Pep Guardiola

He was born on January 18, 1971 in Santpedor (Barcelona). He started in the children's club of FC Barcelona in 1984. He went through all the categories of the club until making his debut with his first team in the 1990-1991 season, when Johan Cruyff was his coach.

Guardiola played as a midfielder endowed with an exquisite technique and great vision of the game acting as the axis of the team. A great player used to playing at the first touch, he is said to know where the ball is going to pass before the ball hits his feet.

He carried the season 97, 98 a serious knee injury that prevented him from playing football.

His record includes four consecutive league titles (1991-1994), a Spanish Super Cup (1996), a Copa del Rey (1997), a European Cup (1992), a European Super Cup (1993) and a European Cup Winners Cup. (1997). He belonged to the so-called Dream Team, in which he shared alignments with some of the best players in the world in the 1990s: Romario, Laudrup, Zubizarreta, Stoichkov, Koeman, Sergi, De la Pena, Figo, Ronaldo, Vitor Baia or Luis Enrique, among many others.

In 1992 he won the gold medal at the Olympic Games in Barcelona with the Spanish national team. That same year he was awarded the Bravo Trophy for the best young player in Europe. With the absolute Spanish team he played the United States World Cup in 1994. A serious injury conditioned his activity in the 97/98 season, but he was the protagonist in the following, already with Louis Van Gaal as a coach.

After his contract with Barcelona, he played for Brescia, of the Italian First Division of football. He gave positive results in the anti-doping control carried out after the Piacenza-Brescia match (0-1), on October 21, 2001, which was the second he played in the Brescian club. The midfielder reaffirmed his innocence by saying that he makes use of vitamin complexes since he played in Barcelona. In May 2005, he was sentenced by the Court of Brescia (northern Italy) to seven months in prison and 2,000 euros fine for doping. The former footballer of Barcelona, Brescia and Rome, had already been sentenced by sports justice to four months of suspension for consuming nandrolone while playing in the Italian championship.

On June 21, 2007 he was introduced as the new coach of Barcelona B, a subsidiary team of FC Barcelona and with which he was proclaimed champion of the Third Division, achieving the promotion to Second Division B. On May 8, 2008 he was appointed coach of Barcelona for the 2008/2009 season, replacing Frank Rijkaard.

On June 17, 2008, the official presentation was made. In his first season as a coach, he won the Champions League, the Spanish League and the Copa del Rey, making Fútbol Club Barcelona the first Spanish team in history to achieve it. On August 29, 2009 wins the Supercopa de Europa against Shaktar Donestk getting to be the first coach to win with the same team the five titles he disputed in a year.

On December 19, 2009, Barça won the Club World Cup, the only title that the team lacked in its history, and with this one it obtains the sixth title of six that they aspired to in 2009. On January 8, 2010 it was elected best coach of the year 2009 by the International Federation of Football History and Statistics (IFFHS). On May 11, 2011, he won the third league title in his first three seasons, and on May 28, 2011, his second Champions League, the fourth of Barça. On August 17, 2011, he achieved his third consecutive Spanish Super Cup with F. C. Barcelona, after beating Real Madrid. On August 26, 2011, he gets his second European Super Cup, after beating FC Porto, making him the most successful coach in the history of Barcelona until then. On September 8, 2011, he received the Gold Medal of the Generalitat of Catalonia.

On April 27, 2012, shortly after losing to Real Madrid in the League and being eliminated from the Champions League in the semifinals, he announces that he will not remain on the bench of Barça next season. On May 25, 2012, he heads for the last time to Barcelona in the final of the Copa del Rey, winning by 0-3 against Athletic Club.

On January 16, 2013, Bayern Munich announced the signing of Guardiola until June 2016, and on August 30, Bayern won under his direction the European Super Cup against Chelsea in the penalty shootout. On December 19, 2015, Bayern finished the first round as leader of the championship and a day later the club announced that Guardiola would not renew his contract at the end of the season being replaced by Carlo Ancelotti.

In February 2016, Manchester City made official the signing of Pep Guardiola as the new coach of the English team for the 2016/2017 season. The club owned by Sheik Mansour bin Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan issued a statement in which he reported the firm for three seasons.

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