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Matías Manna

Paradigma Guardiola

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 Foreword
FOREWORD

Perhaps the most brilliant victory for the first time

Guardiola as coach of FC Barcelona is their way of being
defeated. Each time it happened, and they were few, his
team remained faithful to the expected line of attack and
ball possession. To beat him, you had to deny the game.
All opposing players locked in their own field, becoming
epic destruction game Barcelona, ​resistance to their
attacks. One, two, three defensive lines, where front
insignes, whether Chelsea or Inter or Real Madrid, were
transformed into brave defenders, rolled up, bailing a
flood of game against them. engrandecía thus lose the
bet. Victories, mostly in late rotundas, deceived the eye
the viewer, the perceived easy, effortless, an
overwhelming superiority procedures. That's why it was
so important to lose: the difficulty of portraying the glory,
became inspiring loyalty to shape an aesthetic. In a sport
where the dictatorship of the result makes almost all
opportunists, traitors, incoherent, populist ... that
Barcelona stood like a romantic monument, where
sentimental statement preceding the assault is preserved
throughout lance for adverse whatever.

Years before everything happened, one day, in a modern

Palermo (Buenos Aires) - where I booked two rooms for a
trip that combined pleasure and work, the quiet
conversation and documentary- research, Pep Guardiola
warned me a boy who wrote to him

long mails and it was unrepentant supporter

of his playing career, and at sunset, come to breakfast
with us. If it's heavy, we hidden gestures to get out with
some fictional hurry, we said to agree.

The fan came from Rosario, full of gift books, not knowing
what I would find, wanting to talk and Guardiola surprised
when asked if he would have possibilities to train or play
in Argentina. The young man and brought a university in
tow found he was walking like obsessive hobbies are
based on the net today. He had named one argentinísimo

Paradigma Guardiola, and he was convinced that behind

that central player in the system Cruyff or Van Gaal, the
soul of a coach was hiding. There were two of those who
thought sitting at the same breakfast table this small hotel
in Palermo.

Then things began to happen, and stolen by Matías

Manna to television broadcasts of Barcelona Third planes
were feeding the hungry eyes of good football,
the rheumy eyes of both business facilón, popular but
cheap, where he was treated ball anyway, because what
mattered was winning, not how or why. And the paradigm
- that much more humbly call effort and hours of study,
analysis rival and management of human talent (and
superhuman times) because your charge- was rising from
division to division, to the division of the larger, those who
already compete only in memory. A Barcelona that Matías
Manna came forward to look, since in the front row, with
the eyes of a stubborn and obsessive child from his small
town, San Vicente, or from the city of Rosario, not too far
from the corner where the Black Fontanarrosa sat
watching the girls go and where I sat down one day to see
those same girls (and prove that everything that was said
about them, the rosarinas, was true). I hate prologues and
epilogues almost as much, but if ever something or
someone was near
resemble a prologue in all this that we live and we
enjoyed during our magical seasons of football Barcelona
Guardiola was Matías Manna at that breakfast table a
small hotel in Palermo. When everything was about to
begin. He
he called Paradigma Guardiola.
Each of you call it as they see fit. Sincerely, David Trueba
 Introduction
INTRODUCTION

Although he had earlier, from January 2006 blog stably

emerged. Josep Guardiola was about to start his last
period as a footballer in Mexico after two years in the Al
Ahly of Qatar. "Paradigma Guardiola: thinking model and
set of footballing convictions Josep Guardiola, the
Catalan midfielder, heir to the philosophy of Cruyff,
representative of the Dutch school and offensive
Barcelona" was the first thing I wrote. A little more than
six years later, and with the recent news on untying
Guardiola as first team coach of Barcelona, ​it is a good
opportunity to pick up some concepts and verify the
greatness of this
equipment. The continuity of parties, usually two a week,
could do anything we missed. Faced with so much
adrenaline parties and dates, is a bit of calm and
relaxation. Exhibiting feelings and deepen the game
developed by the team led by Guardiola during his four
years in the first team of Barcelona is one of the
objectives of this initiative. After a compilation and
selection of articles written over the years, the reader will
find some analysis that can give

place evolutions, flashpoints and fundamental

arguments of the call Pep Team.

As soon as Guardiola announced he was leaving the club

in his time as a player (April 2001), Johan Cruyff said:
"Although the Dream Team ended long ago, I, when I saw
Pep playing, I thought there was still something. " Faced
with such a statement, it seemed fair to create a platform
to demand a specific way
football feeling. Almost everything that passed me videos
of Ajax with Cruyff as a player, from his Holland in 1974
or the magnificent 29 September 1993 (the day 4 to 1
against Dynamo Kiev, exemplary party Dream Team with
Pep as a player), he was extinct. I did not see it. Since
the early nineties began to be televised matches in the
Spanish league from Argentina, I too fond with Barcelona
and his game. My mother, an English teacher, traveled to
Europe only once a training course

1993. During that stay, and walking down a street in

Madrid, a seller of football shirts, said, "Take this lady,
with Barca. Play better. " I appreciate the good taste of
man. Perhaps that gift potentiated even more, my desire
to look at that magnificent team. I was slowly advancing
in learning more. At the end of that decade, my father did
not hesitate to incorporate the Internet as santafesino
came to my little town, San Vicente. There I discovered
that the
team had admired a midfielder with mentions,
arguments Y attitudes what

they completed all The equation. both

Catalan newspaper archives and newspapers, I felt like
nobody Pep defended a group of ideas, which, in the
distance, he shared. Monitoring also framed my deep
knowledge or relationships leaping from the footballing
bubble. Midfield position at the Camp Nou, already had
skills coach. Meanwhile, I, as a midfielder, in a small club
of my people, trying to imitate Pep. I could rarely do.
Although what I drew attention was his way of feeling and
expressing the game. The impossibility of seeing it as a
player in my country, a desire truncated, long before he
became coach. "Coach already are," Jorge Valdano said
in an interview, while the first was culminated Van Gaal at
Barcelona and Pep was captain of that team.
Today the style of play the team that expressed the club
is present in every conversation or analysis of a game.
Guardiola is neither more nor less than a person who
represents a model institution on many issues. Why he
was the blog and prepared similar name. He does not talk
about his private life, talks about the game and how it
feels, training and practice Guardiola. "My challenge is
that the idea that feel so transmit it to my wardrobe. You
win with many styles, there are no magic formulas. The
solution is to do what you feel, "were his first words on
the first team this June 17, 2008.

Perhaps the blog has already migrated to other targets.

Today is already known depth that style and those
footballing beliefs. Therefore, we have done analysis of
rivals Barcelona's turn and we stopped in other areas.
Perhaps this work will serve as a final farewell Paradigma
Guardiola
as a means of
communication, display only, their thoughts and ideas.
Yes, it will remain, and as a platform for study and
analysis will either return to the sources.

Founded no profit objective and with only the need to

issue feelings and ideas I liked, the media continued and
continues on the same line. Surprise, six years after its
creation, is that the flow of information is known and that
thousands and thousands of users enjoy their content, as
we all enjoyed this game when you play with incalculable
respect for the public. When the archer passes defender,
midfielder and the ball ends up in the offensive zone, no
turning back. The public will be trapped. When it is
attacking so much and so well, taking initiatives and
creating superiorities in all lines with high-speed passes,
no turning back. Thanks for keeping intact forever and
convictions to implement them, and give them to readjust
those who are passionate about this discipline.
 FROM THE FIELD AND CENTER OF
SUPERIORITY

From midfield and

superiority

Dear Guardiola: Is it urgent?

(Post in March 2007. Public Letter to Josep Guardiola
prompting to take control of a football team).
In The Guardian I found a great article by David Winner
who spoke on the second match between Arsenal and
PSV. He said that Londoners accounted for over the
inheritance of the glorious vision of Cruyff in Dutch
football champions themselves.

What a paradox. In the land of Rinus Michels, the

champion does not play with his legacy. In fact, there was
a change of roles in that game because Arsenal was the
team that had the ball, it always rolled and attacked freely.
He team
Dutch, however, strongly defended. English was more
like Total Football, and Dutch, more like the English spirit.
Today is hard to see teams representing the legacy of
sort through ball to rotate position and do it consistently,
they attack and defend with that concept, that create
numerous scoring chances roll, causing one off side rival
to five meters
midfield line, which valued the three areas of the field to
attack, other players in opponent field from the first
minute ...

In the country where he was born all this, where they are
used differently spaces field, it looks less and less. Thank
you, just a little, AZ Van Gaal, offensive but not constant
in their presentations. Moreover, some say that at Ajax
(instead of gestation of the last revolution in football)
questioned the 4-3-3 system and the game ajacied
tradition appears only in eyedropper.

Moreover, the PSV should not be champion again

because speculates seems odd considering the bank
Koeman (alleged son of the Cruyff philosophy), but it's
true. Do not use ends, wins games for any individual
genius of Kone, Farfan or Afellay. We only know that
Koeman directed by Alex center. In addition, nobody in the
World takes the ball as Brazil, it is the most Koeman of
everyone in the world boasts power, placement and
beginning of all attacks.

Until the Dutch national team seems not to respect some

characteristics: Van Basten played with three up, but his
play in the World Cup was bad. Almost a bread Cruyff
ended for the palate. The only one who knows what is
playing Barca. While respecting this certain way to play,
but the decline continues. Playing a 3-4-3 (at least we
came to see that big number, thanks, Rijkaard), but
without depth at the ends, playing with Thuram free
center to get the ball (I think even tries), with a defense
and midfield, with Iniesta and Xavi running to get balls to
Valdes ... it's hard to be satisfied.

Jorge Valdano help me with this thought: "The day is not

there some other crazy Cruyff giving
turns out there is called Guardiola and who will listen
because you have the philosopher's stone in his pocket. "

And there are reasons to spare and would have to break the
ethic of respect Pep processes to train (very worthy and
remarkable, by the way) professional level. I imagine Cruyff
very uncomfortable in front of the TV watching football. Dear
Pep, only one question: Is it urgent?

Spain, the Netherlands and Guardiola

(Post in July 2010 before the final between Spain and

Holland in the World Cup).

Legend has it that Valenti Guardiola was reading a

newspaper while waiting for the birth of his son Josep. On
the eighteenth day of 1971, the newspaper contemplated
that Barcelona had defeated Celta by 1 to 0, remained
reclusive leader, but the 40,000 people in the
Camp Nou were dissatisfied with the team's play. In turn,
the international football marked a defeat of Ajax 1: 0
against
MVV Maastricht. With this, Rinus Michels was starting to
get clearer his departure from the Dutch side. Months
later he would go direct to Barcelona leaving Amsterdam
a work already begun:
the genesis of Ajax
He revolutionized world football.

World Cup final 2010 shows the persistence in a

particular way to understand the game. "There is no
better medal than being acclaimed for your style '' said
Cruyff-, and it was Spain, copy of Barcelona, to South
Africa. "In Holland I'm sorry, they play like one taught
him," Guardiola had written years ago. Today, the country
where soccer renewal hand Michels -selection always
showed that school- determinants concepts emerged,
wins his game as did their rivals before:
your game is strong, but not brilliant, as was the 74 other
Holland oranges luxurious. " Football is not complete
without victory "Sighs a TV ad
the actual selection
Dutch showing his new ideology. Above the style and the
legacy of Total Football, calls to win over other aspects.
"No one has played Cruyff Guardiola 'Ramón Besa- He
holds no one from birth could capture as much teaching
on a paradigm of play. Guardiola was on his way player
because he was Dutch and coach because he was taught
to understand the game from that perspective.

Valenti did not imagine that what I was reading would

influence both the life of his new son, but he did so on
Sunday we will see a selection
play a final of a World
interpreting the pattern of thought loved by his son, who
makes three to four years
trains daily to several of those players. "Spain, copy Barca
is the best advertisement of football. And proof that
playing well, wanting to please, attacking football betting,
you have more chances to win than speculating, "another
statement Cruyff used to be closing this article.

As much as the brilliant Simon Kuper hold that the team

led by Bert van Marwijk continues to have a "tactical
intelligence Dutch: combination of technical skill and
space management" and although they managed to get
sequences longer passes than anyone in the world
(except Spain, of course), and have a good game position
or a high rate of ball. therefore no longer pass the
midfield, no longer pressed up, no longer come from
below with persistence not attack as before.

All this makes Spain: possession reminiscent of the best

of all time Orange and name
It is carrying one of the main concepts of this medium: 74
possession.

