Beyond being a great defender, especially during his time in Spain, and the great coach who discovered and shaped footballers like Gabriel Batistuta either Carlos Tevez, Jorge Griffa, died yesterday, is considered one of the coach’s influences Uruguay, Marcelo Bielsa.
Both idolized the Argentine club to Newell Old Men; same ‘leper’ legend.
As he admitted in an interview Griffawho achieved glory in Atlético de Madridwhere he played 10 seasons in the 60s, where he was an undisputed defender and won five titles (one League, three Cups and one European Cup Winners’ Cup)‘The Fool’ is “his best student.”
When Bielsa He is almost 25 years old, and after graduating from Physical education through University of Buenos Aires, went to the property Rosary beads to ask him to help him become a coach.
‘He crazy‘He got to the first team to Newell (Ñuls for Argentines) after spending eight years in kindergartens under the care of Griffaand there began some practices that would distinguish him as a coach: marathon training sessions, demanding set-piece exercises or tactics that had never been seen before.
In addition, the one who would later become the coach of the Mexican Atlas and América, of the Argentine Velez Sarsfieldof the Spanish Spanish from Barcelona and Athletic Club of Bilbaofrom the French Olympique de Marseille and Lille and from English leedsin addition to the selector Argentina, chilli and now Uruguayaccompanied the ‘Master’ on his travels within the country.
In these movements, Griffa know how to discover talents like Eduardo Berizzo, Mauricio Pochettino either Batistuta; they all end up starting their careers to Newell.
Under the orders of ‘the crazy‘, Newell‘s was crowned Argentine First Division champion in his first campaign in charge of the first team. He also won the Closing in 1992 before jumping to Mexican soccer.
Such is Griffa’s importance to Bielsa that, in 2017 – between his time at the two French clubs he managed – he ordered the construction of a staff hotel at the Bella Vista estate, in the city of Rosario ( province of Santa Fe. ), and named it ‘Hotel Griffa’ in his honor.
“Is called Jorge Griffa of the teacher of Marcelo Bielsa. This is what he decided, donating it unconditionally. He not only gave the money but he assigned his family to the project and the execution of the work,” he explained in 2017. Jose Condeboard member and responsible for Planning, local press.
The building, which is 2,230 square meters and has an investment of about 3 million dollars, has offices, a video room, a warehouse, a kitchen and a multipurpose room, in addition to the last two floors with 18 rooms for 30 soccer players.
That area has continued to be used by the team to focus before their home games, and where the preseason has been held since that year.
If it was important at the moment that ‘El Loco’ decided to create it and name it that way, there is no doubt that it will be more since the loss of the ‘Maestro’ at the age of 88, which, in addition to his indelible mark , will remain a legacy for generations of footballers from the ‘Ñuls’.
Source: La Verdad
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