Josep Pep Guardiola
Josep Pep Guardiola is an acknowledged Spanish football manager. Guardiola was born in Santpedor on 18 Jan 1971. He owns a coaching UEFA pro license. He is a defensive midfielder. Guardiola was selected as the coach of Barcelona on 21 June 2007, and the team won under his coaching. On 16 Jan 2013, Guardiola was appointed as a manager of Bayern Munich from the 2013–2016 season. Currently, he is the manager of the Premier League club of Manchester City.
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Managerial Career:
In 2008 Joan Laporta declared that Guardiola would be the manager of senior Barcellona at the end of the 2007–2008 season. Well, he became the manager of the Barcelona team in 2007. Indeed the managerial career of Guardiola is legit all over. The Barcelona team became more focused and disciplined under the management of Guardiola. Although Guardiola was appointed in Frank Rijkaard, the Barcelona team had a better pressing style in Guardiola’s assistance.
Guardiola has played high line defense with Rafael Márquez. He gave the chances to him with long balls. He frequently played a great defensive line with pushing high up their particular sides while relying on Xavi and Andrés Iniesta passing to maintain hold and applying a pressing style without the ball.
In the 2011–2012 season, Guardiola made the team increase the use of the 3–4–3 system. Johan Cryuff had used this system before as a primary tactical strategy when Guardiola performed for Barcelona. At that time, Guardiola applied a 3–4–3 system in a 5–0 win against Sergio Busquets, Eric Abdal, and Javier Mascherano at the back while Seydou Keita was defensive Midfielder. Guardiola didn’t perform even one primary defender in the 5–0 victory. Hee repeated this 3–0 victory over Bayer Leverkusen in Bayern’s Munich while fielding back at others. Most of the spectators consider that the main reason for the 3–4–3 was because he was slight on defenders in the following Champions League at Camp Nou while facing Milan. Guardiola applied this strategy while the majority of his players were available for selection.
Guardiola is generally seen as a champion of the tiki-taka style by football critics but expresses mastery and the swift passing of the ball as simply a means of encumbering players and creating space for scoring possibilities.
Guardiola managed Bayern Munich in the 2013–2016 season. Guardiola applied a 3–4–3 system throughout the front leg of the Champions League semifinal opposing old club Barca. Players are acknowledged for their pressing of the ball style in Guardiola’s management.
Guardiola’s first trophy with Bayern Munich was in the 2013 UEFA Super Cup. at the same time, beating long-time adversary Jose Mourinho, who had lately returned to coach at Chelsea. In Dec 2013, he won his third club world cup, defeating Raja Casablanca in Morocco. In 2014 Guardiola supervised Bayern Munich to their 23rd Bundesliga trophy by beating Hertha BSC 3–1 at the Olympiastadion in Berlin. He has broken the records Heynckes Bayern had established in the former season with his top-notch managerial skills.
Although there were seven matches left this season, it was the quickest championship acquired in Bundesliga history. Guardiola broke Karl-Heinz Feldkamp’s record with his leading managerial skills for the highest winning ridge, starting his occupancy at a Bundesliga club. The streak further dropped Bayern’s 53 matches victorious streak.
However, along with victories, Guardiola faced a crisis in his career for his tactics. But he maintained and defended his tactics. Guardiola performed seven victorious matches anyhow he lost his first match at Santiago Bernabeu. he took responsibility for the failure. Philipp Lahm, who played for Guardiola at Bayern Munich, said: “it was a collective failure and not the fault of coach Guardiola,”
In Dec 2016, he left the club as his contract ended at the edge of the year. However, the Bayern Munich overall season was fantastic under Guardiola management.
Guardiola is currently managing at Manchester signed a three-year contract. However, he prolonged the contract for a further two years. Guardiola brought many changes to the team in the starting. He disputedly replaced long-serving City commencing goalkeeper Joe Hart with Claudio Bravo from his previous club Barcelona; subsequently, Hart failed to impress Guardiola in pre-season, he was lent to Torino. Moreover, at the end of Sep 2016, Guardiola had won the first ten matches at this time. Well, Guardiola faced his first defeat as manager at Manchester with 2–0 against Tottenham. Although this was the first season in Guardiola’s career, he ended up without a trophy.
Well, in the prior seasons, the team stood up under Guardiola management. They worked hard until Manchester City won all nine matches in January 2021 and was labeled the team with the most wins. After this, Guardiola led Manchester City to win its first champion league final.
No doubt Josep Pep Guardiola is considered the best manager of this time by pundits. Not just that, he earned so much respect and name as a player and manager. Guardiola polished his skills to Beyond and above to get this success and name.