How Good Pep Guardiola's Barcelona Really Was! 

Damn that’s how I started watching football too. Saw Messi for the first time in the 2010 WC. It’s crazy that in that moment I knew he was gonna be my life idol

The first futball i watched was 2010 spains world cup run (mother in law is from spain) and really didnt get into futball too much again until 2022 so i missed some great futball

Everyone thinks City plays the best football am like naa you need to watch Barcelona during that era. Dang' it was somethin else

Lol the supposed “best team ever” needed the help of the refs to get past Chelsea in 2009 and to get past vs Arsenal in 2011. Without the refs, they don’t even reach the final.

​@@shahzadiranistfu u stupid asf that wasn't anything to do with the ref, Sometimes you can actually misjudge what u see

@@shahzadiranithey were so very clearly the best team. Or did you not watch what they did to one of the best Prem teams in both champions league finals, twice. They’re undisputedly the best team .

@@Futballr420 read what i said again. yes they had two good nights in the two finals vs United but if you do NOT deserve to go through the round of 16, means you are NOT a deserved winner. It's like Sir Alex's team was setup to beat all teams in the world except Barcelona. He refused to sit back and play on the counter attack vs Barcelona in a UCL final, which was perfect for Barcelona's tactics. But if Sir Alex had swallowed his pride and used the 2008 semi-final tactics, that 2009 United team would have beaten Barcelona 7 out of 10 times.

You call it Pep's Barcelona i call it Xavi, Iniesta, Busquets Barcelona notice I've not even add Messi cause i think even without him they would have still won things Spain is a testament to this, absolutely dominating World Football..

​@@tytheeblaiseR without Messi what are you saying😂

​​@@tytheeblaiseR That was Pep's Barcelona. What happened when Pep left, immediately the following season, Barca took their biggest CL humiliation against Bayern where they were thrashed 7-0 on aggregate. When Pep was still the Barca manager, Barca used to beat Bayern but after he left, Barca slowly became Bayern's bitch. So yeah, the term Pep's Barcelona remains valid.

@@ziminiesta4225 Just like how Spain dominated football that Barcelona team would have still done it without Messi.

@@thuo1000 When did Pep's Barca beat Bayern in the UCL?? And you have to understand the events that happened during that period when Tito was sick, Barcelona lost form I've never seen Barca players give up like that they really felt hurt by what their manager was going through and as you know he later died. When you have someone you love and you know something bad is inevitably gonna happen your mind will never be steady. They still won a treble and dominated La Liga and Copa Del Rey for years, nothing really changed Much until Iniesta started to decline infact Barcelona's fall started when Xavi couldn't do what he was doing anymore, and when Iniesta and Busquets too fell off Messi's numbers reduced too even under Pep they would have struggled.

Exactly. You'd be watching it, wondering "What the heck did they just do there??"

We hear you! We do want to make a video detailing Cruyff's life and his managerial nous, and especially the Barca dream team.

@@saltyfootball That's basically the eighth main chapter of his career. First came his years as a player with Ajax, immediately telling the older players were to walk/run. The role of Rinus Michels is usually vastly overrated abroad (speaking from Holland). The main thing Michels taught Cruijff was discipline. Not football. Total Football started with Cruijff (in response to the then dominating Catenaccio), not Michels. In this period, he also started playing for the Dutch team. (2). Then went to Barcelona as a player (3). Then the world cup of 1974. Again, Michels' role is overrated abroad. Michels needed Cruijff in Ajax, Barcelona, Dutch team, and in Washington. Playing the other side of the Atlantic (4), return to Ajax (5), then play for Feyenoord for one year and winning the double in 1984 (6), then becoming Ajax coach (7) and only then becoming Barcelona coach (8). And as such, Michels blocked Cruijff becoming the coach for the Dutch team twice, for the world cups of 1990 and 1994, because he was afraid Cruijff would surpass Michels' achievement of winning the Euro 1988, with nearly all key players at some point having worked with or under Cruijff. So that Cruijff never coached the Dutch team, is entirely because of Michels' jealousy. Later on, Laporta was Cruijff's personal lawyer and friend and he won the election as Barca president backed by Cruijff. At Cruijff's recommendation, he appointed Rijkaard with his assistant Henk ten Cate. (Both had one Dutch parent and one parent from Suriname btw). Won the champions league, Barcelona's 2nd. Then Guardiola, who had been in charge of the B team at Cruijff's recommendation, now became head coach, again at Cruijff's recommendation. Because Laporta basically dd what Cruijff told him to do. (Unfortunately, during his second period as president, Cruijff is no longer there. I think Koeman would have been treated very differently by Laporta if Cruijff had still been looking over his shoulder.) Anyway, don't rely on wiki doing reasearch.

