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00:04Beb? Who is Beb?
00:08The genius.
00:11Maybe sometimes crazy genius.
00:13He's made the game more beautiful.
00:16He's cracked the code for football.
00:17Influential, right?
00:20The best manager in the world.
00:21He changed everything.
00:22I think he's changed how the game is understood,
00:24how the game should be played.
00:26We know what he expects and we know what he demands.
00:30Football obsessed.
00:31Obsessed of every detail.
00:33It is about the beauty of the football.
00:35For me as the best, a lot of difference.
00:37He's looking always for the perfection.
00:39Beb is a sentiment.
00:41Everybody plays like Pep's teams now. Everyone.
00:44They see that they can win, but also because it's beautiful.
00:49There's a football before Guardiola and a football after Guardiola.
00:56What is the ultimate?
00:58They call it, what's the best?
01:11What's the most important to you?
01:14We've got a lot of kids.
01:18I don't know where we have to play.
01:19We've got the worst, we've got to play.
01:21That's the best and most good news.
01:21I don't know where we have to play.
01:22It's a bit too much.
01:25and the fact that I could be here,
01:28I was a footballer, I was a footballer,
01:30and I started from zero.
01:37We played together in the 90s.
01:43When I became a sports director in Barcelona,
01:47I told me that he wanted to be a coach
01:49and he wanted to start in the academy.
01:53Everything started there.
01:57Were you surprised that you wanted to be a coach
01:59and that was the road?
02:01No, no, no. It was a matter of time.
02:11You know, when you're a Barcelona B coach,
02:14the pressure is a little bit different.
02:16It has nothing to do with being a first-team coach.
02:20Your main job as a Barcelona B coach
02:22is how are my players progressing?
02:26But in those divisions, you also have a lot of games
02:29in which the grass is not properly cut.
02:32It's not a fun place to play.
02:34It's not like a beautiful stadium.
02:36And you also need to know how to compete
02:38and you need to know how to win.
02:41So I think that's a lecture for the players,
02:43but also for a coach,
02:44to sometimes think out of the box.
02:52Most of the players we don't know.
03:13It's like this.
03:17Pep is a sponge, we're talking a thousand times.
03:20He learns very quickly about everything and about everyone.
03:28And then he became a team,
03:30which at the beginning was a group of very good players,
03:33but they were placed all at the middle with sense sense,
03:37but not much sense.
03:39He was partying quickly with a very compact team,
03:42which he played very well with football.
04:00Pep va quedar campió de tercera,
04:02i, a més, amb l'alt playoff va pujar.
04:09El que va fer molt bé, el Tercer Divisió,
04:11no només per quedar campió de pujar,
04:15sinó per la manera que jugava i que transmetia.
04:17No, no, no, no.
04:24What was interesting, of course, is that at the same time,
04:28the first team was in chaos.
04:34There was actually a friendly,
04:35the first team against Pep Guardiola's B-side.
04:41Do you remember that?
04:43Yes, I remember it,
04:45because I don't think I've run and chased the ball as much, ever.
04:51The first team players didn't take it as seriously as we should have.
04:55We had some of the best players in the history of the game.
04:58Ronaldinho, Deco, Samuel Etou.
05:03They won everything,
05:05but something went wrong a little bit collectively.
05:08The dressing room just wasn't in sync.
05:23Ronaldinho plays bongos until two in the morning every night.
05:27Everybody sees that.
05:28Everybody has cellular phones and takes pictures of him,
05:30so everybody knows we have a discipline problem.
05:43People will walk into the changing room and,
05:46shh, Ronaldinho's sleeping,
05:47and they will put the light off a little bit
05:49because that was the kind of environment that was created.
05:55I worked with Frank Rijkaard for five years,
05:58but it's through that season
06:00we were thinking that we had to change the manager in the first team.
06:03And then we started thinking on candidates.
06:06Remember the problems we had at the time?
06:09Ronaldinho is getting old,
06:11he's partying all the time,
06:13trying to suck Messi into his lifetime.
06:17How do you stop it?
06:19Well, we need a sergeant, we need a general.
06:23Who is the greatest general in the world?
06:25Jose Mourinho.
06:29Tag Guardiola only coached the B team for one year.
06:33Jose Mourinho has won the Champions League.
06:39The solution seemed obvious.
06:41Unfortunately, Jose Mourinho doesn't fit what we call Barcelona DNA.
06:50Barcelona realised that one way to succeed in football was to create your own players.
