That will feel when Josep Guardiola plunge tonight, a little before 20 h 45, the heart of the Camp Nou, the mythical enclosure where he was first a ball boy before shine there as a player and coach? Three years after leaving, the coach of Bayern Munich sign his return to the Catalan setting, in the semi-finals of the Champions League which opposes his training at FC Barcelona, which he defended the colors as medium land between 1990 and 2001 and that from 2008 to 2012 téléguida since sideline, with thirty titles to the key: six as a player and as a coach fourteen, two Champions League titles in 2009 and 2011
<. p> “It’s an incredible feeling to be back here told before meeting the one who made his classes between 1984 and 1990 at the Masia, the Barça academy. I have so many memories. It is a great moment for me. I spent thirty years here, but I’m now coach of Bayern Munich. I came to play a football match. It’s my job . “
96,000 socios carpet in the aisles of the Camp Nou should give a warm welcome to former Spanish international (47 caps and Olympic champion in 1992 in Barcelona …) Born in Sanptedor, village located 80 kilometers from the Catalan capital. I must say that the Blaugrana supporters have partly “Pep” harvest Trophies rounded up by the club for a quarter century. “I’ve always been treated well at home , smiled Bayern coach, who has not paid in the nostalgia of outrageous manner. Now what I want? Dispose Barça! That’s all, nothing more! “
” He spent a lot of time with us and we had the chance to win many titles , assured, during the press conference of ‘pre-game, the Argentine prodigy Lionel Messi, who made the famous tripled (King’s Cup victories, Liga and Champions League) in 2009 with Guardiola. This is a coach who studies everything and leaves nothing to chance. He knows us well, and also, we know what he asks his teams. It’s 50-50. “At Camp Nou, the 44 year-old coach will find eight players facing him (Xavi, Iniesta, Messi, Busquets, Pedro, Mascherano, Pique, Daniel Alves) he once hatched and hoisted up Top of Europe.
On his move to Barça controls, Guardiola pulled prestige and glory. Apostle of a philosophy of game made permanent movements and based on traffic ultrafluide ball “Pep” embodies for socios and observers of African football a petri aesthetic golden age and efficiency. In spring 2012, the forties had chosen to close this divine parenthesis, leaving the image of an orderly and civilized coach, however, able to have face responding to provocations to repeat his Portuguese rival Jose Mourinho, then head of Real Madrid.
First mixed season
Dried it, then the Catalan offers a sabbatical in New York. Since its US retirement he attends the succession crisis Barca, orphaned of his iconic coach and face the cancer of its new guide Tito Vilanova (who died in April 2014). By January 2013, Bayern Munich formalizes his coming for next season. Guardiola then signs a contract for three seasons against a record $ 14 million and annual takes in his luggage his former protégé Barca, Thiago Alcantara. In the summer, he succeeded German and veteran (68 years) Jupp Heynckes, the main architect tripled (Champions League, Bundesliga, German Cup) directed by the Bavarians. His first feat of arms with the Bavarian club not long: a victory (2-2, 5-4 on penalties) in UEFA Super Cup against Londoners Chelsea just taken over by his enemy Mourinho <. / p>
Despite his coronation in the Bundesliga and German Cup, Guardiola knows first mixed season. It preserves a bitter taste of his double setback (1-0 and 4-0 at the Allianz Arena in Munich) against Real Madrid Carlo Ancelotti in the semifinals of the Champions League. The moments of grace and depravity of the Catalan coach during this first season spent in Germany were notably narrated by Spanish journalist Marti Perarnau in his book, Pep Herr (Roca Editorial) truly intimate chronicle in which is reflected the culture shock experienced by the new Bayern coach
Luis Enrique. “” Pep “is the best coach in the world”
sacred again German champions, Guardiola at the Camp Nou in this awkward position. His players bit the dust (3-1) at the quarter-final in Porto before leaving the big game (6-1) return. They were then removed (1-1 on penalties) by Borussia Dortmund, currently ninth in the Bundesliga, in the semifinals of the German Cup. Deprived of his two wingers Arjen Robben and Franck Ribery (not spared by injuries this season), faced with the departure of the historic Bavarian club doctor Hans-Wilhelm Müller-Wohlfahrt, the Catalan technician is able to Barça that seems to have opened a enchanting cycle under the direction of former Blaugrana middle Luis Enrique.
This is the same age as his predecessor, he played for four seasons at his side (1996-2001) and its successor at the head of the reserve of FC Barcelona in 2008. He dreams especially to match his former partner and could, as of this season, signing a resounding tripled.
At the top of La Liga (with 2 points ahead of Real Madrid with three rounds remaining in the season), his phalanx must argue, on May 30, the final of the King’s Cup against Athletic Bilbao in. Led by the vicious trident composed of Neymar, Messi and Luis Suarez, it sent a very strong signal to its European rivals with currying application (3-1 / 2-0) Paris Saint-Germain in the quarterfinals .
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“It s’ was given an appointment in Berlin [June 6 for the final] on the mode of the joke but it will not be possible “, has giggled Luis Enrique citing his complicity with Guardiola . The former Spanish international (62 caps) has also not hesitated to pour into sycophancy: “We do not want to fight” Pep “but one of the best teams in the world. And if I say that “Pep” is the best coach in the world, it is because I think, and not because he’s a friend. I think also always good to my friends … “
Under pressure, especially Guardiola intends not to miss his return to Camp Nou. He can always learn from the lesson given by Bayern from its predecessor in spring 2013, at the same stage of the competition: the Bavarians had won 4-0 in Munich before ridicule Barça 3-0 on home soil. But not sure “Pep” had the desire nor the means to inflict such humiliation to his Catalan brothers.
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