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Index
• Coach’s Role
• ‘False 9’
• Pep Guardiola’s favorite coaches
• Marcelo Bielsa
• Pep Guardiola's Manchester City Game
• Match Preparation
• Play with the ball
• Win
• Football Statistics
Coach’s Role
• The coach’s role is to make sure that the idea is a
collaborative one, that everyone feels it,
enhancing each one’s skills through the game, so
that they can understand each other and fluidly.
‘False 9’
• I have long established a scheme where the team
doesn’t have the Striker in the box.
• There are matches where I need a typical Striker:
when the opponents are very tight and we must
strike from the outside. But in many matches I don’t
like a typical Striker, expecting him to be the crosses’
target. That doesn’t thrill me.
• I like to generate some ball movements, so that we
can run into certain gaps. But every club must have a
typical Striker with a special goal-scoring ability.
Pep Guardiola’s favorite coaches
• I like the coaches who say: “I’ll do that to you”. I have fewer
weapons than you, but I will do play. I like the daring, brave
ones, those who think about the supporters, those who score a
goal and try to score a second one. I like those who exert high
pressure or those who make effective movements. We can see
when there is work behind a team, either in attack or defense.
• I like to see movements, for example building up from the back
with long balls and I say, “well done!”. There is a purpose in what
they want to do. I like to see things that have come out of the
coach’s head and have been passed on to the players to operate. I
lack the time for the number of things I must accomplish with
the team that I don’t do and don’t reach, as well as having the
time to watch other stuff.
Marcelo Bielsa
• When you play against Marcelo Bielsa’s teams,
you must do things that during the whole year
you never have to do. You must adapt your way
of attacking and defending twice during the
year, which is when you play with him.
• The way he trains and plays leads to huge
physical and emotional wear and tear. Sustaining
this over time requires a great capacity for
leadership, insistence, and persistence.
Pep Guardiola's Manchester City Game
• In our way of understanding the game, the pass from the Goalkeeper to the
Center Back or from the Center Back to the Full-Back or Center Midfielder is
the entire foundation of our game. If this starts badly, everything ends
poorly, or better said: it doesn’t progress. This process must be felt and seen
by the players. And, when they see it, they say: “that’s right, I have more
time, I have more decisiveness, I have more possibilities”.
• How to practice this game? By playing! I don’t understand any other way
to improve playing football than by playing! When we play, we must make
decisions continuously, in real time.
• How to practice? By playing! We must generate plays and, the more
situations we play, the more decisions we must make about controlling,
receiving the ball, when to play with a single touch or more, when to drive
the ball forward (this depends on the opponent, and then there are the
actions of our teammates and the other opponents). This continuous
decision-making is what makes us learn how to play football.
Match Preparation
• I’m afraid of losing before I play the match. That makes
me work and prepare the game in the best way possible.
• With videos, we can stop the footage and this is good for
conveying the game idea to our players.
• I adapt to the players I have, when they are playing they
tell me a lot about what I must do. I “listen” to them, I
“see” them! Always according to the opposing team,
which attacks and defends us differently, because that
“tells” us where the space to attack and defend is.
Play with the ball
• The players have decided to be footballers because of the ball, so I try to
give them guidelines to at least play with the ball and pass it.
• Coaches who want to play without the ball: that pains me and I admire
them deeply, because I can’t do it. I admire those who tell their players to
stay back for 80 minutes waiting for an attacking action, trying to steal the
ball, and run to the counterattack, or to wait for a Set Piece to win. And
they manage to win! Perfect. They managed to convince their players to
do that.
• I can’t tell my players that they are worse than the others. And no one is
worse than the other! Players are not worse because they are cheaper! I
can’t tell my players to defend at the back because the others are better. I
tell them to do things for themselves, try to get out playing here or there,
and try to win. There are coaches who can do that and have that resilience,
to hold on for a long time only to win in one action. But I can’t do it, I
don’t know how!
Win
• Professional football is a business where you must
win. And, if I’m here, it’s because I have won. We
can’t ask for time in football, we must win
immediately! There are no projects, the project is to
win! It’s a capitalist and competitive world, you need
performance and results.
• What you did before helps you to land a job, but to
keep it you must win “tomorrow”. Whoever loses is
out.
• Defeat is tough. Defeat lasts longer than victory! And
I believe it should be that way.
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Football Statistics
• I’m not a fan of statistics, but of goals. For
example, there are players who make a lot of
passes, but how are the passes? Good or bad?
Do the passes break lines and generate
situations? A goal doesn’t have two
interpretations: either you put the ball into the
net or you don’t!
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