06:55So they gave a lot of respect to the academy called La Masia.
07:01La Masia is next to the Camno,
07:03and in there they teach a way of living and a way of being.
07:09So when Pep Guardiola gets invited to stay in his early teens,
07:14he's surrounded by coaches, by players like him,
07:19and was clearly inspired by watching the first team when he was a ball boy.
07:27When I was a ball boy, I came to see the ball boy with my ball boy with my ball
07:31boy with my ball boy.
07:32I was there.
07:36When I was a ball boy, he was a ball boy with my ball boy with my ball boy.
07:49The sport was a sport.
07:55If I could talk a little while with Valero Rivera, who was the coach of the Balonman then,
08:01I would talk a little while with him and he would explain how he would do it.
08:06When you go to the left, he would come to the right
08:09and you have created the ball so that they can enter,
08:11by moving quickly the ball from one side and the other.
08:17I'm sure he has put it in the head of the Balonman, I'm sure.
08:25A lot of the young players, when they stay in La Masia, they end up looking for father figures.
08:31And I think Pep Guardiola found one or two coaches that did that for him,
08:35but certainly Johan Cruyff.
08:41The relationship between Cruyff and Guardiola
08:45is probably one of the most important relationships in the history of the game.
08:52Johan Cruyff was a visionary as a coach, as a player.
08:57He was just the majestic embodiment of total football.
09:03It was a celebration of technique, intelligence of movement,
09:08being a chess grandmaster on the pitch, working one move ahead.
09:13This morning, at the training camp of the Masia, there were two new players,
09:16two players who have started to train with the first team of the Barça.
09:20This is Josep Guardiola.
09:22It's still not about to believe that Cruyff
09:24has been called to train with the professionals.
09:26What I wanted was to play with the boys this year,
09:29and try to give up to the Barça Atlético.
09:31But, well, if this happened, it's better for me to continue working.
09:35When Pep Guardiola came through at Barcelona,
09:37when Johan Cruyff saw this talent,
09:40but it was also challenging him.
09:44And Pep Guardiola was inspired by that.
09:48It's a spaghetti.
09:50It has a privilege to interpret what Johan demands.
10:00But since he was young,
10:03when Pep was playing with the team, he was playing.
10:10Destiny brought them together,
10:11and all the necessities that my father's kind of football system had.
10:16I think that was a great fit.
10:25Everything started there.
10:26When we met and we were together in that football team.
10:30Johan basically transmitted this mentality
10:32of being the best is playing this way.
10:37If a manager tries to convince players to do that,
10:41it has to be reinforced by winning something.
10:47I think he was backed by the four consecutive leagues,
10:49and then the first Champions League in Wembley.
10:52You know, he had a different mindset.
10:54But you're considered crazy until you're a genius.
11:10And when you win titles, you create belief.
11:13The crazy guy suddenly becomes a genius.
11:34When I became a sporting director in Barcelona in 2003,
11:37I started to always introduce the same philosophy.
11:40We had to be back to those times, no?
11:50Pep was the soul of Concepción
11:53that, through Johan,
11:55had been built in the first team.
12:00We would never know what would have happened
12:02if Mourinho was the chosen one,
12:05but I think there was no doubt
12:07that Guardiola was the right choice.
12:10Pep Guamela!
12:15No us prometrem que guanyarem algun títol.
12:21Ho intentarem i persistirem.
12:24Apreteu-vos els cinturons, que ens ho passarem bé.
12:28No, no, no.
12:31Estic molt sa, estic molt sa, sí.
12:34La primera va ser una trucada
12:37perquè nosaltres estàvem a l'Eurocopa.
12:45Ens juguem molt i no podem fallar
12:48i aquí hem d'estar tots i hem de remar tots en la mateixa direcció.
12:54I el Pep, el dia que va arribar al Barça,
12:56sabia que aquella etapa de Rijkaard s'havia d'acabar
13:00i s'havia d'acabar al principi.
13:03I al principi era Ronaldinho.
13:06Aquest fora, aquest fora, aquest fora.
13:11Everybody that stayed
13:12saw that he meant business.
13:16As soon as we turned up for preseason,
13:18we realised it was a season where we had to win something.
13:22And it felt like it almost fell apart
13:24in the first game of the season
13:25against one of the smallest teams in Spain.
13:31Barcelona is such a special club,
13:34but also a difficult club.
13:35You know, you have a knife on your neck
13:36every single game.
