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FA issues guidance to clubs warning players and staff to take 'extreme caution' when commenting on the Middle East conflict... after a ban on the pro-Palestinian phrase 'from the river to the sea' Manchester United are suffering from 'a real divide between the players and the manager', insists Shay Given, as he suggests 'there are a lot of fallouts behind the scenes' He calls Planchart over to the table: “Carles, tomorrow morning get me a video of the 36th minute – the thing you mentioned to me. I want to show the centre-half how better to position himself.” Drinkwater opens up on 2019 arrest for drink-driving and reveals he would 'get with any bird I could' on boozy nights out in London during troubled Chelsea spell Guillem Balague clearly interviewed subjects at length for this book but I found it troublesome his habit of quoting at length ( and apparently verbatim ) long tracts of dialogue that had apparently occured some years before - this worried me as it felt like revisionsism to a certain extent.
No, I hadn’t noticed any of that. Pep is blessed with an almost photographic memory which allows him to remember and analyse everything that has happened in the match. In this he resembles Rafa Nadal, a tennis star capable of recalling every shot and every point of his matches, his level of dominance or the error he or his opponent made and which moment was most significant. And all of this remains with him long after the match is over. Similarly, Guardiola remembers every move: how it developed, what happened, which players got involved and what the consequences were. On the other hand, he pays no attention to stats. Laura Woods says Man United boss Erik ten Hag had her 'living out my worst nightmare' live on TV in awkward touchline moment Perhaps my favourite part of the book is when on top of having learned from being managed by top coaches such as Cruyff, Robson, Van Gaal, Mazzone, and Capello, before taking the job as a coach Guardiola still travels around Argentina to learn a lot from coaching legends Ricardo La Volpe, César Luis Menotti, and of course the fabled meeting with Marcelo Bielsa where he spent 11 hours in Bielsa’s villa and came out of it bringing a book full of notes from cover to cover. My other favourite part of the book is at the very last chapter when Pep talked on Catalan radio in memory of Johan Cruyff that has just recently died, which reveals a lot about Pep’s footballing philosophy that is heavily influenced by Cruyff’s way of thinking. yy Spanish Copa del Rey x 2 (2009, 2012) yy English EFL Cup x 2 (2018, 2019) yy Spanish Supercopa de España x 3 (2009, 2010, 2011) England's Tom Curry accuses South Africa's Bongi Mbonambi of calling him a 'white c***' in the Rugby World Cup semi-final with alleged slur caught on ref's mic
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Player B passes to A, who runs inside off the line and around the mannequin to receive. 2. Player B plays a well-timed forward pass to the left of the poles for A to receive after running through them. CRAIG HOPE: Eddie Howe shows Newcastle have plenty in reserve with sensational win at Man United... as... yy Player A instead passes across to C in front of the mannequins - Player C receives, dribbles past the mannequin and then shoots to try and score. Manny Pacquiao confirms that he is 'working' on a fight with Amir Khan to take place next year... and also hopes to compete at the Paris Olympics Will Ferrell calls Ryan Reynolds a 'dodgy Canadian' as he meets the Hollywood star's Wrexham players, while touring the Welsh side's stadium
years of Mersey mayhem! Mail Sport digs out exclusive images from Liverpool's clashes with Everton as the bitter rivals prepare to face off this weekend The left winger (11) skips through the ground poles, makes a forward run to receive the switch of play and delivers a cross into the penalty area. Player A passes out wide and high up the flank for B to run onto, after a curved run around the pole. PEP GUARDIOLA: BEST QUOTES FROM PLAYERS “I had a unique master. I grew a lot with Pep as a player and learnt a great deal from him. Some managers are superb tacticians, but Pep would also describe the moves you had to make on the pitch and what would happen then. And it did!" (Lionel Messi) “He is a genius who reads the game and covers every situation imaginable. He is always showing us how to create space and find solutions and there is no manager like him, which makes him probably the best in the world." (Ilkay Gündoğan) “There is one thing you can be sure of — he wants to dominate. People associate his teams with the number of goals they score but his teams also don’t concede a lot. He always wants to be on the front foot, having the ball, possession, and he wants to dominate." (Thierry Henry) “I have learned a lot from Pep. He’s a genius. I can learn more from him in an hour than from others in one year. He not only lifts you to the next level on the pitch, but also in your mind. He has revealed totally new options to me. I did not know that was possible when I got to Munich. He found a new position for me." (Douglas Costa) “He is an incredible coach on a completely different level in terms of tactics. He really helps players develop and he even helped me improve at the age of 30." (Phillip Lahm) The book also illustrate the difficulties of managing star players and their inflated egos, especially when there are more than 1 star competing for the same spots, as well as the difficulties of transferring Pep’s philosophy onto several rigid or entitled players. And it also portrays a vivid picture of the pressure that football managers constantly receive from the fans, the club hierarchies, and the media.Micah Richards reveals how he downed TEN drinks from a minibar the night before a Man City game - and tried to talk his way out of playing SIMON JORDAN: In a modern game populated by nation states and billionaires, there should always be a place for people like Blue Bill
Excluding own goals, Wolves have scored 12 Premier League goals this season and either Hwang Hee-chan or Pedro Neto has assisted or scored it. Description 1. Player A passes into centre for B to run onto. 2. Player B passes high up the flank for C's forward run. 3. Player C receives and dribbles forward. Mikel Arteta accepts he is to blame for Arsenal's painful Carabao Cup exit at West Ham asstrikes from Kudus... Source: Pep Guardiola's Manchester City preseason training session at NRG Stadium, Houston, Texas, USA - 20th July 2017 That is why I would say that not only is this one of the best sports biographies I have read, but it is an absolutely brilliant biography full-stop.The players have 3 minutes of activation and 3 minutes stretching before performing 3 repetitions of this warm-up circuit.
Player C passes wide and high up the flank for A's long curved run around the mannequin. Source: Pep Guardiola's training sessions from Barcelona B team (2007-08) While the football stories are fantastic, I actually learn a lot more from the way Guardiola conduct himself. From his discipline, intellect, and respect for others, to the way he carry himself in many different situations, to how he meticulously planning ahead of the opportunities and risks, how he revamp the club to embody his footballing philosophy (even arranging different lunch seating all the time to ensure no small groups formed within the squad), down to practicing the small specific moves after analysing the opponent and/or the situation. Lessons that can be implemented in many other areas of life. While I was reading the book, Pep - at last - announced that he is coming to England. Now we know he will coach Manchester City FC next season and carry that club's hopes and dreams but what is most important is that he will bring his idiosyncratic "tiki-taka" playing style to a country caught in what I would say is a footballing crisis.
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I was a great admirer of the Barcelona team of 2008-2012 and what they achieved under Pep Guardiola's leadership and I was interested to gain some insight from this book as to what went on behoind the scenes to deliver such a dominant force over that period. Source: Pep Guardiola's Manchester City training session at Etihad Campus Training Ground, Manchester - 22nd September 2017 Former Canadian tennis star Eugenie Bouchard joined by friends to show off incredible physique in lacey catwoman outfit for Halloween What I love most is those who claim that you couldn't play like this in Germany or the Premier League, with Silva, Bernardo, Agüero, all of whom are 5 foot tall. But we've done it. By receiving few goals and dominating the game through positional play." Source: Pep Guardiola's Bayern Munich training session at Säbener Strasse Training Ground, Munich - 13th November 2014
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