So that European winter of 1971 will not go unnoticed in

football history as the first encounters between a nascent
philosophy and a man who today carried out, although
there were the trouble, fashion, what easy and most of
his colleagues dictate otherwise. Although the World
owes a trophy to oranges,

membership concepts
footballing paradigm that takes place in your game all the
Spanish players should make twist the mandate.

Loyalty to an idea that the ball will be more red than

orange. A) Yes, have more
chances of winning the title.

Decalogue of common errors

(Post in November 2011).

The following is a text that exposes common errors in

eleven sets that aim to interpret the game model framed
in this medium.

1) The system requires no player is more important than

the team creates and you should always prioritize the
collective game. Decisions of all players must be subject
to a common goal. Movements should benefit each other.

2) For more than your opponent is closed, you should

always try to play with two lines: media and forwards.
Between them there must be between 10 and 15 meters
away and not all in one single line. It is the desperation to
be in the area: if there are many people ahead of the line
of the ball, no construction.

3) End up fast the played. Is the

desperation to finish sooner plays: there is less control
over the game, a team stretched, separate lines and
intrusive positions.

4) Scarce ball pace. The aim is to create spaces to break

defenses and not make a rondo nonsense. Every pass,
every movement, must have a sense. If you finish the
play, though not in a goal, there is no chance to surprise
opponent against. If you finish the move and compel
them or take caretaking or band and you reorganize
without you. If again and again looking for the rondo
rondo by more sooner or later one will commit a fault.
And if this is in the danger zone, all running and
disadvantage. Risk passes should always be made up
near the counter and never the own goal.

5) Touches and passes. The system requires touches to

keep possession, but certainly, if not
It is accompanied by passes no breaks. Passes must
overcome rival lines.

6) Central jam. Is the lack of amplitude, narrow the field,

abuse of wanting too much down the middle, making it
even smaller and overpopulated field.

7) Cluttered equipment. Always try to contain an order

through the possession of the ball. Pep once said
"without much tactical work." The ball commands us.

8) Possession to submit, not to be subjected. The ball

possession is a phenomenon constructed because
is possession intended
destabilize the contrary, eliminate rivals, defensive balance
condition forcing him to play at the mercy of it, and not the
opponent you want.

9) Loss recovery work. The team, when you lose the ball,
you must be together so you can press after losing and
very
difficult to make a counter. In short, the attack affects our
way of defending and of cause and consequence,
contrary conditions the game.

10) Defender far behind. It is a common mistake of many

teams who want to play in this style:
risk has to wait behind,
back near your goal, to defend in advanced lines.

eleven) Throw long balls as the start of the game. It is

essential that the superiorities leave building from behind,
from the front line; Therefore, it is a fundamental principle
of their game idea: that the ball comes out clean from the
defenders.

Xavi plays circuncentro

(Post in January 2012).

No one can determine exactly what plays

Xavi. Perhaps because, at the time, many shouted in
midfield could only strong physical, technical
desjerarquizando for players pass or 1.70. Edmilson once
or Van Bommel was used instead of Xavi or the
long-suffering Emerson-Tommasi rather than Guardiola.
At those moments,
wistfully, Xavi
He recalled: "The whole game is based on triangles.
Cruyff had implemented this. " Luckily, they can now see.
Each player Guardiola find a triangle and have at least
two passing options. But football triangles we can add a
concept from the geometry.

Thus, there is a point called the circumcenter. The

circumcenter is the center of the circle passing through the
three vertices of a triangle. In the Barca game, Xavi is
always the circuncentro. A geometric point of support that
continues to create superiority in the different lines.
The triangles are basic to advance in the game of
position. If the opponent does break, you break
intentions. Xavi, in the past, again claiming: "That's Can
Barca: triangles, Rondos, conservations
Those endless ball ...
concepts taught us Joan Vilà. They are exercises that we
do not in the first team because there are players who
have not grown up here. Not the same as a rondo with
Oleguer, Iniesta or me with the Brazilians, who tread the
ball. With us, or you see the ball. " As always, Cruyff
clarifies: "The system is based on all players form a
triangle with two others, are in the position they are and
always a triangle, so that should feel pressured when
rolling a ball , the player will have it easier to hold him. A
vertical and horizontally symmetrical system in which
there are two key parts: the 4-or what we now call pivote-
and 10 -OLO that mediapunta- call. Hence the
ability to maintain the position is so important in the club
scheme: a disoriented player will break the triangle and
complicate the lives of their nearest and all the team
'peers.

Dutch School takes him blood. His football was born in

triangles. Danny Blind said workouts Van Gaal Ajax were
based on movements to form triangles "Triangles all over
the field. Each player was a vertex and must have two
passing options. It was the key. Both Cruyff and Van
Gaal. It was the best way to play and be securely locked
when we were losing the ball. If you lost, there was
always someone behind the ball because the triangles
helped you to keep the position. "

"If there is mathematically more triangles on your system,

it becomes easier because players without thinking, are
already in place. He
field will not be as big and always will be more spaces.
Therefore, the other systems are not as good for the
circulation of the ball, "says Van Gaal.

Xavi is the pass claim. With him on the field, more

cooperation, and the same happens with the triangles are
drawn more thanks to Terrassa.

If football is to create triangles, there is Xavi situated as

circuncentro.

Dear Guardiola: Yes, it was urgent

(Post in April 2009. Second Josep Guardiola public letter
in reply to the first written letter in early 2007).

While published an article "Dear Guardiola: Will urgent"

where we affirmed the urgency to start with Pep function
as a football coach. not yet coached Barca B, he had only
recently won the title and the argument of urgency was
related to Cruyff's legacy in football was diluted and there
was no team in the world to represent him. Currently,
Guardiola's Barcelona evokes the legacy of Cruyff.

"The four goals scored by Bayern came after collective

plays, with different records, a fact which defines the
football Barcelona. Guardiola has assembled a team that,
in football, is the synthesis of the best club teams.
Guardiola was inspired by Cruyff Barca while it has taken
into account the evolution of Barcelona Frank Rijkaard.
To the

Dream Team She handed him often with outbursts of

talent of his players to win games. And the last champion
is remembered especially the figure of Ronaldinho.
Guardiola's team, however, is more coral and solidarity,
also more balanced and, above all, plays football on an
ongoing basis, to the extent that the extraordinary has
become routine, and is applauded in most fields. Still
being virtuous and elegant, decorated or not delight in the
play, but precisely defined and corrected over time, "says
Ramon Besa. "We have probably seen the best first part
of the history of the club," said Barcelona president while
Beckenbauer, of Munich, had nothing to say. No wonder
Cruyff feel a happy man today, despite not being world
champion, while Beckenbauer does not know what to
expect.

Thus, the team of Pep represents more than anybody the

inheritance of the glorious vision of Cruyff in football.

"It is a great score, especially because it tells us what is

the way: solidarity, the work of all the effort and talent,"
said Josep
Guardiola.

"Guardiola is fundamental for us," added Xavi. "We

spread their enthusiasm and has gotten us to function as
a team. Everything is easier and simpler if you run five or
ten meters to help the partner. "

It should also add a quote from Guardiola on Messi, Eto'o

and Henry: "His talent makes the difference, but the key
is road we have traveled in their effort: that's the key to
our history. They know that making the effort to make the
team put very high ". He explained further: "If the top
three did not make that work, we could not play how we
play. Thanks to them, we can advance the team and
although we 40 meters to the back of the defense, we
feel comfortable. Then comes the talent. "

Guardiola, the key factor in the overwhelming victory of

his team was "having the
ball and run it right, because to run, we Germans always
win. " "But the opponent has arrived very little and that's
good news for us," he added, noting especially "the
efforts of all the players, which is what excites me. This is
the way, the best thing we can teach people. "

The best year of Pep Guardiola

(Post in May 2011. Regarding the third consecutive
league title).

The title refers to the foreword by David Trueba in the

only book by Josep Guardiola -through the idea of ​Martin
and Luis Miguel Rico, when Paradigma Guardiola

He began to be born and when Pep did not imagine

coaching the first team of Barcelona. Eleven years later,
in his third season as coach, the club is champion again.
As always, we highlight what is the way to achieve this
title and is what will persist in memory. "This season was
the best at football," declared Guardiola.

This year the team was more symmetrical: Abidal,

Maxwell and Adriano tried desnivelar, get (not be) and
surprise as much as Alves, but the Brazilian is always
pillar in the game,
protrudes. Extreme movements marked an evolution. In
some games, the sides were open and deep, these
movements were to play in the middle. In addition,
possession continued to set high percentages and
position players improved the game. On the other hand,
Messi was placed much closer to the area, being top
scorer and game generator, throwing the middle. Above
all, the playing out was immutable.

More teams were encouraged to press it up,

but, just as Valdes passed it on many occasions to turn
and so central superiorities were created from the
beginning. It was the same paradigm to rivals who knew
much more his concepts. It was the same paradigm with
players who came to be champions at the World Cup. It
was the same paradigm to a rival reinforced in the best
way.
Players
unrepeatable and a team that defends a game idea and
model of club power 30 years ago, made the best
season
Guardiola. The best year coach Pep Guardiola.

What remains in the memory is the style

(Post in January 2010. First elimination of Barcelona
against Sevilla in the Copa del Rey of that year).

Jose Samano won us a hand. We were not going to be able

to write so bright lines. At least the
complemented with video. In a highly anticipated match
hereby also we declare (as Sámano) Pep guilty;
the same
guilt enact various media not to include some regular
starters on the team. With this elimination, the creator of
the medium can not see a team match at the Camp Nou
Guardiola during his trip. But again, we demand the
paradigm. All concepts as expressed in the special
multimedia. "There are teams whose eternity is above a
defeat." Guardiola is guilty, of course, the team dropped
the ball with the foot, in the trenches of the adversary,
against an epic goalkeeper, without the slightest
renunciation of such celestial style that even his
opponents admire him. "This is the

guardiolato, great for the club. Blessed

guilty. If all fail so ... ".

After all, we no longer remember if your computer passed

or failed round. And I can watch his team in Valladolid or
Gijon. Does not matter.
The writer Osvaldo Soriano said, "Over time, what
remains is the style: the articles of Roberto Arlt and
Rodolfo Walsh had that, and even today are read with
pleasure." It is an immense pleasure to see that that style,
which we described long before many titles, long before
Pep draw his book coach, I can see forever. Over time,
we will forget the glasses, lost and won, will be the
paradigm Guardiola.

Guardiola and vindicate the identity paradigm

Barca
(Post in April 2008 regarding the rumors were tracking
future Guardiola as first team coach).

"Even though that him Dream Team ended long ago, I,

when I saw Pep playing, I thought there was still
something. Now it's over the Dream
Team. The winner brilliant past and Barca has ended. "
Those were the words he chose Johan Cruyff in the
parting of Pep Guardiola as first team player.

Now, Pep has returned to the club. The spirit of

Dream Team still in force, since Cruyff's legacy and style
are exhibited at Barca B much more than in the first team.
Amid speculation that mark near Guardiola become the
new first team coach, former Dutch coach says: "He has
amply demonstrated to have much ability to be first team
coach." "Pep knows, and is ready, so can be a coach."

"It was a player who played and played the position well
and knows what training and how they can think players."
It is clear. Cruyff will see that spirit that he likes so much
the first team if Guardiola becomes coach. Mr. Cruyff, the
brilliant past and winner of Barca's back.

Felicitats!

Iniesta and Guardiola's legacy

(Post in January 2008. missing several months for the
same Guardiola Andrew began training the first team).

The following are statements about the player manchego

Guardiola:

"Iniesta is a fine player, he is of those who prioritize more

thinking than running. His first motion control is wonderful.
It gives continuity and speed
game. interprets game.
Surely elsewhere, there will be players in this style, but there
are not interested, do not seek them. "
"I thought it was good, but not both. You can play as a
midfielder, a little more advanced and even left end.
Being so good, sometimes it assumes the role of
secondary. It is a great model for the youth and future
generations. Also no dyed hair, not wearing earrings or
tape. Only gives you game. Is a crack ". "They follow the
path of behavior forever. Surely, it will grow as a player, it
is inevitable. I hope you have a good time in the field:
that's the way to move on so well we. "

Meanwhile, Iniesta says: "A Pep admired him not only as

a player but also for what he did off the field."