13:41Barcelona is a very toxic place
13:44when it comes to football.
13:54Sinicis diria que en cuanto a resultats no van ser bons.
13:57They were bottom three, after two games.
14:00One draw against Rathing,
14:01and a defeat against Numancia,
14:03who had just been promoted.
14:04Already some decisions have been made,
14:06like having Pedro and Busquets in the line-up.
14:09They just were kids that had just arrived from the V-side,
14:13but were very important for what he was trying to do.
14:16Every defeat and every draw would be used by the media to say,
14:20he wasn't experienced.
14:21He should have been Jose Mourinho.
14:23And everyone tries to kill you
14:24because of the decision you have made.
14:28In the middle of all that,
14:29Johan Cruyff wrote a very famous article
14:31in which he said,
14:32this is the best Barcelona
14:33in a long, long, long, long time.
14:38That was my father.
14:39He would have these kind of protective reactions
14:41but also because he believed in Pep.
14:43100%.
14:44Me, personally,
14:45I was so convinced
14:45because what the players say.
14:47The players,
14:47they were absolutely excited.
14:54Sí, yo creo que es va trobar
14:56un entrenador
14:57molt bo, revolucionari.
14:59Yo creo que miraba
15:01molt els petits detalls.
15:03How can you dominate possession?
15:05If you can keep the ball,
15:06the opposition doesn't score.
15:11How can you do it?
15:13Al Pep,
15:14hi ha tres coses fonamentals,
15:15que és bona sortida pilota des de darrere,
15:17moure molt els rivals
15:19per trobar allà on hi ha els espais
15:21per atacar millor,
15:22i la pressió alta.
15:23Intentar recuperar-la
15:24el més ràpidament possible
15:25per tenir-la.
15:26Vol tenir la pilota
15:27al millor temps possible.
15:29Un símil relambol, no?
15:31Moure una mica els jugadors
15:32per trobar el moment just d'atacar.
15:35He wanted our fullbacks
15:36so high up the pitch
15:39that we would force the opposition
15:41to sit back.
15:44Risky,
15:45if you lose the ball.
15:46But we had Busquets,
15:47Xavi, Iniesta
15:49and Messi.
15:50I don't think the opposition
15:51believes they can win the ball
15:53off those four.
15:54We found the formula.
15:58The fly.
15:59For me, it was one of my first experience
16:02as a broadcast journalist.
16:05And it was fun.
16:08They played this beautiful football.
16:10Everything was new, fresh.
16:12It was a beautiful story to tell.
16:14Guardiola, that kid from La Masia,
16:16that he was becoming a great manager.
16:19Lionel Messi.
16:20The story of Andres Iniesta.
16:22The return of Piqué.
16:23Puyol.
16:24The spirit.
16:26Brave football.
16:27Attacking football.
16:28Dominating the game.
16:29The possession.
16:30He made it something so much fun to watch.
16:34Even though you know what kind of football
16:37you were about to watch,
16:38it was unpredictable.
16:39May the second, 2009,
16:41is when Barcelona played Real Madrid
16:43in his first year.
16:44Barcelona had to go to Madrid.
16:46If they got a result,
16:48they probably would wrap up the league.
16:50Guardo las primeras palabras
16:52al principio de semana del Pep
16:53que si vamos al Bernabéu
16:55con la intención de que el empate nos vale,
16:58vamos a perder.
16:59Entonces vamos a ir allí a ganar.
17:02Pep em diu si em puc esperar
17:04que vindrà el Leo
17:05que li vol comentar una sèrie de coses
17:07a veure si ell s'ho sent pel Bernabéu, no?
17:30What if we switch and put Messi
17:33not on the center forward
17:35but in the midfield
17:36with the 30 meters to run?
17:38El Leo li va encantar.
17:40Jo a dins meu,
17:42i t'he de ser molt clar,
17:42i pensava,
17:43hosti, això per què no ho fa un altre dia?
17:45Però el Pep tenia un convenciment total.
17:48That day, I think,
17:49changed the history of football,
17:52the history of FC Barcelona
17:54and the history of Messi.
17:58They destroyed Real Madrid
18:00in the style that Pep Guardiola wanted.
18:04It was a 6-2 historic score line.
18:12From that moment on,
18:15he was one of the greatest teams ever to play.
18:20You're considered crazy until you're a genius.
18:24And when you win titles,
18:25you create belief.
18:28The crazy guy suddenly becomes a genius.
