaking at an event hosted by the Brazilian Football Federation in May 2017, the Argentine said: “If the coach manages to get Neymar to retrieve the ball chasing the rival winger, we counter-attack and make a goal and win eight matches in a row, everyone will say, ‘how wonderful, the coach domesticated Neymar, he achieved that Neymar is collective instead of individual.’