"Guardiola has always been a mirror in which noticing,"

says Iniesta in an interview with Barca TV and the club
website. The current 8 Barça remembers how he hit the
words Guardiola gave him after winning the Cadets
Nike Premier Club Barcelona in 1999. Iniesta, who was then
15 years old, picked up the Cup hands noi of Santpedor, whi
at that time was the captain of the first team, "Pep told me
that in a few years, he'd be watching me play me on the
podium. And, luckily, and has ended up being "recalls
Iniesta.

Iniesta is real product of Barca's youth. Cruyff's legacy,

exhibited the characteristics of Pep, is evident in Iniesta
and there is an anecdote that account. Last year, after
learning that his team would play with 3-4-

3 Iniesta sent an SMS brother Guardiola saying: "Today

plays Dream Team. Game".

The 3-4-3 is possible

(Post in October 2010).

"Depending on how the share otherwise, we change our

ways to attack. Each
match is different, "Guardiola gave an answer to Luis
Martin in the few questions related to the game Pep
conferences.

The reappearance of 3-4-3 (Pep used it in a few games

since being in the first team) is part of the constant search
for open spaces and overcome the defensive barriers.

"It has always been difficult to attack a team that meets in

two lines of 10 or similar issues. It was difficult 50 years
ago, what is now and will be in the next 50 years,
"Guardiola another clear intervention shows that" two
years ago were a surprise. The teams tried to quit playing
and recuperated the ball close to your area. Now it's
impossible. Except Valencia, most of the last 30 teams
we played against give us the ball. They do not want. The
doorman is not passed to the defense, but the strip. "
This is how the 3-4-3. Before two rival strikers, to
pressure at the exit-and Busquets as extreme flyers 4-4-2
formation that almost most teams have against
Barcelona- arises this alternative. Surely, it will take more
preparation time for players to refine it more, but the
figure can attack yesterday the team better. To that plays
the paradigm.

View another case of 3-4-3 in Spanish Liga: Almeria Juan

Manuel Lillo.

Busquets and midfielder intelligence

(Post in September 2010).

Busquets resembles the first Guardiola, Pep appearing at

the team of Cruyff. Guardiola says that thanks to Cruyff
and Rexach was, he could be a footballer, and maybe
another coach had not taken into account. The same
situation
It happens between Sergio and coach Pep. The
difference between the midfielders is that some ask for
the ball to feel important and ask others to do important
to their peers. Busquets makes the latter because he
understands his role, the game plan asks that; otherwise,
lentificaría the game like many midfielders.

The relationship between Busquets and Guardiola began in

2007. Busi, injured at the beginning, the first stage of Pep in
Barcelona B. recently, he missed the October 28, 2007,
compared to Banyoles, Sergi made his debut entering
inside Dimas law and in the supplement. His team won 3-2
with a goal from Busquets.

The first title awarded Pep Busquets placed him as

center, on November 11, 2007, compared with Cassa. To
his right Pedrito, and Eneko he started today in Sabadell,
at the other end.
Luis Martin, in The country, built parts
Conceptual regarding the midfielder. In an interview with
Sergio, he wrote: "I enjoy, really, watching what goes side
to give you coverage if the internal pressure reaches or
not ... I spend the game thinking and calculating how many
are left, how many to right ... At the back, the midfield
game is to be very logical. What does the situation
require? That's what I'm doing. There are not many more
questions. It is a position that must be concentrated 90
minutes. A defensive level, my game is pure consistency
is very simple. "

"Questions for Sergio Busquets to teammates, coaches

and players and the most common adjective in the answers
is intelligent. Nobody plays better today the difficult simplicity
of midfield, "adds Luis Martin. At the same time,

takes the following words

coaches and players:
Johan Cruyff: "It is always close to where the ball falls for
his good sense of positional play and when things get
complicated for back instead of back, pressing on the ball.
Does what others do not. Have peace of mind, your
technique is adequate and effective, the speed of his
passes is appropriate. Help and passes. When many
media on a computer, the difference between being good
or bad location is one meter and he is always on site.

Del Bosque: "I never played for him, but for others; always
choose thinking about the team. For a coach is a gift, because
it does not need to explain anything, just tell him where he will
play and he does what he has to do, always. He sacrifices
himself for everyone, gives us a huge defensive balance and is
an exceptional kid, good people, healthy, never complains
about anything. "

Guardiola: "Busi makes the team play from a position where

football should be very simple. It must
think about what is happening in himself,
solve what messes and
offset what is before them. And that gives us balance. It
has all the qualities required who plays in this place. "

Xavi: "It is fundamental to the midfield, and I tell you that I

play near it. See you soon, always plays the easiest
option, first,
pim, pam ... Reads the game perfectly between the lines and has a
precise pass. "

Piqué: "Tactically is amazing, sees the need for the

equipment before anyone and is always where it should
be. It is never distracted, not risk, always solve easily the
most difficult situation because in addition to his position
game is technically superb. "

Smart Busquets says: "I feel that I play in a position that

requires a generous and very showy work, but I like it. It's
my job and I like it. I'd rather cut off 10 balls, stealing
between the lines, that
throw three walls. I do not care to bite the ball out to
sweep the area, because I'm for that, to facilitate the work
of others. I try. My position requires being smart, think
fast, decide fast and easy to run. "

Pep space is different

(Post in March 2012, in connection with a video that was
built with images of Barcelona led by Guardiola and the
Netherlands led by Rinus Michels).

The greatest aspect that identifies this team are not titles,
pressure or passes, it is space. If at any time Guardiola
decides to continue his coaching career elsewhere, the
space is its hallmark. You no longer have to Xavi and
certainly not transport all current shades, but a
fundamental aspect is the organization and management
of space. Football taught him and feel is constructed from
a defining architectural theory on the field.

Barry Hulshoff, Ajax defender seventies, told what was

the key to his team. "We argued about space all the time.
Cruyff always talked about where we should run, where
was placed the rival, when we should be in our positions
... ". Hulshoff could not play the 1974 World Cup through
injury, but hit the key.

It is daring to be central Barcelona. A lot of risk. It is

simpler, apparently waiting behind or run to that side. In
addition, with the emergence of new lovers model, many
do not take note of the position that has the defensive
line. Many taught him something else: expected back is
better, avoid risks.

At times, rivals are left without land on which to move. He o

trap Guardiola works and gesturing his arms many times
their advance party for defense: attack while you are
defending. Wave or tide comes and front rival left without
sand tread. Off side. The ball back to us. Busquets, Pique
and Puyol are the excavating machine and, at times, all
sand sea take and leave no space.

"We tried to keep the opponent in midfield. Our starting

point was to think not we protected our goal, but we were
attacking midfield line. So did the off side "Said Ruud Krol,
another attacking the midline at the Ajax and the Dutch
national team.

"We watched to keep the opponent in midfield line. Our

view was that we were protecting our own goal, were
attacking midfield line. Why did offsides. " Thus, such
plants are most save
energy on the planet. Now that they are fashionable
softwares measuring the amount of meters that make the
defenses and leading direction, tell me how much do your
core meters and tell you who you are.

Can you imagine walking along the beach of Barceloneta

without sand? Impossible. Well, that is it, that no rival
striker found space to invite walk your partner, or you do
not have more than being alone, perhaps with windy and
cold, unable to look forward. Guardiola excavators
machines will be very high. Magnetized to the asphalt Pass
Marítim or perhaps anchored in Pau Vila Square or the
subway exit. Pep Space is different.

Satisfaction even in defeat

"Since losing is a real possibility, playing well is all that
ensures a modest satisfaction even in misfortune," David
Trueba.
Style or fear of losing
(Post in June 2010, at the end of the day one group stage
at the World Cup in South Africa. Defeat of Spain against
Switzerland).

"End plays, even without a goal, brings more confidence

to contemplate the passage of minutes and see that any
opponent middling believed Mourinho," said Daniel Cana
Moya. The appointment serves to display something that
looks-much in this World Cup 2010. Too scared to lose
on all computers. Almost nobody proposed cede the
initiative and finish plays at the goal seems very rare for
teams.

Spain has been the best team of the day one. While it
was not fine and others continued to insist his style,
contrary paradigm that begins to strengthen football.
Waiting is fashionable back and do that is much easier
than
try to attack. Forgiveness of Chile Marcelo Bielsa, much
admired by Pep, one like Spain to show
concepts
top of this paradigm.

Global competition is another opportunity to define the

priorities. Many do not watch the plot, do not care. Just
they want to get a positive outcome for their interests.
Others, meanwhile, reflect that winning or losing, frames
are important and are a priority, because they define the
identity, meaning and can help the desired outcome.

Van Gaal and Pep cognitive structure

(Post in May 2011, prior to the final of the Champions
League final between Inter and Bayern Munich).

Guardiola said: "Van Gaal Ajax was able to do perfectly

all I think
You should try a football team. "

"Submit to the discipline of the group is to team. Football

is to understand this situation as an opportunity it offers
for everyone to develop their personal talents. That team
wanted and could do all that: play, sacrifice collectively,
individually shine and win

the parties. All of his football players

aware of what his mission on the field: discipline in the

standings possession of the ball as basic idea, the game
continued support, movement two touches ... And they
did everything so easily as sublime. They were able to do
perfectly all I think you should try a football team. There
are other ways to do this, but I liked it that way-and I like-
with Ajax Van Gaal gave lessons football to most painted
"he said Pep Guardiola.

Bayern do not know if this emboba both Pep

as did the Ajax. What is certain is that the coach most
talked about football with Guardiola (with Juanma Lillo
forgiveness) made a big impact on their cognitive
structure about football. Born in the same school, the two
(Pep and Louis) the claim with some different nuances.
What is at stake today is not a drink, it could be at stake
today fidelity to a set of beliefs, a set of beliefs. Of course
Mourinho, get rid of them in search of victory at any price.
Van Gaal, meanwhile, no: as well tozudo ignored. And in P
we congratulate you.

Football as Pep Guardiola at Barcelona B ( Post in

December 2007. Analysis of his team, Barcelona B).

Pep B directing the club and scored some features that

are the identity of the
footballing thought.

The basic idea is that the team stands up, that is,
the backline anticipates
constantly making the small field, in order to have
numerical superiority in midfield and always stand in the
attacking half. On the other hand, always use extreme,
players located in the band to open the field with the aim
of finding spaces and use the entire width of the field to
attack.

B is ordered through the ball. The ball is a first slogan to

comply. The priority is to circulate the ball quickly. Good
game and many chances from the team of Pep, who
suffered at the end of the meeting.

Already we knew: Guardiola has not been doped

never
( Post October 2007).

Italian justice could not look into his eyes. Often, time
gives reason and when there is just cause such as Pep
Guardiola expected, is likely to spend. I had to wait
several years. How badly hurt those who have tried ...
Four months without playing for that and all it represents
a charge of this magnitude.

"Finally, after two years, a book is closed. Could have

prescription benefit me, but I wanted to resort to appeal
to demonstrate my total innocence, "said Pep today. He
followed with a great message: "I have learned a lesson:
everything costs a lot. When you have the reason has to
fight the world. Perseverance has been rewarded. "

It has been one of his greatest joys

because he had pursued for a long time, when others in a
similar situation had already left, but he has fought hard.
Guardiola proves his innocence. It's never too late, we
have never doubted: Pep, for its history, for its
commitment and thousands of other things, it is an
example to all the letters. We have not seen anyone
enjoy football more than Pep. Guardiola would not hurt
him or football with one thing of those who enacted the
unjust.

Felicitats i visca Pep!

The born Guardiola

(Post in March 2006. Long before Pep receive the gold
medal of the Catalan Parliament).

"He played in the selection because the law said they had
to play with the Spanish selection, since Catalan is not
entitled to do so in international competitions. Anyway,
for me it was a pleasure to attend the convocation of the
Spanish team, although I can not deny my country,
Catalonia, that's what I feel inside my head and my heart,
"said Pep Guardiola.

In his Christmas commitment is the desire for autonomy.

In his alleged organization becomes word, the language

oppressed. In the senyera which enlarges and coexists in
his arm claim.

In his heartfelt hymn, suffered battle. In respect of the

stadium, the symbol never forgotten. In its samarreta, the
desired representation. In celebration compatriot, the circle
of sardana. In his balance and endurance, the highest
castle. In its colorful recital, flowers Sant Jordi. In the
architecture of his pass, the modernism of Gaudí.

In the music of his walk, the commitment of Llach.