18:41The world came to a realization of
18:44this is how the game should be played.
18:47That thing was unbelievable.
18:49They were playing the best football of the world.
18:53And it was in the first season.
18:55They won absolutely everything.
18:57Six trophies.
18:57Nobody had ever done that before.
19:00And it all started when he made that innovation.
19:04Messi in midfield.
19:07False nine.
19:12I remember that Inter Milan game
19:13against Barcelona in 2010.
19:15And that was Jose Mourinho,
19:18the arch pragmatist,
19:19taking on this purist,
19:21this poet,
19:22this high priest of the beautiful game
19:24and just destroying him.
19:27Jose Mourinho's revenge,
19:29that rejection he had felt
19:31by not being chosen ahead of Pep Guardiola
19:33as the manager of Barcelona.
19:36Inter Milan won the Champions League that year.
19:40By beating Barcelona,
19:41Jose Mourinho became a Real Madrid hero.
19:44Real Madrid at that point did not know
19:47how to beat Pep Guardiola.
19:50And then suddenly,
19:51Real Madrid realized that to compete with Barcelona,
19:54they needed to get Jose Mourinho in.
19:56The man who was adept at spoiling other people's parties.
20:04When Pep was a player,
20:06Jose Mourinho was the assistant manager of first Bobby Robson
20:09and then with Van Gaal.
20:11They were beyond professionals in the same team.
20:15There was a friendship there.
20:17After that,
20:18when Mourinho entered Madrid,
20:20Mourinho was looking for a way to win
20:23a bit complicated
20:25for the way to understand Pep's football.
20:28I mean, as a journalist,
20:30the Pep-Jose narrative was extraordinary.
20:34These two opposites.
20:36Darkness against light,
20:38that's how it was often pitched.
20:40There's always rivalry,
20:41Barça-Madrid.
20:42But of course,
20:43we put Mourinho,
20:44clashes get magnified.
20:46Because he's not a real gentleman,
20:48right?
20:48He doesn't act the Barcelona way in the field.
20:52There were the two best teams in the world
20:55battling for the same trophies.
20:58Pep and Mourinho,
20:59la rivalitat Messi-Cristiano.
21:01Després,
21:02els dos equips.
21:04And in the semifinals of the Champions League,
21:07you couldn't have written a better script.
21:09Jose Mourinho's Real Madrid
21:11against Pep Guardiola's Barcelona.
21:14Jose Mourinho knew that to beat Barcelona,
21:16he had to go after Pep.
21:19Que es la era de un tercer grupo,
21:21que es el grupo,
21:22que en este momento solo tiene una persona,
21:24que es él,
21:25que es criticar el acierto del árbitro.
21:30Esto yo nunca había visto,
21:32el mundo del fútbol nunca había visto.
21:45No sé cuál es la cámara del señor José,
21:48deben ser todos,
21:49deben ser todas estas.
21:51Pues está todos,
21:52todos escoltando.
21:54Mañana a las 8 y 45,
21:55nos enfrentamos aquí en el campo,
21:57fuera del campo,
21:58y ha ganado.
22:00Le regalo su Champions particular fuera del campo.
22:03Que Mourinho lo convierte en algo personal
22:05y Pep no quiere entrar en eso,
22:06entonces cuando le dice,
22:07esto para ti,
22:09esto es tuyo.
22:11En esta sala,
22:12él es el p***o jefe,
22:13el p***o amo,
22:14es el que más sabe del mundo.
22:15Yo no quiero ni competir ni un instante.
22:18Y esto va a ser el Barça-Madrid.
22:20Y eso es para ti.
22:22Eso a la sala de prensa es tu.
22:23Tots ficarnos a aplaudir
22:26y ovacionarlo
22:27per com ens había defensat.
22:29Let's meet in the field.
22:33On the pitch,
22:35he tried to suffocate Barcelona.
22:40Si ello dona,
22:42es normal que se lo trobi.
23:01El Pep es igual de un tío.
23:04Yo creo que tendría que ser más fill de p***.
23:10La segunda,
23:12yo hace tiempo que no recuerdo una final
23:14con un equipo que sea tan superior.
23:16Sobretot en el estilo…
23:19Allá supongo que se va a reflexionar al 100%
23:21l'estil Pep.
23:23A veces las finales no son muy hermosas
23:26porque hay mucho,
23:28hay mucha presencia.
23:29Y ellos ganan
23:30esas dos Champions League final
23:32contra el Man United
23:33dominando,
23:34los trajeron
23:35con hermosos fútbol
23:36con hermosos gols.
