Pep Guardiola has already been one of the most influential coaching figures in football history, and it doesn’t depend on his third Champions League victory if we can call him the greatest.
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Pep Guardiola’s team has now already reached the pinnacle: they will finish the 2022/23 season with a treble.
Until now, it was said that he could only win it with Messi. Now that he’s won the Champions League with City against Inter, that is Gaining weight in an Arab bank account The topic will be accurate.
In the case of the latter, it is absurd that the statement was made in PSG precisely because of the billions of reais in circulation: you can’t do that with money! I mean to succeed. (You can buy it right now, but you can only pay for it!) And about Messi’s excuse: Well, after Guardiola, the Argentine genius won the Champions League again. Under 12 ads.
When simplifying a complex question, it makes sense to take the answers lightly. And then: Is Pep Guardiola really the greatest manager of all time?
Let’s turn the counter! Since entering since 2008-2009:
- The 11-time champion, Massimiliano Allegri is next in line in terms of grand slams with six.
- Zinedine Zidane, now a three-time Serie A winner, has added the most goals to the fore during this time, and Carlo Ancelotti added two;
- tripled for the second time – he has no equal in this;
- Incidentally, he has won 35 titles in the last 15 seasons, followed by Jose Mourinho with 14.
Of course, who will not win with Barcelona, Bayern and City? Surely this is too obvious? Let’s just take the Catalans of that period. The dressing room was about to disappear. Xavi was about to leave, and Ronaldinho (and team mates with Eto’o and Deco), who had been slouching on the bench during training, had already arranged a bed for Messi on the bench. Guardiola put things in order, and Barcelona did everything for him for one year.
And the city!? They have won the Premier League five times in seven matches (out of the last six). Clear? Ten out of the twenty highest-grossing clubs in the world (fifteen out of thirty) compete here. Point records, however, still follow a trajectory reminiscent of the dominance of city rivals United.
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Football conscience.
The feeling of absence from Munich could have remained: in the Premier League, the semi-finals were always the final stop. However, the picture is cloudy if we look at the last three years of an also perfect season for Bayern, in which they did not reach the top four.
But man is more than he possesses. We cannot judge a person’s work by titles alone. Finals come and go in small things, and the question of immeasurable legacy is a timeless one. Sir Alex Ferguson or Arsene Wenger left an empty void because their clubs, who had risen to such a high level, were not preparing for their departure. But there were those who changed not just the club – regardless of whether they could be associated with a club or not – but the whole sport. Although he was surpassed in terms of effectiveness by Ancelotti, who grew up from his hands, and even Zidane, who was mentored by Ancelotti, the influence of Arrigo Sacchi on football, or we can mention the other great theoretician of his era, Valery Lobanovskyi, is immeasurable. By the numbers. (even if the role of numbers is emphasized).
That is why we cannot forget the creators of determinism in football theory, such as Marcelo Bielsa. Someone who, without memorable victories, shaped Guardiola’s thoughts just like Johan Cruyff. Holland’s patron saint spent only a few, at the same time, very productive years coaching, but he fundamentally overhauled the game through his practical teachings. The successor, who has maintained the level for a longer period of time, is also worthy in its inevitability.
There are indeed youngsters that have come out of Guardiola’s trash (Mikel Arteta, Vincent Komapny, Xavi), but the truth is that since his emergence, he has twisted world football from all four corners. Where there is no bubble, only controversy. The counter effect, the counter-response feedback, drives its continuous motion.
In the two thousand years, we were in the land of giants, physics ruled. Then he put Sergio Busquets, whose physique evokes an anti-talented humanist (unparalleled in terms of intelligence, discovered on the B team) and the kindergarten-sized juniors in the center of the field, and then began to play football along the positional game. but how! Barcelona attacked and defended at the same time, never giving the ball away, or if they did they took it back immediately.
All this is evident today, but the trend was different then. Since then, he has been coming up with ideas that are more unexpected than unexpected, more brutal than brutal, in front of his opponents and out of their brains. It has dusted off many of the tactical elements missing from the past, reinterpreted and tailored them to today’s needs.
He adheres to principles, wants to take the initiative, but he is not dogmatic, he also thinks in terms of strategy, which is why he boldly takes bold actions. Messi retired as a striker?! Let the rondos flow uncontrollably!
If the person he favors in the land of pressure lying on him for immediate counterattack? Then to the middle with the defenders wing to stop the transitions!
The common point is controlling the central spaces – and the ball. But his possession is not aimless. He was willing to give it up several times this spring.
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Despite this, Guardiola’s masterpiece was built in Manchester. In Barcelona, he fashioned the classics brought up in the same spirit into unity. In Munich, although he had to come to terms with the fact that no coach could outgrow him at the helm of Bayern Munich, he made the Bavarian team’s style more dominant, finding a solution to maintaining his style even in the fastest circumstances.
City, on the other hand, were ready for him (he started a brain drain on the Barcelona board with Ferran Soriano and Txiki Begiristain before his arrival), orchestrated and polished it again and again. No eccentric stars, Pep is the face.
In England, it was also realized that some of its shortcomings had to be filled by force. He also reversed his specialization, pushing a defender into midfield and placing a midfielder on defense. His updated WM system, unlike Herbert Chapman’s, which revolutionized formation, isn’t even about the counters. As with all of his previous failed attempts, it’s about finding a balance between superiority and security. He found it – and is sure to start looking for it next year.
Many awards are the result, but how! Literally: Guardiola wins like no other.
Many names have been mentioned, from Chapman to Cruyff and Saquin to Ferguson, Mourinho and Zidane, but there is no objective criterion that can undoubtedly rank the greatest. What can be said: There is no aspect in which Guardiola is not compared to any of the coaching princes of all time.
