Whenever a new manager joins a new side, especially an English club, it is customary he will receive lots of confident wishes for his success from his former colleagues and players who have been his admirers and Manchester City is one such side who is set to replace its head coach with 45-year-old Spanish Pep Guardiola and guess he is getting wishes for his success from Barcelona players whom he used to mentor during his Camp Nou regime. Bale, who has been one of his favorite players, is the first one to say current Bayern Munich manager would bring City dominance back in European soccer. Actually, Manchester City failed to live up to the expectations this English as well European season, hence it was expected bosses at the helm would look for an alternate for the top post and after Guardiola showed interest in the job, it was conformed he would land on the Manchester soil as manager for the first time in his career. Maxisport / Shutterstock.com Manchester City’s … [Read more...]
Pep Guardiola confident to deliver better in the second leg after a slim quarterfinal win over Benfica
Champions League is now in the finals stage hence no qualifier is willing to miss any game for any shoddy reason and last Bayern Munich vs. Benfica first leg quarterfinal meeting was one such game where Germen leader had to face a tough resistance from their Portuguese opponents. Although, Allianz Arena side won the game by a narrow 1-0 margin on the board, thanks to second-minute goal by Chile international Arturo Vidal, but it was more a defeat to the Bayern manager Pep Guardiola who was very optimistic for a dominating win before the game. Now, after going through the depth in Estádio da Luz side, 45-year-old Spanish does not want to take any risk hence tiding his shoe for the second leg showdown in Lisbon next week. If we look at this game, though Bayern were more attacking but they were missing target consistently, or you can call it a better defense from the visitors that defused around fifteen attempts by the hosts. Moreover, it is more a failure of Rui Vitória whose men could … [Read more...]
A tough road ahead for Pep Guardiola at ManCity: Alex Ferguson
Whenever any new manager is about to join a pressing English side, he gets advices from every corner and few of them are more a warning that honest suggestion and this is something that seems to be happening with Bayern Munich boss Pep Guardiola who is all set to join Manchester City this summer. Although, 45-year-old highly successful Spanish boss is well known to the culture that resides inside England, yet actual experience is biter than what it seems from outside and former Manchester United great Sir Alex Ferguson is the one who has warned him for his assignment and how difficult it is going to be for him to succeed in front of highly expecting City fans. Ferguson, the 74-year-old former ManU boss has won as many as 13 premier league titles leading the Old Trafford side during his longest n successful spell in England. Moreover, he is known as the most successful English manager of all time and if he is saying something about possible hurdles former Bayern boss would have to come … [Read more...]
Pep Guardiola reveals secrets of his success
No matter how big and successful you are in your professional career you always want to be rich in goodwill than titles, this is a dream of every player and manager but only few of them could successfully achieve this goal. Like, in case of German side Bayern Munich and its head coach Pep Guardiola, they ruled the domestic league last year and Guardiola helped his side win its twenty-fifth title which is an unprecedented feat for now. Although, Spanish’s contract with German giants has one year left yet 44-year-old is in no mood to forgo the respect that he can earn while doing his job honestly. If we scan the contemporary soccer almost everyone wants to do this but when it comes to actually scarify something for it, everyone just run after titles. In case of Spanish mentor, both hold true: he is earning respect along with titles therefore he is over cloud nine these days after his side’s brilliant show in both Bundesliga and Champions League. Talking about his career goal, Guardiola … [Read more...]
Pep explains why he left Barcelona for Bayern Munich
Barcelona has ever been a dream team for every player and backend official; in fact, everyone takes association with it as a big opportunity to prove personal skills in front of the world. Usually, Barca is known to offer long running tenures to its proven talents and Pep Guardiola has been one such notable who spent some four years with Spanish giant and won as many as fourteen titles while serving his dream team that include two Championship leagues along with three domestic titles. There has ever been a suspense about why he suddenly decided to leave the high profile job in 2012; many experts even blamed the breakup to some backend disturbances with club bosses over his extension issue, but no one could ever know the exact reason he left La Liga champions for. The 43-year-old Spanish left the club to Germen powerhouse Bayern Munich leaving Tito Vilanova to take the charge of first coach of the Spanish team. He recently revealed why he left the rewarding job of Camp Nou and called it … [Read more...]