Manchester City manager Pep Guardiola has hailed his mentor Marcelo Bielsa.
Guardiola is arguably one of the best managers in the world and the Spaniard has often credited his success to former Argentina, Chile, Athletic Bilbao, Marseille and Lazio boss Bielsa.
Now Guardiola has gone on to once again speak in glowing terms of Bielsa and has claimed that he learned a lot about football management from the Argentine in just 11 hours of conversation back in 2006.
The ex-Barcelona and Bayern Munich boss told SFR Sport: "[I learnt] a lot. In 11 hours you can learn a lot.
"But at the end you cannot learn what exactly Marcelo is. You need to live with him, you need to experience more but I am a huge fan of him. He dignifies our profession. He is a person who respects his colleagues, who respect the way they want to play.
"He had an admiration about all the players he had. His awareness, he knows absolutely everything about football. He deserves to be in football every season, every moment. He is honest. He is clear.
"He is a strong guy with the strong people and a good guy with the weak people. So I admire him a lot. He is one of my idols."