Pep Guardiola was father figure to Barcelona's generation of genius
Richard Williams
For all the 13 trophies and the countless hours of sumptuous football produced during his four years as Barcelona's head coach, nothing in Pep Guardiola's term of office became him like the leaving of it.
Steeped in the club's history and traditions, the young Catalan, in his first senior coaching job, was able to distill the essence of the Barça style and to present it as a new philosophy of the game. He did so with a grace and an intelligence, and a refusal to seek personal attention, that shamed some of his rivals.
However marvellous his achievements to date, it is simply too early to install the 41-year-old in the front rank of history's great football coaches, for one reason: we do not yet know whether his success was the product of an approach that is transferable and applicable to another environment, or whether it was the product of a particular time and place .
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For all the 13 trophies and the countless hours of sumptuous football produced during his four years as Barcelona's head coach, nothing in Pep Guardiola's term of office became him like the leaving of it.
Steeped in the club's history and traditions, the young Catalan, in his first senior coaching job, was able to distill the essence of the Barça style and to present it as a new philosophy of the game. He did so with a grace and an intelligence, and a refusal to seek personal attention, that shamed some of his rivals.
However marvellous his achievements to date, it is simply too early to install the 41-year-old in the front rank of history's great football coaches, for one reason: we do not yet know whether his success was the product of an approach that is transferable and applicable to another environment, or whether it was the product of a particular time and place .
read more here
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