In his fair statement, the poetry of Martí i Pol.'s Pep

Guardiola, symbol of Catalonia. Catalonia is a symbol of

Pep.

Add one to the rhombus: 3 defenses, one pentagon

and two ends
(Post in January 2012).

A team becomes history because he is remembered over

the years. Johan Cruyff's team, with Guardiola as the
apex of the diamond, I met him deeper into the early
years of the 2000s Irrepetible thought. Taste for 3-4- 3
increased with the advance in viewing videos.

As soon as he took command of the first team, Guardiola

Joan Gamper test at one end 3 4-3 minutes after losing
against Boca Juniors. Pinto in goal, Puyol, Pique and
Abidal in defense, midfield Keita, Xavi and Iniesta as
interior, Victor Vazquez to Bakero, Eto'o 9 and Jeffren
and Pedro, as they were in Barcelona Pep B, as extreme.
Then he prioritized academic 4-3-3.

The team mutates in relation to the opponent and it's never

good to always play the same way. Thus, there are constant
changes in offensive. "The 3-4-3 is possible", he held this
medium in the first round in the league and today applauds
the intervention. If the flyers-end rivals are open or not, it
matters little now. The order gives him the ball, and with the
3-4-3 line wins: older people in the countryside, there's
superiority.

A return of the diamond? Rarely is the diamond. Today a

pentagon sounds better. Five sides: Busquets, keystone,
Xavi, Iniesta and Messi with Cesc always swapping
positions. More parallel, space, one behind the other. Not
matter the numbers or figures, style
It is something else and all you know. Guardiola's team will
make history. Boldness and game concepts presented
today be seen again in years. They are unrepeatable, I
think.
 CONCEPTS OF THE GAME
INDISSOLUBLE

Indissoluble concepts game

The publications inside from Paradigm

Guardiola, regularly they were accumulating. The success
of Barcelona, ​but especially the way he chose the team,
made audiovisual grow and analyzes the content of the
blog had to have more categories to sort and display
information.

From this environment we believe in football as an inextricable

element without autonomous parts. If there is more control,
there will be more chances or better attacks and,
consequently, better defense. Often it is published in Paradigm:
is impossible to recover in this way without prior possession
and the order desired by the Barcelona ball because
Guardiola's team decided to build his plays that way,
recovering in this way. Fails when ordered with the ball,
passes have framed sequences to position game, search
superiorities in the following lines, creating disorder in the
rival by circulating the ball ... the team suffers. Some say
today that Barcelona did not recover as they usually do.
Error. They are parts of the same thing, the game is
indissoluble. Now, considering this section, we can
visualize recoveries after losses on offense. " Portuguese
Vitor Frade and tactics periodization interventions Juan
Manuel Lillo, and many others tell us to play the game this
way.

Worth clarifying that 500 publications are gutting into

categories, but the game does not. And more.
We pretend what the categories
selected are interpreted as
functional, insoluble, global.

Another noteworthy aspect of this stage of Guardiola is

always a whole exhibited evolutions. From year to year
there have always been changes, adjustments,
reconceptualizations. Rivals change, study it well and
present players available also contain updates.
Therefore, it sounds illogical to talk about
categories-concepts as watertight elements. Those
presented below are only fragmentations looking to study
and analyze. Here you go. Put an order in a complex
chaos. Analyze the game of Pep.

OPEN AND PROFOUND

First blog post, January 2006. The blog started talking
about extremes, sometimes forgotten, glued to the band
or out of the current system. It was appropriate to start
with
here. The concept-category that evolved, in my opinion,
during the Pep era, the
we began to look like this:

Welcome! This blog aims to publicize the style, thoughts

and beliefs football midfielder Josep Guardiola of. Pep,
playing in the middle of the pitch of any country in the
world, conveys a way of thinking that football is
disappearing. At a time when the mark, physical and
deployment in half the land is privileged, they appear
good news, like the continuity of Guardiola active in
football. "The teams do not start backwards for me start
with a midfielder and 2 pointers" it is one of his phrases,
in part, can show the thinking of Pep. Guardiola is the
party that will play in your head, think fast, always seem
to observe the moves before their rivals and play a twist
because two
They seem many. Heir School Cruyff, his great teacher,
geometric methodology Van Gaal, offensive quarry
Barcelona and Catalonia nation when playing imposes a
style. It is a powerful desire to write a blog about
defending Pep paradigm. I doubt it and I think it will not
be enough. I need help.

TO

enjoy!".

"When Guardiola says that under his perception teams

start to arm themselves not backward, but with a
midfielder and two pointers, exposes a concept about the
game. Interprets concentrated in the middle of the field,
always looking at the opposing goal and wanting to get to
it using the full width of the pitch.

Jorge Valdano, football Saramago, the best article I've

read about Pep, says about this: "It can happen, for
example, that Guardiola
contact and the ball ends are not glued to the bands. In
that case, he considered traitors to the cause of their
football. In this is so fundamentalist that if you have to
play a game on the beach, putting a mate on the sea and
one on the pier. " These interpretations have the
fundamental right to Johan Cruyff. The Dutchman was the
great master of Pep and the player himself says in his
book My people, my football: "Cruyff imposed a new
philosophy in Barcelona, ​a new concept, endangered,
since Garrincha died. Johan wanted us to play well at the
ends and ends, and applied that theory above all
circumstances ". Guardiola, in the years was in charge of
Barcelona, ​he could play that way. All thanks to the
legacy and imprint Cruyff left the club, also boosted with
the arrival of Van Gaal, another offensive banner of the
Dutch school. Pep defends this idea in any
part: in the field of game -always try to open the game,
always she coincided with very good pointers on their
computers (the last pass he made in Barcelona went to
Marc Overmars) - or any contact with the press. I
remember a post-World 2002 interview, which stood at
Betis because he played with Joachim and Denilson,
saying that in the World including two and two Danish
ends (Rommedahl and Jorgensen) had highlighted, and
stating that he believed in Argentina Marcelo Bielsa.

Guardiola is hard to think without thinking ends. If all

computers in the world take this philosophy certainly fun
and the show would be guaranteed. However, one thing
is clear: two very quick and someone ends as Pep who
plays the game like nobody would be needed.
Unfortunately, this is on track to disappear (second blog
post).
The evolution of extreme
(Post in September 2010).

"It was much easier to stay stuck to the line and make
one on one and focus for head. Now they make you
two-for one and you close. You need to make the
diagonal end and they finish the play. The teams are so
well organized in defense you need many more
exchanges to overflow. That did not happen 15 years
ago, "Danny Blind, Ajax libero Van Gaal, helps to think of
an evolution in offensive movements of the ends. Blind,
used to Finidi and Overmars in that Ajax who stunned
Guardiola certainly proved his theory in practice
Barcelona's game against Panathinaikos.

"We have managed to correct the hue of the ends, attacking

inside and creating superiorities. The other day we did not
play so well. We missed a nuance: the movement of the
ends. We had a
circulation and coming out very good. When one or two
do certain movements everything a bit stuck, "Pep said
after the game. "If the sides rise, the ends have to go
inward, not so fixed," Guardiola extended. Pedro
corrected him perfectly.

Pedro, depth at the ends: destination

wind
(Post in June 2009, shortly after completing the first year
of Pep as coach of the first team. Although he gave few
seconds on the playing field against Manchester United in
the middle stages of the Champions League 2009, Pedro
had only recently started to move. In a season

heaping by the lead

Messi-Eto ' o-Henry, Pep began to give priority to end his
former Barcelona B).

"It's going back to get her. Again he went long and

He threatens to get lost pennant. With other forces, pica
and wants to reach. The ball is a dream come is your life
destination wind. "

"Everything weighs at this time, the stands and the brand and
braked and feints, lies to them again and they go and how they
know, with my head high leaves half on the ground and continues
its flight destination
wind "Luis Alberto Asurey, Argentine singer and his music W
soul.

"Whoever comes must be very good; if not, they are those of the
subsidiary, which have always worked. We are the only home we
produce ends. Is the culture of this house, "explains Tito Vilanova.

So you must have sense of depth and a maximum width.

If one end, or wind
It has these two features ensure a separate rival defense,
the possibility of intervention
internal media and
centrodelantero, penetrations progressive,
conservation ball and continuity
possession, overflows or movements to attend. "The end
is the only player to lose the ball right simply because he
is obliged to play one on one whenever you can. If you
lose, risk suffering a team against is limited and also
allows the pressure to start near the opponent's area. For
a midfielder, one end is always a friend "thought Pep
Guardiola.

Xavi Hernandez acknowledged this regard: "If you have a

pure end, depth, compel the opponent to play with
sticking to your area ass ... There is always a reference in
the end, it gives you a vertical pass, the side is fixed and
create spaces that allow you to get from second line. "

Pure play ends is therefore something unusual. Barcelona

L to school does not fall into that and produce. As anyone.
Ajax and neither produces. It is the position in the field
showing more
revolutionary idea of ​Rinus Michels, Cruyff because they
reinvented the position.

Pep team did not play with pure extreme, but always
occupied the bands. Paradigma Guardiola
He wants lying close to the line. Since the last end from
the quarry of La Masia is Pedro, the eyes are on him to
play with pure ends and to make this season his, his
consecration. Argentina, land where he ends and the
great place of inspiration for the initial poem Asurey,
could claim

the fight
ideology between Bilardo and Menotti, only by their
relationships with ends.

Bilardo does not want: "Before I played with winds.

I had to manage teams with winds. Then I saw that he had
to change. In football, wind It was taken by a man named
tip marker stamp: the pulling out and people cheered.
Then I said ... How a man
It is a phenomenon is overridden by one that pulls out?
Then I started to pull the winds. On each side that we all
said ... "Bilardo, why do not you Winds? ". The daily said
"we are winds, we want a chance. " I spent four years
explaining that ran the winds.

We went inside to give talks and everyone asked me this.

Even my father once asked me ... 'Why do not you Winds?
"" Dad, "I said," just the winds, is now, you do not play
more with winds, do not play more. "

Menotti, instead, analyzes the position by the Dutch

Overmars: "In this football, where we have seen defenses
closed, the spaces are reduced, there are many
stoppages in play, players huddle in the middle arrive by
in every time it is done more complicated. Ronaldo has
not found spaces with Brazil. No spaces found. Once I
called the

cute crazy. Loco Houseman, Tie ... This man seems to

have been born in a favela, as
Garrincha. It is the best player to unbalance defenses
closed. There are no problems between the line and it.
Overmars becomes great solution:
It is the best football players

conceptual tournament is ideal to break defenses

huddling players. "

Although it can not count on him, which glad you and

much, Pep is widely part to the legacy of the Dutch
school. Before this season be deeper depend on your
choices.

Hleb, Guardiola and the value of the ends

( Post in July 2008).

Not all were good for the environment Paradigma

Guardiola. Just arrived Hleb, like signing, it was said:

Its charm for Arsenal was largely

Hleb. Now it will have on your club. It will adapt the
scheme to raise Pep. Although "it is not a classic end in
the sense of what we know," as Guardiola said, probably
he will play on the wing. Pep said that he can play on both
Belarussian and can take 4 or 5 positions on the field.
Interior and, above all, second tip would be framed within
these.

"That worries me little, I am very calm," said Guardiola

when specified on the characteristics of the new Barca
player who sentenciaban that Hleb was not a classic end.
Excepting Pedrito and Jeffren from Barca B players for
Pep and fixed on that team, no classical extremes in the
current Barca squad. What will happen to that principle of
Pep claiming that every team starts to build for a
midfielder and two ends? Pep has always declared for the
ends. It intended that his team has good players glued to
the bands. The answer will surely Messi, Alves (right) and
Hleb and Iniesta (left) use a lot of bands. Clearly classic
ends to continue to depth on the sides are needed. We'll
see. In comments we speak more together.

Needing ends
(Post in September 2008. First match with the first team in
the league).

Guardiola: "We have not respected game

Positional. The fundamental cause of the defeat is that
we lacked breadth, we have narrowed the field. We
attacked badly. We have rules, obligations we know we
should meet, but today we have not done. " Pichi Alonso:
"Barca must
to work
defensively, because serious mistakes. Wanting down the
middle and do not use the bands just taking its toll. This
insistence produces gridlock. In the end, you end up
finding too many players from Barca defenders and
attackers who bother than they help. " Bellvís and Schism
on the left side rises slowed Dani Alves and Messi from
the right side. "One of the problems with that is that this
team is playing Alves at Sevilla was understood perfectly
with Navas and missing. Why? Because Navas also up to
the bottom line in parallel, while Messi does not happen.
The two barcelonistas should work thoroughly this area to
reach an understanding and prevent the Argentine to
score both midfield, bottling Barca attack. Messi and
Alves have to be heavyweights and be understood. "

Victor Valdes: "We had to open the field,

having hooked ends bands and lines had to be closer
together, "said Guardiola what they asked, but did not. In
this regard, he noted players as "solely responsible" for
the defeat.

