Leeds United director Victor Orta offered chance of reunion with Marcelo Bielsa at Mexico national team - MOT Leeds News 26/1/23
By Pranav Shahaney
Leeds United director of football Victor Orta has reportedly
been handed a proposal to take over as the director of the Mexico national
team.
According to ESPN journalist David Faitelson, former Whites
boss Marcelo Bielsa is also under consideration to be the head coach.
This would mean that Orta would be part of the setup which
is above the coaching staff – a similar sort of hierarchy the two had at Elland
Road.
Via Twitter, Faitelson wrote, “The Spanish Víctor Orta,
current soccer director of Leeds United, was a proposal from Grupo Pachuca as
director of national teams. He would be above Marcelo Bielsa.”
It remains to be seen what Orta ends up doing as it would be
a good opportunity for him to work for their national team ahead of their home
World Cup.
He would also have more power than he does at Elland Road
and Bielsa is likely to be open to working with him, given their fruitful
relationship at Leeds.
However, if he does want to continue at the club level and
perhaps be part of teams challenging for trophies, then it makes sense to stay
at Elland Road.
He was linked with Chelsea job too not a while back and such
opportunities will present themselves if he continues to do good work.
This window, he has brought in two important signings,
including one that broke the club record and there are chances of a third major
signing as well.
It remains to be seen what Orta decides to do but we do not
think that he would want to jump ship in the middle of the season.
