Pep Guardiola is the coach who changes the history of the game – 06/11/2023 – PVC

You’ve already read here that Guardiola was nervous before the decision against Internazionale. Perhaps because of his historic struggle against Italian clubs and coaches, he left his natural peace of mind to walk up and down the technical area and ask his fans for corners.

The tension of the decision aside, Guardiola is a transformer.

The greatest thinker in the history of the game was Johan Cruyff, coach of Barcelona between 1989 and 1996. The Dutchman had a more tense nature, he had a heart attack because of the cigarette and the high level of explosiveness, he never insisted on establishing himself as the greatest coach in history.

Guardiola does not say, but he wants to.

A chapter in the book about his trajectory, written by the Spaniard Martí Perarnau, says that his greatest pleasure is to see players evolve. Messi is a genius. He became the best in the world when he was under his command. It was his idea to transform him into a false nine, a function that Cruyff performed and that Stoitchkov exercised, when Guardiola was a defensive midfielder and Johan his master at Barcelona.

He recreated the WM, a system after the change in the offside law, in 1925, with three defenders, two midfielders and five forwards. Journalist Jonathan Wilson, author of “The Inverted Pyramid”, agrees: “Many times during a game it’s like that. Pep really likes to counterattack counterattacks posted that way.”

To do so, he turned the rough Stones defender into a refined midfielder, who changes roles during games. He launched an attack with five men, Bernardo Silva, De Bruyne, Haaland, Gündogan and Grealish, posted like a W, from the formation of the 1920s created by the Scotsman Herbert Chapman.

Guardiola is the greatest coach on the planet, and perhaps will become the greatest in history, for rediscovering past systems in literature that can be recreated by the evolved physical condition of today’s players. Also for not getting tired of making his team members improve, which he can only do by looking at what they can produce, not what he himself produced as an athlete.

When he debuted as coach of Barcelona, ​​in 2008, with a defeat at home to Numancia and the endorsement of his master Johan Cruyff, those who knew him from the B team knew of his potential.

What was not known was his obsession.

The same one Cruyff didn’t have. The patience of winning games with his style, learning to play differently in Germany, relearning in England, a championship in which he debuted with the only third place in his career, in the 2016/17 season.

It’s relatively easy to know when Manchester City will stop. Simple, when Sheikh Mansour gets tired of his toy, as Roman Abramovich got tired of his, before being asked to leave Chelsea for the War in Ukraine. City can go back to being an ordinary club without Arab money.

Not Guardiola. It’s impossible to know when and you’ll get tired of thinking about football 24 hours a day. The most professional coach in the history of football is also driven by pure passion.

That’s why it works so well.

Guardiola invented Messi with a fake 9 and won the Champions twice like that. Now, he reinvents the WM, used in many moments of several games during the season. All this to be champion again.

Guardiola changes the game.

THE SYSTEM

It’s not fair to other coaches to say that only Guardiola is using variations to 3-2-5 or 2-3-5. He was the one who did it first, still at Bayern, and he does it better. But Jorge Sampaoli and Abel Ferreira are examples, in Flamengo and Palmeiras, of teams that play in this design when they attack.

IN ITALIAN

Italy is a symbol for Brazil of how you can overthrow a team in such an overwhelming way, even having teams competent enough to be runners-up in the three European competitions. The Italians were the center of the tactical and strategic game. Today they can only defend themselves.

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