He promoted business and played with Xavi, The fact is that his play style instilled on those players hence the success stop trying to downplay his managerial brilliance

7 Barca players were in that Spanish side that won the World Cup and even German coach Joachim Loew said that Spain played the Barca style so it wasn’t easy to beat them

Even in the El Clasico where Barca beat RM 5-0 , Messi was constantly fouled and kicked but refs turned a blind eye.. it was obvious that RM could not stop Barca without cheating and committing fouls .. Penaldo fans can gloat about many things but their nose job, Botox diva 💁‍♀️ Cristiana Penaldo is no where near Messi .. The same with Jose ‘park the bus’ Boreinho , a toxic manager who is no where near Pep

Most important move❤

Thank you so much 😀

With the exception of Bouquets, those players were all there but still finished third place in the league the season before he arrived.

Indeed, Barça 2008-2012 were gifted by an incredible crop of excellent players coming from the academy. Also Txiki Begiristain as technical director brought in talent (Abidal , Tierry Henry, Villa, etc ) to fill the positions missing.

Those players to be in their prime,needed a great coach(Pep) in this case was there for them, there are many players who do not reach their prime bcz they don't have a great coach to make them reach that level,,so now agree that it's the contribution of Pep that made them reach their prime

Will surely do! Stay tuned!

We do have a video on Man City's rise that covers Pep's involvement, and making a video about Pep's career. But we'd love to make a video on Pep's Man City, so putting a pin in it.

False 9 for me, they basically completely changed the game when messi started doing that

@@johnychrist5475 Great point.

False 9 when he scored 91 goals in a calendar year

Because he destroyed your favorite teams right 😢😂

No mate, it's because of all the passes. That is why he made it boring. If you like to watch a game like that then🤣🤣

Cap

Pep has more trophies

@@michael4239half of them thanks to the refs or breaching doping regulations or breaching financial fair play rules lol. Sir Alex and Jose > Pep

Now he has.

Ask pep to play his football with inter 2010 squad. The we will talk. It’s all good when u manage a team of Spain golden generation, Messi, Kdb with billions of money spent 😂. Mourinho won with Porto, inter, Chelsea. Real Madrid was the only elite club he managed

@@mahadevansubramanian118 delusional inter had a crazy squad and so what happen to Chelsea , man united 😂😂😂😂

Because Barca was better . Simple

This was a video on Pep's Barca covering his 4 years there, so mentioning Bayern that did it 10 years after was beyond the scope of this one. Maybe in future we'll do one on Bayern as well.

yeah Bayern also won the sextuple... but in much weaker weak which is bundesliga plus german league cup !!there is no comparesment as la liga back then was simply the best league in the world!!

weaker league

... maybe because football based only on very german vitues ain't so much fun to watch ?

It's not who best him it's how he his mentality and team change football, He also lost to other team's does it make those team a better team

@@alexandermccoy2260 some of these people are just idiots when you see them make a comment bro,they know nothing about football

Mourinho lost to other teams

You are just jealous why bring mourinho to this

Inter Milan beat Barça due to a goal that was offside and the help of a volcano in iceland that closed the air space. I did the trip from London to Milan by bus, 23 hours via Paris. FC Barcelona players also had to do the trip to Milan by bus , 12hrs on the road. That affected their performance. In Barcelona the referee disallowed a goal by Bojan at the last minute that would had meant Inter Milan defeat and Barça progressing to the final. The referee signaled "handball". The TV repeat didn't show a handball prior to Bojan scoring from outside the area.,