Johan Cruyff: "Abusing want too much down the middle,

making it even smaller and overpopulated field, and not
take even one of the occasions that I had."

"We struggled the movement of the ball and we choked

on the two lines of five rivals' he said Xavi. "We have not
made our game," summed Iniesta.

Ramon Besa: "A total of 19 shots and close to 70%

possession only served to underline Barca a surprising
defeat. Lacking in speed and depth, devoid of class and
clairvoyance, in need of extremes. Weak areas,
Barcelona refused in the static attack, did not know how
to face the opposing defense and
positionally he failed, one of the subjects that dominates
Guardiola just better.

Preseason 2009: the ends of Guardiola

(Post in July 2009).

"Cruyff taught us to play with and ends"; "Angel Mur is like

me, he likes wide-pointers" are some of the phrases ever
uttered Pep Guardiola. Extreme depth is an issue where
Guardiola always specifies their work. During the first two
games of the preseason 2009 (games against Tottenham
and against Al Alhy of Egypt), Pedro, Jeffren and Gai
exercised pointer on the computer.

Alexis Sanchez: Orthodoxy paradigm

(Post in June 2011. On the occasion of the arrival
Alexis Barcelona).

"The end is the only player to lose the ball right simply
because he is obliged to play one on one whenever you
can. If you lose, risk suffering a team against is limited
and also allows the pressure to start near the opponent's
area. For a midfielder, one end is always a friend "thought
Pep Guardiola, and in his playing. Alexis shall specify
further the sense of depth and maximum width. It will
ensure a separate opposing defense, the possibility of
intervention

internal media and

centrodelantero, penetrations progressive,
conservation and continuity ball possession, overflows or
movements to attend. What will ask Guardiola Alexis
Sanchez? Sometimes you go into space and others who
requests inside and comes together to play. To open the
field, which is offered in length, which is the play and stagger
Dodge, once inside, one outside. In the last match of the
final against Manchester, Peter did not play a lot of balls,
but it was one of the best. End position handed, the
opponent side and fixed to center from a good placement,
left to prioritize ego, aware that well help more peers.
Sanchez must do the same, and has improved greatly in
the last 500 days. Marcelo Bielsa, who Guardiola
appointment every both press conferences as last
stage-and Udinese did better player- I think it includes
more game situations. His change of position in the Friuli
help him too. ¿Replacement of Peter? Yes, surely
alternate with him and even with Messi in the center, but
in particular I would like to replace more than Pedro Villa,
although this will vary with the rival in power and the
characteristics of their defense. Guardiola paradigm
always dignified end and observe two pure ends with
Messi
the center would be very nice.

Cristian Tello is Overmars

(Post in February 2012).

It is no coincidence that La Masia build a pure end.

There's Tello, certifying that school ends and Cruyff did
not die someday explained that some players had to be
very close to the line of lime. Being wide and deep, he
asked. Something Guardiola will be requested to Cristian
Tello. You remember the last pass of Guardiola as a
player at Barcelona? The faithful followers of this blog,
sure. A Overmars, against Celta. Pep today has a very
similar to the Dutch winger available. Overflowing like
nobody else, it has great speed and direction to play in
space or face one on one. Open and deep, the
@ParadigmaPep concept.
Marc Overmars therefore cloned and is now Catalan.

Quit playin
Quit playing to return to Wembley
(Post in May 2011 after the second leg against Real
Madrid in the Champions League).

The world is divided into two coaches, it is clearly seen in

the output from the goal: some people prefer that the
goalkeeper has the ball a defender and pretend
having a first
superiority over the rival strikers, then, contain another
superiority in midfield, while others prefer the goalkeeper
long kick, divide and enhance the latter played. Rain, with
2-0 in favor series, missing 25 minutes to finish the match
leading to a Champions League final, at a high pressure
of the best strikers in the world Valdés passes to his
defenses, there are moves to Alves receives on the side
and is believed superiority. Iniesta did another pass to
Pedro and Barcelona goal. It could be otherwise, but that
was chosen. The conviction ruled out playing the game
and showed the essence.
Pep and Zubi They will return to counting steps. They did
at Wembley in 1992. In the pre-final against Sampdoria
training, goalkeeper and midfielder betting on how many
steps exceeded the lawn where the trophy was delivered.
At the end were 32. May 28, 2011 will no longer be 32 by
the remodeling of the stadium. Now, coach and sports
secretary will live another Champions League final at
Wembley.

Variability continues to "quit playing"

(Post in September 2010).

"More than 20 years we tried to do it this way soccer ago.

We variability, sometimes libero is Busi, other central Xavi
to accept the quality of players; so that playing inside
have much movement, we quit playing from the bottom.
the archer
It passes it to defense, defense midfielder, striker this. If
not for this is impossible, and generate scoring chances,
an idea that we applied for 20 years. " This are
statements Josep Guardiola at a press conference after a
match against Atletico Madrid.

Against Atletico Madrid, always looking for alternatives

that cater to the defense raised by the rival Barcelona
came playing from bottom with Busi libero, Alves and
advanced Maxwell, Messi coming together with Xavi and
Iniesta, and Pedro and Villa making spaces to inside.

Quit playin
(Post in June 2009).
Guardiola is very clear. A center can do two things: one,
to defend; another, demanding the ball and go play.
Almost everyone makes only the first, but Pep wants its
central do both.
When Rafael Marquez and Gerard Pique played together,
Barcelona has deployed his best games.

"I am reminded that one day, listening to Johan Cruyff,

had the most important players for a team to play well
with the ball in his possession are his defenses. If you go
right, you can get to play well; If you do not, there is no
choice. Johan believes that balancing the game is the
ball. You lost a lot, and be an unbalanced team. He lost
few, and it will all balance. " Pep Guardiola is the author
of this quote and the author of a computer exhibiting this
idea like no Dutch.

Guardiola knows that a loss where central move can be

terrible. Everybody knows. That is why everyone avoids
doing what Pep priority in his scheme.

As the movement of the ball ensures the development of

positional play, Pique and Marquez
They never crossed the ball for the moment. In each
transmission, we see the possibility of making feasible
one defensive disarticulation rival. Quick search Xavi or
Iniesta to organize the offensive game, long throw
towards one end looking for the least protected rival side,
overcoming the first line of opposition, permanent
changes in circulation, numerical superiority in midfield
through a line ... are framed at each intervention of these
central values. The risks cited are allowed to facilitate the
cycle computer game ever began to build from behind.

One that can play Guardiola's team is the Brazilian

defender Henrique: "I fit into the profile of central
Barcelona. I'm fast and one of the best features is
releasing the ball from behind playing. It's what I like,
because you think superiority from behind, "he said. In
Germany he was asked to make long passes
immediate. Thus, we will check the identity of the
Brazilian. Some time ago, while this blog analyzing the
actions of the Chilean Mago Valdivia in the Brazilian
team, it did not go unnoticed central driving the ball to
midfield. Mark it with yellow (not red) to continue
watching. This was observed while playing in Palmeiras
(see video interventions). There, someone saw him and
recognized that it was the two things that Guardiola asked
his plants.

Plants with output trademark

(Post in August 2010 before the start of spring training
days).

Four Catalans and born in La Masia defenses could fill

the gap in the squad left by Rafael Marquez and
Chygrynskiy. The four comply perfectly with a solid
concept
the game prioritizes Barcelona. Quit playing, get the ball,
create superiority in midfield from defense, go to the
opposite to create the two for one and, above all, seek a
second pass line to realize the third man are questions
that will not go overlooked in these defenses season.
With what is left? Bartra, right, and with some more
experience than Gomez, can make difference profile and
quality. Andreu Fontas, Marc Muniesa, Sergi Gomez and
Marc Bartra. If not satisfied, Guardiola will notice. And, if
not, ask Henrique. "We have quality plants for the first
team, we will not make signings in this position," said
Pep.

Marquez, the archetype of central Guardiola

(Post in August 2008. A few hours after the end of the
first official match of Barcelona
Guardiola as first team coach. Against Wisla).

Pep said it long ago. Two years ago he proclaimed that

Barca played 10 times better if Marquez played well. And
at the end of his argument, he showed the archetype of the
Mexican: "It's a Koeman, gives you things that no center
gives you." To Wisla, beyond observing the lines together,
good circulation, possession and initiative in the attacking
half pressure and traps

off side from central defense, it was made clear what

Guardiola wants Marquez and Marquez importance of a
team like Barca.

Marquez is the beginning of the plays, assists his

teammates, playing the game from the back, giving long
passes, he takes the ball up to three rooms, no flaw in the
one against one, has excellent passing game, great
anticipation and, above all , is leading the offside trap.
Finally, it is
a central which falls within the paradigm Guardiola.

If a center can do two things (one, defending, another call

for the ball and go play), Marquez's mind deals with the
two. He asks the wants, not hiding behind the front.

Pep could have won otherwise, but those ideas that get
along in force him to put people like Marquez in the
background.

Pique, superiority from defense

(Post in April 2010 after a meeting at the Camp Nou
against Deportivo de La Coruna).

Another game academic against a rival that was

harmless. So no one deigned to press Gerard Piqué
when central defender performed superiority in midfield
from their translations of possession from the defense.
With this, Pique created numerical superiority and
allowed the relevant movement of Barcelona, ​which
became the ideal for a team that led the match with
almost total possession and excellent combinations
complement. Dynamics and fluidity showed one of the
best games of the season: Guardiola's team played with
more extreme than ever (Pedro and Jeffren) doing their
best sides and the inside game.

Vindicating the specificity of Márquez

(Post in February 2010. Barcelona won 1-0 at Sporting
Gijon with a goal by Pedro).

Rafael Marquez returned to the central axis and

Guardiola was again the central pair most repeated last
season. The best parties agreed when the Mexican and
Pique went from playing
background. Although

recovering at physical tone, Marquez meets to

perfectly the requirements of a central paradigm Guardiola.
Pep already said in 2006: "When Márquez plays well, the
team plays ten times better." Marquez seeks his way and
Pep already have it ready for February.

Meeting with Busquets

(Post in January 2010).

And what good is that Busquets down both receive? "It is

useful when the opponent plays with two strikers. If low
Busquets, we superiority and one of the three ways to get
the ball is free. It is beneficial situations cause. Barca
always have to go to provoke, because most teams do
not come here to win, but that nothing happens to them.
We have to read the game and know that the long and
short passes are equally good. If the opponent is closed,
you have to make changes in orientation of the game.
And, if it is open, best short "sentence Gerard
Pique.

The goalkeeper and his break with his feet

(Post in January 2012).

José Manuel Pinto was vital in the first ten minutes, as the
doorman gave pause, patience and respite to the team
against Osasuna (Copa del Rey in the first game of
2012). To set infrequent errors in those minutes did not
touch the ball with his hands, but his game with his feet
allowed persist in seeking to overcome lines. Starting off
from the bottom, of course.

It is another facet of game show love, because through it,

we see that this undoubtedly is due to methodology and
training exercises decisive. As the pressure and
recovering the ball after loss are things @ParadigmaPep
mark (for those
not yet follow us on Twitter).

Guardiola porters working situations that each party

claims and, above all, are exercises with his feet. We
refer to outputs and again passes to be specific or vary
encounter.

"A party sublime foot level, with patience, tranquility '

Guardiola he sentenced
about Pinto.

The libero is Victor Valdes

(Post in April 2011).

Guardiola did not like his archers tirasen pelotazos, as

the ball passed over his position and came at a
disadvantage for the team. Pep wanted a short pass
posibilitase continuity in game creation: an outing with
passes, quiet but
effective circulation and possession. So, now in times of
trainer educates your team. Similarly, Victor Valdes,
goalkeeper, started the practice, being, during this
season, much better than the previous. With his feet
almost never loses, it gives pause necessary to the
intended departure for Barcelona. Journalist Luis Martin,
who wrote an excellent book about Andoni Zubizarreta,
clarifies: "The Barcelona has a doorman and exploits it,
because as soon puts her hands to the angle between the
post and the lawn outside Zubizarreta--just like played
with the feet with tino Busquets. His participation in the
game goes beyond what for. "

"Guardiola has taught me to understand the game

beyond the goal" says Valdes. Pep lessons Victor already
beginning to take shape in times when the coach was
active in the field.
Valdes record
(Post in November 2011).