23:39Vamos a correr el Manchester United
23:41por todo el campo.
23:44Vamos a reflexionar
23:45toda la idea del Pep
23:49y lo que
23:50él va a transmitir
23:51alrededor del mundo.
23:53Yo creo que será eterno
23:54aquella equipo
23:55no solo por lo que va a guanyar
23:56sino por cómo lo va a guanyar.
24:00Cuando ves algo hermoso
24:02algo hermoso
24:02algo dentro de ti
24:05es brillante.
24:07Pergusson ha dicho eso.
24:08Es el mejor equipo
24:09que se enfrenta
24:09y nadie nos ha dado
24:10a caer con eso.
24:12Entonces,
24:12lo merecen porque
24:13se juegan de manera correcta.
24:15Incluso él
24:16perdiendo la final
24:17ha dicho
24:17¡Guau!
24:21¿Has empezado a buscar
24:23otro trabajo
24:23porque no tienes
24:24desafíos?
24:26Tengo que buscar
24:27a mí mismo
24:27dentro de mí.
24:30Ahora
24:30tengo la intención
24:31de continuar
24:32un año más
24:32y después
24:33vamos a ver.
24:34que se puede hacer.
24:39El equipo
24:40tal vez ha llegado
24:41su potencial.
24:44Tener al Barça no es fácil,
24:47hay mucha presión,
24:48van ser años
24:49muy intensos.
24:50very intense.
25:09You need to have that life, that passion,
25:12that energy so necessary
25:15to protect you so many things,
25:18so that each game can demonstrate
25:20that they have the ability to continue enjoying
25:22and enjoy.
25:24It was a lot to me.
25:30I don't fully believe this idea
25:31that he needed to run away from Real Madrid
25:33and from the conflict that Josef created.
25:36But what I did see at the time very closely
25:38was somebody that had to take pills to sleep,
25:41leadership at the top,
25:42the chairman had changed.
25:43I said to him
25:45that he had to stay
25:46and that the team wanted to stay.
25:49I, as a capital,
25:50I was going to transmit it,
25:51but he had taken the decision.
25:59and he was going to make it
26:00He said to me,
26:02I'm going to sell my own purpose.
26:18He said to me,
26:19I'm going to sell my own power.
26:22home home home wife kids they close the door and always I'm safe I think after
26:33Barcelona went to New York especially for my family
26:49in the States I thought we'll be far away from football be free and I can do the silly and
26:57stupid things there don't be judged in New York he was almost a kid in San Pedro I think it's
27:06impossible to live more happy a boy like I live you know little town every day in the street
27:13football basketball tennis until mom said okay time to have dinner and come back home the life
27:20sometimes is short sometimes long but then we wake up every morning and you're going to do something
27:26love that isn't enough in New York his mind was free to wander places that are not football he just
27:37wanted to fill his head with more knowledge unfortunately it didn't last very long
27:49his priority became to learn German
27:56when we're in München ruf dir dich dich dich so is a Riesenherre for me in the scalp
28:10bin ich hier
28:17die Wetterhose die saß auch ganz gut bei ihm und für ihn das muss man sagen weil er vielleicht das
28:25auch so
28:25ein bisschen unterschätzt hat weil es auf dem Oktoberfest teilweise auch stark Biere gibt
28:32Pep's Missfortune in a way was going into a club that had just won the Champions League
28:37kommen mit einem großen Erfolg den besten und größten den der Verein jemals gehabt hat
28:47das musste er und wollte er natürlich auch wieder so erfolgreich gestalten wie zuvor und das war keine
28:55eine leichte Aufgabe
29:04we heard a lot of players saying we don't quite understand what he's trying to do and it's
29:08too much teilweise hat er dann auch Übungseinheiten abgebrochen hat uns reingeschickt da hat er auch
29:14keinen Bock drauf gehabt dann ist er beleidigt gewesen und hat gesagt wenn es nicht lernen wollt dann lernen wir
29:20es halt nicht
29:20so hat er uns aber auch eigentlich erzogen und ihm war die kleinste kleinigkeit halt extrem wichtig damit wir es
29:42auf dem Platz umsetzen können und lernen
29:45they had a bad start they lost heavily against Dortmund in the Supercup where the counter-attacks just went bang
29:52bang bang and Bayern had no defense
30:10ich glaube dass es oft so gewesen ist dass viele Mannschaften sich hinten reingestellt haben und das war eher so
30:18dass man zwei Busse hinten
30:20geparkt hat und wir haben so ein bisschen drumherum gespielt und versucht einfach Lösungen zu finden
30:29seine Philosophie war einfach so gut dass wir gemerkt haben wenn wir sie umsetzen dann es gibt es eine 90
30:36prozentige Chance dass wir den Gegner schlagen und hier als Sieger vom Platz gehen
30:42ich erinnere mich genauer erinnere mich genauer erinnere ich mich genauer erinnere mich genauer erinnere mich genauer
30:46ich kann euch nicht helfen wenn du in der Boxen in der Boxen wenn du den Ball hast du besser
30:50als ich
30:50aber ich kann euch helfen wie du den Ball bringen in der Boxen und das war für mich der Genieus
31:02bei September October this Bayern team were playing a football that hadn't really been seen before
31:09ell es reinventava jugàvem amb cinc davanters i va ser un festival
