Pep Guardiola

Pep Guardiola is currently the manager at Manchester City. He started his managerial career where he spent most of his playing career at Spanish club FC Barcelona. He spent four years there and in his first year as manager he won the treble, winning the Spanish League title called La Liga, domestic cup called the Copa del Rey, and the UEFA Champions League a competition with all of Europes top teams all in the same season. He would go on to win the La Liga and the Copa del Rey another two more times and the Champions League one more time. After he left Barcelona, he then went to Germany to manage Bayern Munich where he would win the German league called the Bundesliga in all three of the years he was with the club. He also won the German domestic cup the DFB-Pokal in two out of the three years with the club. He failed to win the Champions League with Bayern making the semi-finals all three years with Bayern. Guardiola is known for his possession based, high pressure, and attacking philosophy. In his teams every player is expected to help in the build up, even the goalkeeper. To play in a Guardiola team you must have good technical ability as well as willing to work hard in possession and working hard to win the ball back when the team is not in possession.

Manchester City brought in Guardiola to help the team win the Champions League. He started well with Manchester City winning his first ten games in all competitions. But, adapting to a new league as well as implementing a new system in a team is always difficult. Manchester City are currently in 4th place in the Premier League 11 points behind 1st place Chelsea. Guardiola hasn't won any major trophies with Manchester City yet, but he has won Premier League Manager of the Month in February.