10 Things You Didn’t Know About Pep Guardiola
Pep Guardiola one of the well respected and successful manager of his generation. The Spanish professional football coach and former player Pep is the current manager of Manchester City,but there are 10 things you didn’t know about Pep Guardiola.
1. Regarded as one of the best players of his generation, Guardiola was a creative and technically gifted midfielder who usually played in a deep-lying playmaking role as a defensive midfielder.
2. He spent the majority of his career with Barcelona, forming a part of Johan Cruyff’s “Dream Team” that won the club’s first European Cup in 1992, and four successive La Liga titles from 1991 to 1994. He later captained the team from 1997 to 2001.
3. He then played for Brescia and Roma in Italy, Al-Ahli in Qatar, and Dorados de Sinaloa in Mexico while training to be a manager.
4. While playing in Italy, he served a four-month ban for a positive drug test, although he was cleared of wrongdoing twice on appeal in 2009 before the Courts of Justice of the Italian Football Federation and the Federal Anti-Doping Courts of the Italian Olympic Committee (CONI).
5. Guardiola was capped 47 times for Spain, winning the Olympic Gold Medal in 1992, and later appeared at the 1994 FIFA World Cup and UEFA Euro 2000.
6. As a manager, Guardiola won 14 trophies in the first four years of his managing career.
7. He is one of the most successful managers in the world and is considered by a number of players, managers and commentators to be one of the best managers in the world.
8. In his first season as manager, Guardiola guided Barcelona to a treble, winning La Liga, the Copa del Rey and the UEFA Champions League.
9. In doing so, Guardiola became the youngest manager to win the Champions League.
10. The following season, Guardiola led Barcelona to win the Supercopa de España, the UEFA Super Cup, and the FIFA Club World Cup, bringing his tally to the maximum of six trophies out of six competitions in one year, thus achieving the sextuple.
