The Kaiser Chiefs' bassist travelled almost 7,000 miles to gift Marcelo Bielsa his famous Leeds United bucket.
The band are huge Leeds supporters, with their name taken from club legend Lucas Radebe’s former side in South Africa. Like most Leeds followers, they still idolise Argentine boss Bielsa for guiding the club back to the Premier League by winning the Championship in 2020.
After a respectable first season back in the top flight, Bielsa was sacked in February 2022 after a series of heavy defeats. However, he will forever be a Leeds legend for putting the club back on the footballing map.
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The managerial great is renowned for his quirky tendencies and at Leeds, they included sitting on a special club bucket during the matches. The bucket became a symbol of the Bielsa era.
Now, he has been reunited with the item after the Kaiser Chiefs’ Simon Rix and a group of other fans travelled all the way to Uruguay, where Bielsa is coaching the national team, to reunite him with it.
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The English X account for Newell’s Old Boys – Bielsa’s first club in management – shared a picture of Rix carrying the boxed-up bucket en route to South America.
Newell’s posted: “Leeds fans, including Simon Rix of the Kaiser Chiefs, travelled from the UK to Uruguay to bring a bucket to Marcelo Bielsa. Bielsa had not been using his trademark bucket in recent games with Uruguay but now has one from his time with #LUFC, which was given to him earlier today.”
Those fans will hope the bucket gets an outing during Uruguay’s next World Cup qualifiers against Argentina in Bolivia in November. Uruguay have made a fine start to their campaign and sit second in the table following this week’s Darwin Nunez-inspired 2-0 win over Brazil.
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