The goalkeeper position is the position less valued in this

medium. There is little material about it. The record for
shutout minutes with Victor Valdes make us appreciate it
even more. It's not an anecdote, but a consequence of
team play. 38 minutes, while serving a record, gets the
ball in his area but it goes playing with a pass.

If there is a record, it is granted Valdés passes during a

season. For lovers of statistics, in older cases to a rival
midfielder. We had already mentioned: the libero is Victor
Valdes.

HIGH PRESSURE
You have five seconds

(Post in February 2012).

It is impossible to recover in this way without prior
possession and the order desired by the Barcelona ball.
Mainly Guardiola's team decided to build his plays that
way, recovering in this way and, when it fails ordered with
the ball, passes have framed sequences to

position game, search

superiorities in the following lines, create disorder in the
rival by circulating the ball ... the team suffers. Some say
today that Barcelona did not recover as they usually do.
Error. They are parts of the same thing, the game is
indissoluble. Now, considering this section, we can
visualize recoveries after losses on offense. Count. They
will only five. And if they are there, on the field playing for
the hand, only they have the time to create transition.

Eto'o, the first defense

(Post in November 2008).
Guardiola defends football is based on collective
automations that are above individualities. "When I ask a
center forward more, Eto'o convinced him that alone will
do nothing and needs to peers." While others only ask for
effectiveness, Pep wants his 9 participate with their peers
and be the first defense when losing possession.

If you are near the opposing goal, wear to get there is

less, so you can force your opponent to be running
meters and meters to reach the goal. Marcelo Bielsa
makes clear: "I want to always be in the field of them, get
the ball as close as possible to the opposing goal to
generate the greatest potential for offensive action."
Guardiola framed its paradigm in the phrase of Bielsa,
because no pressure as Africa begins.

"Someone should repair the

Team recoveries thanks to their pressure, "emphasizes
Unzúe, assistant Pep.

Eto'o, who yesterday scored four goals in each game

saves having to run 30 meters back and then do it in
reverse. The centrodelantero is the first to start pressure
on the rival output.

Meanwhile, says Cruyff: "The goal is just the culmination

of the hard part: making the option of marking". With the
pressure Eto'o scoring options always increase at Barca.

Ordered manual attack

(Post in March 2011, after a match against Arsenal at the
Camp Nou in the Champions League).

For those who follow us on Twitter for the

parties is not new. Nor for those who have spent years in
this environment and know the main concepts of this
model of play: 74 possession, high pressure, rising block,
open and deep, quit playing. In the nuances of each are
the keys and within possession, position and possession
on offense, there is a key that is reflected back in recent
games, which is the immediate recovery after an
offensive loss. We did the question to our Twitter
followers during the first minutes of the game. Then, the
goal of Messi and determining skill. Before a work train.

Guardiola: "Our greatest success was that everyone wanted

to get the ball '
(Post in June 2009).

Then we include some statements Pep Guardiola at the

conference to
Clinic coaches in football in Tenerife. Through
collaborative work we will expand this publication:

"Without the necessary attitude, it is impossible to translate any

strategy."
"The first is the will of the player." "Want fuck otherwise the
ball. Players must tell the rival "I'm coming for you," that's
the key to everything. "

"Our greatest success this season is that everyone wanted

to get the ball."
"The great virtue has been the willingness of the team to run,
run and run."
"If someone decides not to sacrifice nor run, it is quickly
portrayed."
"If I saw complaining that loses a ball or not at the next
game, he would see me next on the bench."

"In my life I have seen a player does not want to do

something. If things are not working out is
tries to talk to him and listen to what the problem is. " Pep
assumed is not the same deal with players aged 16 or 17
years with cracks:
"With them you have to talk face to face in the office or go
to dinner needed to solve the problem."

"In the football world there is only one secret: I have the
ball or not have the ball. Barcelona has opted to have the
ball, although it is permissible for other teams do not have
the ball. When we have the ball, then you have to recover
because we need the ball. " "The hardest thing is to
counter rival football when you've lost the ball. The player
must be told not to be afraid to try and lose the ball
because football is that; Messi knows he can always try,
because it has ten players behind helping if fails; Come
on, that if the shits, nothing happens".

"When both the front and the defense

feel important, then we are facing a championship team.
The great strength of this year's Barcelona who have run
a lot and they are very good ".

The defending champion while attacking

(Post in May 2010).

La Liga Barcelona finishes and continues to display his

game: against Sevilla, another exhibition. So said Pep
himself. As against historical Villareal or 15 opening
minutes against Arsenal, his game denotes workouts so
that the equipment can be compact in defense lines
together and overwhelm the opposite. This, coupled with
possession and circulation to touch and very fast in the
attacking half, makes the Barcelona defend better
because lives attacking. The opponent gets the ball near
his own net and quickly is assailed by the solidarity ends
(Pedro to
head), the side that will not stop tightening, central living
area that defend well and know always pulling up the trap
off side,
means positioned well and pressing forward center at
high speed. The sides also serves overlooked. Barcelona
has defended his own attack, his style marks and mark
against Valladolid. Thus, try to be champions.

UP DEFENSE
defensive organization in search of a good
attack
(Post in February 2011).

"The big difference between Arsenal last season and now

is the placement of Van Persie," said the Barcelona
coaching staff in an article by Luis Martin The country.

Guardiola studying the opponent and one of his favorite

moments is to imagine the movements of the opponent.
As a player once he said: "You can not imagine the
pleasure I find the spaces I saw before the game." As a
coach will be enhanced that feeling. How to defend
rivals? Most coaches who study in detail rival tactically
adapt to them, are able to change markedly from one
party to another as the rival offensive. Guardiola quickly
say that the game is a whole, the attack and defense are
not autonomous elements.
Tito Vilanova says one of the greatest virtues is that his
team is not adapted opponent while defending. "We
stand equally in all parties, having different attack find the
strengths and weaknesses rival's turn."

The exceptions are few. In a match against Inter, Milito

played side left. Y
Guardiola then reconsidered and changed it as a betrayal.
Except in games against Real Madrid, where industry
changed Puyol in central defense, other parties where
Barcelona has modified its plan can not remember.

The man chases man never existed in the paradigm.

Defensive organization can also think in terms of how
they are going to attack. "Indeed, a team that defends
man to man or individually will

unbalanced positionally
(Disorganized!) At the time when
retrieves the ball, context that does not favor
the transition defense-attack
(Hardly this will be quickly and safely!), With all the
negative consequences that may arise there, "declared
Lillo in 2003. Defend near where you attack and vice
versa. An individual defense is not collaborative, not
collective, so individual behavior implies a recovery in at
least the transition from defense to attack. If the offensive
moment begins before repossessing and defensive
moment begins before losing the ball, correctly occupy
the spaces of pitch thinking the game as a whole within a
zonal marking seems as offensive as possible. In
matches like today, compared with few rivals trying to
have initiative, possession and attack (Arsenal is another
paradigm of this), but he never brings out the importance
of how it defends. A note:
the world present a new false.

The defense in the attack, the attack on defense

(Post in April 2009).

It is one of the highest ideas of their paradigm. Puyol and

Alves will press forward in extreme positions, the front will
do the same on the opponent out and Marquez and Pique
central defenders, initiate attacks Pep Guardiola's
Barcelona. All at the service of unpayable architecture
Xavi and Iniesta.

"If Guardiola run fine style, just they are sending. People
may think that just playing, you spend a lot of energy. Is
not true. Play fast ball, with lines together, it requires
more of a physical than mental effort. If you manage to
always play in the attacking half, you get tired less. And
steal many balls in the field rival is not synonymous with
running the
crazy, but to run it right back and then having to run
slightly forward because you are already advanced. Again
is the club, with his style, which leads to deception. For
his play, he runs less than it seems. Therefore, the
players seem fresher than the opponent, because while
some suffer without the ball, the other fun ", says Cruyff.

"Nobody enjoys both the club and the ball was seldom
pampered. Barca's fans herself, protects the acuna ... she
lives her, she defends and attacks her. And it does a
commendable union, corporate sense: Eto'o defends both
as advances Alves. It is the goldsmith Pep Guardiola,
graduated from the mud of the Third and registered with
honors in the First.

"Barca was the best Barca, from start to finish: the ball on
the grass, always domesticated, eyes forward, swaps
constant, the
defense in the attack, the attack on defense ... So is his
absolutist ideology that is unable to speculate.

"His faithfulness is the best news of the league, much still

can wrest them a title. The moment has won, and by far
the most beautiful team award, "stresses Jose Samano in
country.

POSSESSION 74
"Xavi and Iniesta are vital, because in our system, the ball
must always go through midfielders so that everything
makes sense and order. Obviously, with them everything
is easier. "

"The ball commands us all in the field; the more you give
the ball touches more we play together and we're all on
our site, so if we lose the ball, it's harder to make us a
backlash. "

"Sergio Busquets is tactically very intelligent and always

offered giving outputs and continuity ball. Touré Yaya
started as inside and slowly have done back in the field, I
told you that next year it's up to Valdes'.

There is no better superiority than a good possession

(Post in November 2009).

There is no better superiority than a good ball. It's through

ball teams are ordered, and they hope to rivals with 8
men behind the line of the ball and look for the
counterattack. When they stay with a man, not know how
to counterpose the touches that order, which together
lines that make running rival to fray, making the
Barcelona defend well and attack better. You dominate
and control the game is a good meet 74 possession.

The faster played Xavi, Iniesta and Messi over the

opponent got tired. When they thought faster than rivals
(especially after the expulsion of Busquets), the ball
picked up speed and rhythm, after a first half in which the
flow of the game Guardiola team was not present. "A lot
of distance between the defense and the media" Pep
said. Undefended above,
team is unknown. Then, Guardiola urged patience,
moving the ball (Possession 74) and the team fulfilled.

Nothing would have been the same without a huge

defense of Barcelona. It is through that possession that all
players are in place: show a positional game. So, Pique
and Puyol are better placed and, in turn, are epic in
transcendental parties. Alves and Abidal were,
meanwhile, defended good defenders because attacking.

If the party was key to demand a certain style of

understanding the game, to claim the concepts framed in
the paradigm ... What more could you ask?

High possession basis to defend well and attack

better
(Post in September 2009).
Guardiola's team played simplest, had very similar to the
set we knew, identity mechanisms. "We played very
simple, they knew that we saw player, player who had to
happen. We have regained control of game last season.
We pressed well, we only have kicked once with danger
and we have had many occasions, but always playing
close together and controlling the game, "said Pep.

Possession is a pillar for this Barcelona, ​a mother idea in

the paradigm Guardiola. The more you have, Pep is
quieter: when the percentage of ownership 70% mark
after the match, shows that the team was part of that
paradigm. This possession must be complemented by a
good set of position, circulation and high definition.

According to the great Cruyff, position play and rhythm

are the keys ball. "All this with a
purpose: to create spaces, possibilities to finish scoring a
goal. The goal is not to make a rondo no more. Every
pass, every movement has to have a sense. If you finish
the play, though not in a goal, there is no chance to
surprise opponent against. If you finish the play, you force
them or take caretaking or band. And you reorganize
without you. If again and again looking for the rondo
rondo by more sooner or later one will commit a fault. And
if this is in the danger zone, all running and disadvantage.
Risk passes, always up near the opponent's goal and
never their own. If one catches the ball in the midfield and
up the side, responsibility becomes a more defensive
than offensive. If you get the ball up enough, if you can
give the risky pass, because you know that your back
enough people. If you go wrong, nothing happens,
because you know you're behind cover. "
Possession and position

(Post in February 2011).

"The football associations of young players from

Barcelona dominated the game, but was overtaken on the
scoreboard for the rapid and direct the Arsenal game,"
declared Luis Martin again, clarifying in The country.

