All posts tagged "Pep Guardiola"

  • No Pot Luck for Pep! Analyzing the 2016 UCL Draw

    Some things in this world are inevitable, like Arsenal finishing above Tottenham in the league or Chelsea’s Diego Costa crossing the line (and I am not just talking about the white line!) more times than Bear from...

    • Posted August 25, 2016
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  • Guardiola outnumbered in Premier League managerial battle

    When Pep Guardiola managed in La Liga, Jose Mourinho was his arch nemesis. When Guardiola managed in the Bundesliga, Jürgen Klopp was his biggest rival. If Guardiola had ever coached in Serie A, Antonio Conte would have...

    • Posted July 17, 2016
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  • Is Pep Guardiola destined to move to Manchester?

    Pep Guardiola joined Bayern Munich in 2013 with the object of improving on perfection. Yet after two-and-a-half of almost eerily mechanical diligence, two league titles, two Champions League semifinal appearances and a win rate even higher than...

    • Posted December 16, 2015
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  • Tiki-taka is dead. Long live tiki-taka; Barcelona’s evolution

    Pep Guardiola was famously zealous about many things; about tiki-taka, club culture, training, and about Coldplay’s song, “Viva La Vida.” He’d play it to his Barcelona team before every game and often over the loudspeakers at the...

    • Posted June 4, 2015
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  • MOTD: Bayern Munich 1-0 Manchester City

    Pep Guardiola is the master of a move that hardly any manager dares to do – turn a defender into a midfielder. With Javier Mascherano at Barcelona he did the opposite, and after his year on a...

    • Posted September 17, 2014
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  • Best paid football managers – 2014

    Jose Mourinho and Pep Guardiola are not only two of the most wanted managers in the world but are also the two highest earning managers of 2014. Although Marcelo Lippi, Fabio Capello, Arsene Wenger and Carlo Ancelotti...

    • Posted December 21, 2013
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