He also led the club to their maiden UEFA Champions League Final in 2021, where they lost to Chelsea.Ģ1-year-old Guardiola (right), pictured with FC Barcelona teammates Guillermo Amor, Albert Ferrer, and club vice-president Josep Mussons, in 1992Ĭruyff utilised the young midfielder in the absence of the suspended Guillermo Amor.
To date, he has won four Premier League titles, four EFL Cups, and the FA Cup, including a domestic treble in the 2018–19 season. He left the Bavarians for Manchester City in 2016, and guided them to a Premier League title in his second campaign in charge, breaking numerous domestic records as the team became the first to attain 100 league points. Guardiola won the Bundesliga in each of his three seasons as Bayern manager, including two domestic doubles. He ended his four-year Barcelona stint in 2012 with 14 honours, a club record.Īfter a sabbatical period, Bayern Munich announced Guardiola would join the club as manager in 2013. The same year, he was also named the FIFA World Coach of the Year. In 2011, after leading the club to another La Liga and Champions League double, Guardiola was awarded the Catalan Parliament's Gold Medal, their highest honour. In his first season, he led Barcelona to the treble of La Liga, Copa del Rey, and the UEFA Champions League, becoming the youngest manager to win the latter competition. He took charge of the first-team in 2008. He also played friendly matches for Catalonia.Īfter retiring as a player, Guardiola briefly coached Barcelona B, with whom he won a Tercera División title. He was capped 47 times for the Spanish national team and appeared at the 1994 FIFA World Cup, as well as at UEFA Euro 2000. Guardiola then had stints with Brescia and Roma in Italy, Al-Ahli in Qatar, and Dorados de Sinaloa in Mexico. He captained the team from 1997 until his departure from the club in 2001. He spent the majority of his career with Barcelona, forming a part of Johan Cruyff's Dream Team that won the club's first European Cup in 1992, and four successive Spanish league titles from 1991 to 1994. Guardiola was a defensive midfielder who usually played in a deep-lying playmaker's role.
He is considered one of the greatest managers of all time and holds the records for the most consecutive league games won in La Liga, the Bundesliga and the Premier League. Josep "Pep" Guardiola Sala ( Catalan pronunciation: born 18 January 1971) is a Spanish professional football manager and former player, who is the current manager of Premier League club Manchester City. *Club domestic league appearances and goals
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