One of the tweets ( Barcelona still some matches

through our Twitter
@ParadigmaPep) during today's meeting was "#Arsenal
attacks far from where he defends,
# Barcelona defends very close to where attacks. Circulation
fast generate superiorities
# Guardiola. "

We have always praised possession of Barcelona, ​since

only those who remain in history can do with such
percentage for so long. Yesterday's match was played
spectacular at how Barcelona. Vertigo scored the 2-1, but
Pep displays it: "It is one
of the best games we've done in Europe, even better than
last year. " Before the fastest in the world in transition
defense-attack team, the position of the players is vital
and may be that the second half was not so good. Not
finish the plays, Messi asking her far behind rival
midfielders accompanying climbing up to Xavi and Iniesta
... generate a small mess. Perhaps, without the adverse
outcome, we would not be talking about this, but all
remember possession and, above all, the game position
this team. That only a few minutes for long months have
not so clear, it's nothing.

Manual to maintain possession

(Post in July 2011, after the friendly against Manchester
United).

Busquets central is another confirmation of the

preseason. Starts plays and ensures good possession and
good positioning on defense. Barcelona tells how to attack
rivals, you know how they are going to attack. Part with
their idea of ​keeping the ball in his possession and forces
the opponent who wants to attack, to do so in a certain
way: the contras. Manchester won yesterday as well.
Therefore it is very difficult to play like Barcelona, ​because
the risks are greater. So the ball moves.

to play
(Post in June 2009).

"Our football is no coincidence, is the result of what he learned

Pep and a lot of work ... My game needs partners, without them
does not make sense. I'm nothing if you do not throw me
uncheck the other me is not offered in short ... Without my
football teammates makes no sense. I can give little walk, but if
I find happens, what good is it for? ... In the club
I was told that if he played in the middle could not lose
the ball and as I am a very responsible guy, I learned to
save. And I like. To me what I like football is to have the
ball, or that have a companion. I enjoy when we touch
the ball, pim, pam, pum,

triangle, a wall ... "says Xavi. "... Football Cruyff ... I

learned from him. He filled the midfield people, triangles,
touch, support position. What to look before you get it
taught me at Barca ... Madrid dominated some games,
but had a lot of punch. We play more as a team than
them ... No ball must always play. To begin with, because
if they do they have to remove it. And, if we only have one
player, so it is essential that the other players are always
in the position, opening the field, offering to pass the ball
to circulate or open spaces ... ".
Cruyff noted: "The midfielders, one or two touches. Only
thus they give leeway to the front, making them quick to
get the ball. The final move forward to the front, not
midfield, because then, or just the -shot move, out of
band or outside portería- or when you enter problems.
Because before a fumble,

the
midfielders are not where they should be, and that's one
against, and that is to engage your defenses ... The role
of midfielders, the principal, is not playing end or 9. make
postmen for the front. And I do the least and dropping
driving as fast as possible. Because then you get three
things: give the ball pace, give an edge to your game
forward and keep your position, not offensive but
defensive, as there is a fumble or a clearance. And of
these, in a game, there are kicked. "
Attack and defense at the same time
(Post in December 2011, minutes from the end of the
match against Santos of Brazil. The Barcelona world
champion again).

Football is smart midfield, passing, technique and vision

to double physical and speculative pivot. With mastery
and control, with Guardiola and another party possession
and position players. 3 defense is deployed to have more
quantity into the medium.

It is claim to understand the game as an indissoluble

entity, defense and attack as a whole. The ball
commands us all
and with it, both sides are best met: the methodology
applied to that concept and idea, key in achieving good
game, application, intensity and relevance players. If
there were doubts,
is he paradigm
reconceptualizes the game.
 GUARDIOLA SELECTION

Guardiola selection

The edition of this book ended while proclaiming his

non-renewal Guardiola in front of
first Barcelona team. The
speculation about his future hatch quickly. Where will he
go? When ?, were the questions that began to sound in
relation to Pep.

Very clearly, Guardiola himself acknowledged that his

mind will rest and then decide his future. It is not intended
to guess or try these precipitate his return to football
pages. Respecting the profession and existing contracts,
the following idea arose with the intention
to forecast the future of the digital platform that frames
this work.

At the presentation held in Barcelona for Qatar's bid to

host the 2022 World Cup, Guardiola spoke he would like
to lead a team. Hence this initiative for some years Paradig
Guardiola tries to be a platform for analyzing football, but
above all, a simulation tool contact with Guardiola, a
platform that can help your work.

The last wish of Socrates

"For Pele and Garrincha, so well played and cried team of

82, by the smile of Ronaldinho and Ronaldo's goals in the
land and, if there is life on all planets, no one denies the
Cup Brazil ", Guardiola wrote before the World Cup in
2006.
Images of the World Championship in 1982 played in Spain
will not be erased from the memory of P ep. Valdir Péres;
Leandro, Oscar, Luizinho Junior; Socrates, Toninho Cerezo,
Falcao, Zico, Eder; Serginho. This was the formation of Brazil
who fought and lost to Italy. Paolo Rossi's hat-trick did give
up the dream final between South American and France.
Zico, Socrates and his friends against Platini and Giresse. It
could not be, but the carioca mark on the tournament hardly
be erased. Perhaps the first contact between Brazil and
Guardiola.

Then, would come the long

talks on Jairzinho, Tostao, Rivelinho or caipirinha with
Emili Ricard (Pep someone qualified to mitómano by his
obsession with Brazil). Or, on the other hand, welcome
dinner as Rivaldo completed his move to Barcelona,
​where, apparently, Guardiola manages its inclusion in
food to meet the Brazilian and jump the queue with the
president of the club. As soon as Romario came to Dream
Team,
and it was found that Brazil has something special in his
players. In training the team led by Johan Cruyff, he puts
his hands to his head by the things he did and the same
image forward records manifest Barcelona 5-0 over Real
Madrid in 1993-1994. After the famous cow's tail Romario
(who received a pass from Pep) Guardiola takes the
same hands to the head can not understand so much skill
and ability. Later, he would like Ronaldo and Rivaldo
companion, among others.

During his tenure in Rome Fabio Capello, Emerson

matches and also understands that Brazil has strong
midfielders and wisdom to play.

We could go on with long matches between career of

Guardiola and Joao Gilberto country and Caetano Veloso:
the final in Japan in 1992 against Sao Paulo of Tele
Santana, the
party celebration of the centenary of Barcelona against
the Brazilian team, the coincidence in Qatar with Al Ahly
coach Jose Macia,
Pepe ( former Santos player Pele) or the decision not to
count on Ronaldinho when Pep took the first team.

However, something caused a turning point in this

historical relationship. While Alves and Adriano addressed
in this Barcelona who stunned us, Socrates (the same as
surely amazed Pep on television at the World
Championship in Spain) made a request to the federation
of their country. Socrates himself (I take this opportunity to
recommend an article by Argentine Ezequiel Fernández
Moores
on democracy
corinthiana) he recommended Guardiola as coach of the
national team. Mention was not original, at that time
recognized personalities of world football requested as a
future coach Pep shift the country, but the argument of
Socrates was worth
I hear: "Who's defense in Barcelona? Are you seen him
play? No need to defend like others, do not destroy,
because their own defenses initiate the attack. Current
systems have infected the Brazilian defense and limited
to the offensive, forcing them to defend as others, thereby
reducing performance. Guardiola's style would be perfect
for Brazil. "

With permission from Alex Bellos, author of bright l ibro Fu

The Brazilian Way of Life, and players who will be
recognized in world history, one better than Socrates to
define the coach of your choice.

In October 2011, the mentor of the phrase "my perfect

match would anyone errase a pass' Pep postulated to
recover the identity of Brazilian football.

The desire of Socrates did not go unnoticed in the world of

football. Closeness in carrying out the World Cup in Brazil
during 2014 deepened
the footballing debate that land. The game and the
selected path by Pep excited while most Brazilians polls
showed his liking for a foreign coach was made by the
team.

Perhaps the final contested by Barcelona against Santos

of Brazil in Japan on December 17,
2011, can run as a tribute to Socrates. In the early days of
that month, the world cried the painful death of Socrates.
A few days later, after winning 4-0 at Santos, Guardiola
said: "We played like he did a lifetime Brazil, taking the
ball and making passes." With the

famous 3-7-0,
thus called by Muricy Ramalho, Santos coach, Barcelona
showed a way. "If you do that in Brazil, even the police
would come to fetch him," Ramalho argued in relation to
the number of midfielders who placed the Catalan team.
Socrates could not see that
end, but his words could well refer to that party. Socrates
initiative was therefore circling talks futebol

in Brazil. So much so that hours after Guardiola

announced he would not continue in the Barcelona
coach, Guardiola Seleção, a
platform by Brazilian fans, won more than 7,000
signatures. The platform, known in so-called social
networks, not stop winning followers, and the slogan
says: "voltar para o Brasil Futebol de verdade plays."
Socrates football, soccer truth. Someone should pay
attention to the last footballing desire to Socrates.

Pep before the revolving door Stuart Pearce

Stand in front of a revolving door requires a decision.

This is progress and introduced accelerating the pace or
stay out waiting for the right time or
monitor the situation. Some of these doors are polarized,
you can not see what's on the other side. Often, if a
person decides to enter, which is left out, though know
their intent, wait a few seconds. As if the inertia of the
circular motion did return to the person who entered.
Some love the series often used as a resource to narrate
the decision of a reverse in a couple, especially in the
revolving doors of an airport. At least in Argentina, they
are widely used to shield entries in banks.

Josep Guardiola A always struck the Premier League. As a

player, he was about to make the decision to move forward
and enter the world of come on, guys. Playing in England
could be a pending matter in his football career. In his two
years in Qatari league, he coincided with some veterans
who were about to leave the profession, but with some
power in their former teams. In 2005, the Algerian Ali
Benarbia which came from
Al-Rayyan play and met several times a green Al Alhy of
peptic advised the coach of Manchester City recruit the
midfielder Guardiola. Bernarbia had played in the English
team and called former left side of the selection of that
country and, at that time, blue team coach Stuart Pearce.
Pep was tested in the City for a week training under the
watchful eye of Pearce. At 34, he received a proposal that
did not appeal to him because the English team offered
him a contract for six months. Catalan wanted a one-year
contract. There was no agreement. Pearce opened the
door of the Premier, but Pep did not cross to the other
side. Decided, so do not enter through the revolving door
of the Premier.

Currently, Stuart Pearce, manager of the England Under

21 since 2007, took over the
Italian Fabio Capello as
coach of the senior team. Englishmen
They designate his replacement and speculate, as most
of the footballing universe with Josep Guardiola renewal.
Apparently, they want there. Just begun May, the oldest
football association in the world will hire a coach for Euro
a month later will be held in Poland and Ukraine.

Pearce is only in charge of this transition. It will not direct

the European Championship, he will again be coach of
youth and command the whole of Britain during the
London Olympics. In this way, you could get back in front
of Guardiola and cede space if Pep decides to enter.

Some years passed, more than six, and Guardiola is

another. Now he is a coach who managed to
reconceptualize the game. Good thing you know, everybody
wants to imitate: some encourage and others not. The
midfield area is somewhat thicker in England ... It's not just
Arsenal Wegner
which attempts to pass. So Guardiola led Barcelona gave
some master class bright, that surely dazzled the English.
Champions League encounters against their "beloved"
Arsenal and two final against Manchester United, one in
Rome and one in the very Wembley, will be remembered
in the islands.

Like a revolving door, six years later, Guardiola returns to

relate to England. Pep adventure last player with Pearce
and the City was not the only one. In September 2005,
Paul Jewell's Wigan coach then -for

- He had a conversation with Guardiola and tempted

him to join his team. "I talked with Pep and I was
impressed, because he knows a lot of us," he stated. "I
called and left a message. Notably, five minutes later I
called him. Wigan knew all about, all about our players ...
He named Jimmy Bullard, Graham Kavanagh,

I knew how
we played. I was surprised". Days later, Jewell himself
would announce that Pep would not play on your computer.

In a short or long time, perhaps, we can see Pep at the

Premier or his selection. The owners of the strongest
plants in the world in the air, intense game owners and
transitions with extreme speeds ... want to change. And
hired an orthodox Italian school and they went wrong.
Now, it seems, want a Catalan with other extreme style.

There is something that draws the attention of England:

alleged lovers of vertigo and direct game, much to admire
Dennis Bergkamp (for example) and Paul Scholes
respect (as we know, the favorite English player Pep).
Years ago a countercultural Arsenal emerged in these
lands and now we already see teams like Swansea, who
try another style. Wilshere, Henderson, Lansbury,
Mancienne, Jones, Caulker,
Gibbs, Walker ... are some of the representatives of a
new batch of players, being English, closely related to
another way of feeling and train this discipline.

