The Barcelona Legacy: Guardiola, Mourinho and the Fight For Football's Soul
Aug 2018 · Kings Road Publishing
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Manchester, 2018: Pep Guardiola and José Mourinho lead their teams out to face each other in the 175th Manchester derby. They are first and second in the Premier League, but today only one man can come out on top. It is merely the latest instalment in a rivalry that has contested titles, traded insults and crossed a continent, but which can be traced back to a friendship that began almost 25 years ago.
Barcelona, late-nineties: Johan Cruyff's Dream Team is disintegrating and the revolutionary manager has departed, but what will come next will transform the future of football. Cruyff's style has changed the game, and given birth to a generation of thinkers: men like Ronald Koeman, Luis Enrique, Laurent Blanc, Frank de Boer, Louis van Gaal, and Cruyff's club captain Pep Guardiola and a young translator, José Mourinho.
The Barcelona Legacy is a book in part about tactics, about how the theories that underpin the modern game were forged by Cruyff and his successors, but also about the people and personalities who gathered at the Camp Nou for what was effectively the greatest coaching seminar in history, about their friendships and rivalries and, in one case, an apocalyptic falling out that continues to shape the game today.
Barcelona, late-nineties: Johan Cruyff's Dream Team is disintegrating and the revolutionary manager has departed, but what will come next will transform the future of football. Cruyff's style has changed the game, and given birth to a generation of thinkers: men like Ronald Koeman, Luis Enrique, Laurent Blanc, Frank de Boer, Louis van Gaal, and Cruyff's club captain Pep Guardiola and a young translator, José Mourinho.
The Barcelona Legacy is a book in part about tactics, about how the theories that underpin the modern game were forged by Cruyff and his successors, but also about the people and personalities who gathered at the Camp Nou for what was effectively the greatest coaching seminar in history, about their friendships and rivalries and, in one case, an apocalyptic falling out that continues to shape the game today.
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Fernando Romero Nuñez
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September 24, 2020
This is a good book. I enjoyed it. But it should come with a warning as it's not an investigation or an analysis but an FC Barcelona propaganda piece. Mourinho, one of the all time greatest coaches of the world, is painted as petty, self-doubting, devious character, when not a absolute cruel dictator. Cruyff, who was as much a prickly character as Mourinho, is instead portrayed as a genius and a savant. And Guardiola is always the good guy; no out of place comment, no high horse preaching, no cowardly behaviour, just a pure and unrelenting artist of football coaching. Wilson even twists and turns until he makes a match were Barça were forgiven four different penalties not as bad. It's a good, well-written book. Just not a serious or unbiased one.
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About the author
Jonathan Wilson is the editor of The Blizzard. He writes regularly for the Guardian, Sports Illustrated and World Soccer and his work also appears in the Independent and the New Statesman. He is the critically acclaimed author of a series of sports titles, including Inverting The Pyramid: A History Of Football Tactics, which was football book of the year in the UK and Italy and was shortlisted for the William Hill Sports Book Of The Year.
Follow Jonathan Wilson on Twitter at https://twitter.com/jonawils
Follow Jonathan Wilson on Twitter at https://twitter.com/jonawils
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