31:14they were completely untouchable and they only started losing games when they had won the title
31:19that's when they eased off with the view of protecting players for the Champions League
31:24the 2014 semi-final is a very pivotal moment in the Pep reign of Bayern
31:29they go to Madrid and they dominate they dominate in a way that no Bayern team
31:34probably ever has at the Bernabeu but they don't score and they concede a goal so they lose 1-0
31:39and as they prepare for the second game Guardiola second guesses himself and is not sure whether his
31:47idea of total control whether the players responded and he decides to ask some of the players
31:54and the players say we want to really go for it
31:59er kennt ja auch Real Madrid aber er wollte mit uns einfach darüber sprechen
32:04wollte uns ins Boot holen und geht von der Philosophie die wir das ganze Jahr
32:09über gespielt haben so ein bisschen weg aber am Ende haben wir gemerkt das hätte er
32:15nicht machen dürfen
32:20für ihn persönlich war es brutal hart weil er sich das so gewünscht hat natürlich auch
32:25mit seinem Fußball den er auch in Barcelona gespielt hat hier in der Bundesliga nicht nur
32:29und im Cup Wettbewerb also im DFB Pokal
32:34da hat er nicht ganz so auf sich gehört sondern hat uns so viel gefragt glaube ich
32:41Massage
32:42ich denke dass ich dann sag nicht
32:45ich denke ich weiß dass ich nicht
32:46wir gehen
32:48ich habe zu haben
32:48ich mache dann
32:49ich mache eine Lösung
32:50und manchmal
32:51da immer ich werde falsch
32:54Ich denke, er hat sich sehr unreset, wenn
32:56die Mitarbeiter der gegnerną gekommen, die
32:58der anderen gewinnen und der Sapkir kamen über die
33:00B ... dass das und das
33:01sollte pauscheln
33:01das ist normal für das
33:03but I think he took it personally and then sporting director Matthias Sommer next to him on the bench
33:10and after the game talking about how the team had played and what he didn't like and so on
33:17that was the first time when we heard rumors that maybe it's not really the perfect place
33:23Pep is a very faithful man and he needs very faithful people
33:42in 2012 Manchester City hired Chiqui Bergierstein and Ferran Soriano the two executives he'd worked with at Barcelona people that
33:50he trusted
33:52when I finished in Barcelona 2010 I wanted to come to the Premier League so
33:57of course I was thinking that maybe one day we could work together you know
34:01when I had to sign a player who was playing in the Bundesliga I was always talking to him
34:11and then I was telling him how amazing was the life here for us so it was a little bit
34:21tricky
34:23it's a massive breaking news in the last half an hour the Bayern Munich manager Pep Guardiola is going
34:28to become Manchester City's new head coach at the end of the season of speculation about this not too
34:33many managers get appointed five months in advance but then not too many managers are like Pep Guardiola
34:43that last year the spectre of Guardiola leaving was hanging over the whole season
34:51Pep Guardiola will go to Manchester City having failed to win the Champions League at Bayern Munich
35:07I first met Pep when he was getting off a plane at Manchester airport
35:14you know he just looked so much like a sort of Spanish tourist if you like he's just in really
35:19relaxed
35:21clothes I was asked by a Spanish agent to find a Premier League football club where he would go on
35:28trial he was 34 and he was very serious about getting a contract in the Premier League when we
35:34first arrived at the club we walked down a corridor and Andy Cole came out of the dressing room and
35:39he
35:39sort of did that you know sort of hero worship and then we went to see the home game against
35:45West Bromwich
35:46Albion not a great advert for the Premier League and then he ended up in Mexico that's how we were
35:51at the
35:51time El Senor the man welcome to Manchester the City in 2005 was such a different club to the one
36:05he joined as head coach in 2016. City's a club on the up and this is proof you know he's
36:11the biggest
36:11football manager in the world it's a new circuit you know we felt elevated you felt taller
36:22we hope that you're going to get addicted to the place and the weather right and that you're going
36:26to stay forever
36:33there was this thing where he wanted to be in the city and just experience it and feel it
36:39and i was like well people are going to love you they're going to love you such is the status
36:45of
36:45pep guardiola that city's tag of title favorites is hung on his presence lots of people saying look
36:52at the side that he had at barcelona he walked into the treble winners at bayern munich this is a
36:56test
36:57for him he had all his own way in spain and in germany he can't just walk into the premier
37:01league and
37:01expect to take it by storm this is a different kettle of fish people say you will not be able
37:06to do
37:06that in england ten wins in ten the perfect start so okay let's do it he's going to try
