The Leeds United , led by special Marcelo Bielsa , has accomplished today their return to the Premier League after 16 years without touching the top flight of English football.

Those from Elland Road did not need to play, since the defeat of West Brom at the Huddersfield home (2-1) gives them an advantage of at least five points, when their rival has only one league game left to play. .

Those of Bielsa, who passed, among others, Athletic Bilbao , still have two pending matches in which they will want to finish the season achieving the Championship title.

In the English box there is a wide Spanish representation, with Víctor Orta as sports director, Kiko Casilla in goal, Pablo Hernández in midfield and journalist Gaby Ruiz in the scouting team.

"I would like to earn a promotion on the field because these people have suffered a lot, " Orta admitted to EL MUNDO during confinement, when his team led the table and debated whether or not to resume the competition.

The coronavirus hit Leeds head-on , which was forced to fire dozens of people during the confinement and which estimates the losses due to Covid-19 at eight million. A figure that would have been much higher if he had not promoted to the Premier League.

"We have suffered a reality hit," said Orta in the quarantine. " We have had to kick out 90 people, humble people , who you know, and it is a very hard blow. It is the war of our time."

Bielsa, the boss

At 64, the 'Fool' has achieved the primary goal of a historic club in just his second season in England. Last year he stayed on the doorstep and fell in the decisive Playoff, but this year he has maintained consistency in a competitive Championship and has closed the promotion with force, without having to go to the playoffs.

The Argentine took Athletic to two finals in 2012 , one for the Copa del Rey and the other for the Europa League, in his first season in Bilbao. He lost both, to Barcelona and Atlético, but left a great taste in his mouth that he could not repeat the following year. He left the old San Mamés with the honor of being the last coach of the team in the old stadium, and signed months later for Olympique de Marseille , where he lost to the League against PSG by a bad second round.

Then came his bizarre arrival in Lazio , announced by the Italian club and rejected, resignation through, by the coach two days later. His reason: they had not signed any of the players he had asked for. He went to Lille , where it did not work, and ended up in Leeds, where he has made history.

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