"Pep before the revolving door Stuart Pearce" was written

in April 2012. Still Guardiola's decision was not known.

Qatari persistence

The first offer to coach Guardiola had was from Al Alhy of

Qatar. "Only to be a coach '(' Just to be coach '), it was a
response he got Paradigma Guardiola a journalist close to
the club. It was a first that published this medium.
Guardiola left a great image as a footballer in the two
years he was in the Gulf country. Before becoming one of
the most frequently mentioned in world football coaches,
Qatar and wanted there.
The organization of the 2022 World triggers a great
opportunity for Qatar and its link with football. Elite want a
coach so you can take charge of the national team.
Unless achieve qualification for the 2018 World Cup will
be the first time that Qatar will participate in the highest
competition selections. It will be at home and will want to
use the occasion: organization, economic output and no
shortage of projects. Beyond being able to offer a similar
(or larger) contract European football any large institution,
Qatar long-term project. The Aspire Project, the largest
global investment in grassroots football, in a few years
will enable Qatari players to compete in Europe. For
years, European clubs perform tournaments and friendly
with Aspire, aiming to train their players. Although there
are many youth from different countries, it is estimated
that some may choose to play in the Qatari team. Having
a group of highly trained coaches to run the project and a
quality in the Scouting Players, Aspire managed to win in
England for example, 5 to 1 juvenile Manchester United in
the final of the Milk Cup- known. Are any of these players
can play Qatar in 2022? If so, Qatar will have players
ready and able to make a qualitative leap. Qatari football
has improved a great percentage in relation to the period
2003-2005, when Pep was a player. In the Asia Cup
organized in your country what we saw: we saw compete
on par with Asian powers like Japan. I remember the
semifinals 3-2 in favor of the Japanese, who knocked out
the dream of the final Qatar. Some of his teams leading
tournaments on the continent, known as Al Sadd, who
managed to face Barcelona in the Club World Cup in
Japan

2011.

It is public knowledge that the Qatari federation Guardiola

bid and bid contract
so you become national coach of that country. Pep Will
you take the challenge to lead Qatar to a central plane in
world football? Will a second part in the Qatari country?

Pep Argento

Guardiola did not play in Argentina and know that he would

have liked. Very close to the River at the time, he could not
reach. The relationship between Lionel Messi and Barcelona
wakes him in the debates in the country of Diego. How to
get the best player in the world today? Guardiola could be a
solution. When Guardiola wrote newspaper articles The
country during the 2006 World Cup in Germany, he declared:
"Messi will give the World Cup to Argentina."

It is doubtful whether a country with a strong footballing

identity could bear the idea of ​a
foreign coach in their selection, but demonstrations by
Argentina, like Brazil, surprised. The doubts go through if
the financial offer could reach Pep receive other offers
and also if Guardiola himself would choose to take a load
relief: to coach Argentina's national team.

Paradigma Guardiola He interviewed or contacted every

Argentine who accompanied the football career of Pep
and there are several coincidences that bind to Argentina.
It will turn to another book, perhaps, by the accumulation
of material related to the subject. From Matute Morales,
his chauffeur in Mexico during his time in Dorados, to
dialogues with Andres Yllana on long warm-ups of the
Italian winter in Brescia, talking about the speed of passes
in Argentine football. Pep, who at the time praised the
power that gave Argentina the ball, said that the passes
were very slow. Andrés you clarified that the grass, often
precludes
speed. You know who he got his last goal Pep Guardiola
at the Camp Nou? Yes, an Argentine: Albano Bizzarri,
Valladolid goalkeeper. Guardiola agreed on campus with
several Argentine, noted at the time the person defender
Mauricio Pellegrino (Barcelona), trained Gabriel Milito,
Lionel Messi and Javier Mascherano. always he stressed
the attitude and competitiveness of Argentine has faced
as a coach (eg, Ever Banega in his duels against
Valencia). Other stories that are remembered, we can
name his first Joan Gamper Cup against Boca Juniors,
led by Carlos Ischia. After losing 1-0 for most of the game,
Guardiola put a 3-4-3 and in the last five minutes,
Barcelona turns the result: 2 to 1. That was a first sign of
what was to come later, season six cups. The first final of
the Club World Cup played against Estudiantes de La
Plata, Argentina in other career path
Pep professional.

There are more stories, some better known as his meeting

with Marcelo Bielsa or Cesar Luis Menotti, reading and
analyzing the book Rodolfo Walsh
operation Slaughter through a registered journalist Ariel
Scher, among other story. In his time in Rome, he shared
(mostly) with an Argentine Fabio Capello decisions.
Although Leandro Cufre were Argentines Walter Samuel
and Guardiola struck much contact with Gabriel Batistuta
in his short period in Rome. Especially on the bench,
because Capello quickly returned to their sources. Thus,
in the preseason he had said that Rome should play
something else that had to pass the ball, and there was
Pep holder. Everything ran and moved around. It was the
preseason in Egypt and Pep sending in a team of
Capello: something sounded weird. First defeats and
return to the sources: Capello and

catenaccio. And there Pep coincided with Batistuta,

Therefore, only they played the first matches of the Italian
Cup, the inconsequential for coach Fabio. Advanced
holders stood instances. Stuck on RAI television,
December 4, 2002, watching the Triestina-Roma,
something happened that caught my attention: a direct
free kick for Roma. It stands opposite Batistuta, Guardiola
is on your side, this is about and gestures, he explains
how you should hit that free kick and Argentine accepts: pu
goal. Bati

Pep and cuddled for long seconds, perhaps sharing the

long ordeal by Italian banks. Although this is a minor
detail, it was one who exhibited some of Pep coach.
Although already led his team with his captain's armband
at the Camp Nou, that day could be the debut of coach
Pep.

You know what Guardiola goalkeeper scored his only goal

in their World only played as a player? Yes, an Argentine.
Defending the colors of Bolivia, Carlos Trucco could not
stop the penalty
executed by Guardiola, in the Spain-Bolivia played in the

World Cup 1994. These or more

Matches can be
hatched yes the Pep-Argentina relationship
increases. They pull colors. You will will travel many
kilometers to installed in South America?
Will it serve its intervention to recover the romance of the
pass and the Argentine touch? It could cause a structural
change to reorganize the footballing identity?

Oranges, Catalonia and other pleasures

So far we have done a tour of four arbitrary possibilities

for national teams, we imagine an alleged future of Pep
there. Not to forget their interest and their relationship
with Italy, his dialogues with Arrigo Sacchi,

his friendship with Roberto Baggio ... Nor his

time in Mexico and his memory of
those lands. Once he declared that cultural miscegenation
of France made her even more good and that Paris is a
nice city to live with family. Nor should we forget his
admiration for the German league, their supporters and
their good lawn.

It would be poetic that could be coach Pep Netherlands. "I

feel it a lot because I was taught to play that way," Pep
said. Give the World Cup to oranges would do justice on
behalf of the team led by Rinus Michels, led by Johan
Cruyff. His friends in Holland it might help. It is the choice
that most would like to this platform, with permission from
the Catalan. And if there is recognition?
 Tinguis THAT SORT. WHAT
SORT tinguem

Tinguis that sort. that tinguem

sort

(Post in May 2012. Last match at the Camp Nou as first

team coach of Barcelona).

Just to have a bit of acid at such manifestation and

images of idolatry, each of you could remember which
was chosen to dismiss Josep Guardiola as a player in
June 2001. Music Someone selected "With or Without
You" by U2 as Pep simply he greeted an audience that
applauded and decorated a Camp Nou almost empty.
They were not times
trophies and yes elimination in Copa del Rey and a
season without titles.

Today, before a packed Nou Camp (Marcelo Bielsa is

right in claiming that they want to win, not because it
won?), Guardiola was fired as coach of the first team of
Barcelona. Some clear, cautious, to be his first stint as
team leader. Others recall that, according to Pep himself,
the second parts were never good.

Exciting and relevant celebration that other means will be

responsible for counting. But dear reader, do not be
overcome by fires of artifice. How many of these they say
and applaud today would look the other way if
centimeters
they had said something else. Because of Iniesta could
have not entered, and removed triplet. Or Peter Definition
in extremis. Would they tell today's legacy and good game?
I doubt it. Dignified, countercultural and magical team like
this
he had been slighted if the coin had come from
somewhere else. As he left, after 50 chances in the tie
against Chelsea. We know this Bielsa words: Flannel is
an impostor. "As unchecked why you won, how you
flattered to have won, not because they deserved to win
or the resource for which you won, I was always clear
that flannel, that's the term, is an impostor," said rosarino
in a talk to students in their last high school.

Just today should review why this Barcelona led by Pep

will remain in memory. And we must also provide for the
meticulous way and worked developed.

This site is visited many coaches. Now, tell me, sir coach
you are reading here, since when you feel as yours this
style and ideas that exhibited this team ?, what was done
in the early years of the decade
2000 ?, they always asked their defenses and leaving
from there to risk goalkeeper in the small area ?, will not
be trying to imitate something that does not feel that
flatters only for results? I say this because a few days ago
this style was labeled innocent. And years of decrepit. I
say this because it may be easier to do other things in the
field. And to make them must be the best in the world; It
can be, but above all we must be convinced and
courageous leader. This is the most rewarding legacy of
Guardiola. It caused and will cause most want to be. I feel
more and carried out. And the only applauds the outcome
will be marked once. Many teams and played by many
coaches felt four years. And now we see the persistence
and courage to follow the example. Someone had the
bright idea of ​changing DJ today to shift the Nou Camp.
"That tinguem sort" of Lluís Llach was what sounded while
everyone
Guardiola said goodbye. While Guardiola decides what to
do, we wish you good luck, from here we will accompany
you to win. And if you decide to refrain from ridiculous
footballing context, we get lucky enough to see in his
other legacy of courage and convictions. Tinguis that sort.
Tinguem that sort.
THE FUTURE, STAFF VIRTUAL AND
SYSTEMIC OFFICE

The future, staff virtual and

systemic office

The question was repeated in some stable site users Para

Guardiola. How will you continue now without Pep as
coach of Barcelona's first team? The last chapter is not
innocent. Because two or three links with national teams,
it would be very relevant for medium to fit into an
adventure tracking players from a given country. As a first
step, it was only a platform to publicize the style, then he
morphed into a platform for study and analysis,

surely Paradigma
Guardiola will modify its structure. Ever you thought of a st
virtual and why were gradually advancing visualizations
turn rivals Barcelona and concrete information, some
simulating the possible work of the coaching staff of
coaches Guardiola. It is prepared for this medium.

Fashionable several softwares, very technological and

innovative, looking to hit with arrows and thousands of
statistics from the middle always express the need for a
"systemic office" concept moving around a technical
office or "people- robots "who edit videos. In some parts
of Europe it is already clear, but it is necessary to give
this category to anyone who can be linked with any
technical coaching staff. A "office" to

service coaches
Main but commanded also for
coaches. From Paradigma Guardiola,
we intend to situate in that figure and we plan to follow in
the footsteps of Pep if you ever decide to retrain. From
that point we stop and try to persist in viewing parties and
in building analysis.

Analysis of international football, meanwhile, will be the

focus. There are teams and methodologies
which can resemble what
expressed in this work. So why we continue to analyze
and denoting concepts play in matches, leagues,
tournaments selected. As a team that made a break in
the recent history of football, there will be a before and
after and everyone who was moved by the team led by
Guardiola certainly try to implement some issues that
glimpsed. Getting everything ready for when Pep can
return to coaching a team or selection, will continue in
that way.
Pep offer published in some media, equivalent to study
players and match analysis and corresponding league.
French League, Premier League, selection anywhere in
the world, whatever comes. Within hours,

"Paradigma Guardiola" there will be

prepared to be the platform with more knowledge about
the possible future work of Pep. The blog will mutate in
this regard and will continue. Although perhaps not all
study made public for obvious reasons, training and
ongoing training like axis serve in this aspect. For all
those who are still here and have gone through the whole
book, I express my gratitude for the attention shown. A
Guardiola, as a source of inspiration for so many coaches
and give strength to continue studying and analyzing so
that before imagined spaces, made it appear incalculable
satisfaction. For all this are taken and any profession of a
worthily, they are doing what they say and feel and having
nonnegotiable convictions.
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