37:27join the mics up or down guys
37:31that that that was a tough season pet busy day huh busy day yeah it's five games without a win
37:39for
37:40manchester city what's happening that was a very tough season we lived in manchester at the time and
37:47we talked to him very often and he was he was a drama so here we are five months into
37:53your job at
37:54manchester city how would you describe your experiences so far good time you know for the
38:00first time ever in his career he you know things were not working for a shambles he's missing the
38:08point he doesn't get it i'd rather watch liverpool attack the man city he can be as arrogant as he
38:13likes in terms of will play from the back but brian cluff would have turned in his grave how much
38:18defending really did barcelona have to do you know he's being found out completely so he's gonna
38:24fail he's gonna fail when the results are not going well do you ever think maybe i should change a
38:32little uh you would like that huh no no i'm not going to change do you know why as well
38:38because in
38:39seven years i won 21 titles i'm sorry guy i won 21 titles in seven years so it's three titles
38:47per
38:47year playing that way the entire premier league has gone ah in his face so it's not going to work
38:59this total football nonsense it's not going to work we don't play with little boys chavis and iniestas
39:05are not going to work here because we're just going to you know kick them out of the field
39:12the first season probably is always the most difficult one isn't it i mean you come to a new
39:16league you play against teams that you have never faced before um new culture maybe not 100
39:22the team that you want you know the players that you want
39:27he became crazy you know the feeling of maybe i can't he's always he's blaming himself
39:35you want to defend what you are looking for what you believe to make a step forward
39:41people say no i don't have fear it doesn't matter if you lose no
39:45everybody has fears you know who is the most influential person in your development
39:50johann cruyff by far he helped me to love that game
39:55johann cruyff has died at the age of 68 from lung cancer the dutch fa says he was the country's
40:01greatest footballer one of the best in the world when pep is in a difficult moment or when you have
40:08doubts about decision you look up a bit and you know close your eyes a few seconds say what would
40:13johann do all the managers have doubts in that moment you think you are not able to be coach anymore
40:20your doubts about your decisions you doubt about the players in that moment i don't know why he comes
40:28he comes and remember me you have to do what do you believe
40:39no no i'm not going to change
40:44so at the end of the first season we've just managed to get into the top four
40:48you're thinking well the pressure's on this guy here and i'm on the phone to him and he said don't
40:53worry it's going to be different next season and i was like right and he said we're going to win
40:58next
40:59season we're going to win the league this season coming up you need a trophy no yeah yeah people say
41:05that yeah he knew you know you know we just started the season with the bank
41:18one of the great seasons in premier league history it's unbelievable some of it
41:26it's total football he's brought a brand of football to the premier league that we've never
41:31seen before it's been sparkling i mean a lot of people say you cannot do this in england with this
41:36place you cannot do it keep doing it he's proved everybody wrong i was so happy and look what
41:42happened it's going to change the country again the record 100 points the feeling was just
41:49incredible because of how big the achievement was and he built an empire manchester city become
41:57champions champions for the fourth time in five seasons
42:03that is the ultimate mark of how good a team actually is now they're not one year
42:10it worked it dominated and england changed
42:21pep guardiola has essential beliefs the power of possession teamwork intelligence of movement but he does change
42:30and this is why all opposing managers have such difficulty trying to keep up with pep guardiola because he keeps
42:38writing the script for each game he always tweak something where someone will move in a different
42:58position and it makes a massive difference in the premier league it changed the way everybody plays
43:04everybody's looking for a keeper who's almost like a center half he's played with a false nine he's played
43:12with a right back stepping into midfield he's played with inverted wingers
43:20it's just sometimes to put the puzzle together you know to get the perfect outcome
43:26manchester city dominated domestically but there definitely was this sense that the champions league
43:33was the thing that pep really wanted
43:38it was this thing like oh he won the champions league because of messi
43:43manchester city are right in the champions league head and hands for guardiola
