translated from Spanish: Friendly between Betis and Leeds will face Pellegrini and Bielsa in a match with special flavor for the Chileans

Agency One

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It is no secret that a good part of the football community in our country remembers with great affection the former coach of the national team, the Argentine Marcelo Bielsa, at the same time that another huge – and not exclusive – group admires the most successful national coach abroad, Manuel Pellegrini.

Real Betis announced on Friday the holding on July 31 of a friendly between the squad led by Manuel Pellegrini and Leeds United, cast of the Premier League that between the former coach of Chile Marcelo Bielsa.The duel will be played at the University of Loughborough, in the United Kingdom, and is framed in the preseason that both squads perform for the 2021-2022 campaign.This will be the fourth preparatory confrontation for the Spanish cast, where the goalkeeper Claudio Bravo plays. Before that he will play against Winterthur (July 17), Wolverhampton (July 24) and Derby County, in his first days in the United KingdomThe leadership of the verdiblanco team hopes to close another friendly against a team from the First Division of the Spanish league in early August in Marbella before hosting José Mourinho’s AS Roma at the ‘Benito Villamarín’ on August 7. Meanwhile, Leeds are preparing for their second consecutive season in the Premier League, where they finished ninth in the 2020-2021 campaign.

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