It premiered ‘Bilardo: The soccer doctor’, a series about the secrets of the life of the legendary Argentine coach. His life, his legacy, his hobbies… told by great protagonists.
Charles Bilardo He was one of the most modern and controversial coaches in Argentine football. He had a unique personality, fascinating, but also irreverent and provocative. This week a new four-part docuseries with unpublished material as a posthumous tribute to one of the best Argentine soccer coaches produced by HBO MAX. A journey through his life that reveals the matrix of his obsessive thought. Also his sufferings, revealing the most human Bilardo, not only the public and irreverent character and leader. And as a tribute, it was put on screen on February 24, the date on which the 39th anniversary of the day that ‘El Narigón’ assumed the position of coach of the Argentine national team.
World Champion in Mexico 86 and runner-up in Italy 90 with Diego Maradona as a great standard, it was the maximum exponent of a soccer school that proclaimed success as the only valid goal and that influenced players and coaches from all over the world who embraced ‘Bilardismo’ as opposed to ‘Menottismo’, a dichotomy that crosses the recent history of Argentine football to the present. His methods, his tactics, his cabals to achieve victory or even the exaltation of mischief and cheating as valid tools to ensure the victory of his teams, were also his hallmark. But the series also reveals his hobbies and personal sacrifices, his sufferings and how he relegated his family in order to always win.
The tour is exciting. The series begins when Bilardo is named technical director of Argentina and begins a journey through his life through the stories and characters that surrounded him at key moments in his career and highlighting his particular personality. His fundamental role in the world champion Estudiantes de La Plata, his experiences as a coach in Colombia and abroad, his career as a gynecologist, his family. The second episode is focused on the previous one and the 1986 World Cup. A third shows the period between the World Cups and the epic of the Argentine team that was runner-up in Italy 90. The fourth is a chapter that reflects the most current Bilardo: communicator, actor , candidate for president of Boca Juniors and his return to Estudiantes La Plata, the club of his life.
“Football is in the DNA of Argentine culture. And Carlos Salvador Bilardo left an indelible mark as a soccer benchmark, popular idol and legend & rdquor ;, described him Thomas Yankelevich, Chief Content Officer of WarnerMedia Latin America. Each chapter is a tribute full of anecdotes, testimonials from great players and coaches, exclusive interviews from Oscar Ruggeri and Diego Simeon to his innermost circle. Even the detractors of him like Cesar Luis Menotti they think about him.
“A coach who forgot to live to see his champion team deserved a docuseries & rdquor ;, as announced by HBO Max with the hashtag #BilardoLaSerie.
A posthumous tribute to one of the great characters of Argentine football, who left his legacy in the history of the beautiful game.