43:48he's the only point that you can attack pep and the champion league was like okay yeah premier league
43:54so the premier league became like a something easy and suddenly it was ah he's nowhere in the champion
43:59league uh the champion league it was clearly the champions league that he was going to be judged by
44:04and i think that is right because abu dhabi was forking out fortunes to him to player recruitment to the
44:11facilities they are doing that pretty much because they wanted the champions league champions league's
44:17absolutely huge we can give you the manchester city team and it's interesting we've been debating
44:24about whether it would be fernandinho whether it would be rodri whether it would be both of them
44:29in fact neither of them are in the team they're both on the bench
44:35no he didn't explain when we train two three days before the final he already decided the team
44:49kai havert goes through and scores and city's hearts are broken again
44:55it just really felt like the champions league was out of our grasp
45:00i wanted to disappear in that moment i remember silence in the locker room silence everywhere
45:09to not play rodri in the champions league final is something that i'll never understand
45:14was that an error from pep guardiola this evening i don't know why pep when it gets to the big
45:18major
45:18finals it always confuses it he's got to go i think he's made this final about how many champions
45:23leagues has he won without messi take your dad out of your backside and pick your best team to win
45:27that game
45:28i think you'd have to be a brave person to tell him to his face that he's an overthinker he
45:33was
45:33always like that so i don't think it was something that he was specially doing for for champions league
45:37or the big games or whatever i think there was a little bit of delight amongst these critics you
45:53know you haven't won the champions league this is the trophy that has defined you as a player
45:58and as a coach at barcelona you spent a billion pounds even now got to do it you haven't done
46:04it yet
46:07he knows how important is for everyone also for himself but we were together we have to help him
46:16just to do the same things to be success you first have to fail
46:25the way we performed in that game that was a turning point for us we seem to hit form just
46:31at the right time we're on the verge of doing something special here everyone kept on saying
46:35the treble the treble the treble it's possible of course it's possible but not many teams have done it
46:40fa cup final and champions league final two games two titles as simple as that manchester city have
46:48done the double one to go if we didn't win the fa cup you've got the other side of the
46:54city saying
46:55we're still the only team to win the treble in england
47:00obviously the pressure then mounts on him because okay man sitting in another champions league final
47:05ditch winning it was crazy because it's to win the treble to be part of history again
47:23it was like the last step
47:29it's very special for me to be honest
47:35a moment i'll never forget it's the relief i think for pep it was something very special
47:42we are so happy for him
47:56he almost had tears in his eyes and he looked at his family and the players
48:01i don't know i think he was in the sky like enjoying that
48:06he was just happy he loves that trophy it is the defining moment for a great coach
48:14i'm good manager honestly thank you so much pep i'm good but people expect i have to win travels every
48:20season i like this competition for the fact that we won it will be remembered for the rest of the
48:32life
48:33but now give credit to the fact five premiers we won in last six years together
48:41it's unbelievable unbelievable it's not just the champions league it's many many many titles
48:48behind the champions league
48:55i'm quite sure there's a lot of people saying yeah yeah he did in barcelona with messi
49:00to finally also win the champions league with city i think took that
49:03last bit that he probably still needed to prove himself
49:12it was a statement that his philosophy worked
49:17you know what he started at barcelona and was brought to city
49:21it's bigger than the champions league and all that
49:26his legacy has been played out in every football pitch in england every sunday morning
49:34he has revolutionized football everyone wants to be like pep
49:40michael arteta vincent company roberto deserbi marco silva ten hack
49:47my son is six and he wants to be a goalkeeper and we're teaching him that he needs to be
49:52able to use
49:52his feet as well as his hands and that comes from pep guardiola
49:58a shot parla de sembrer
50:05al llagat que ha deixat el pet que tothom el vol copiar
50:12bueno
50:23there's still something innocent inside you know and that's lovely after so many years
50:31he changed the game of football that makes him special
50:46so
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