Pep Guardiola is widely regarded as a genius tactician in the sport. Throughout his 16-year illustrious managerial career, he has led some of Europe’s top-tier clubs in the continent’s premier leagues, including Barcelona and Bayern Munich, and is currently plying his trade with Manchester City.
Guardiola has won every single accolade at the club level, also clinching the highest level of club competition, the FIFA Club World Cup, with Barcelona. Recently, the Spaniard has expressed his interest in taking up an international coaching position.
Manchester City boss Pep Guardiola was recently crowned FIFA The Best Men’s Coach 2023 for his extraordinary feat with the Premier League champions. He steered the English outfit from the sidelines to lift their first-ever UEFA Champions League title in the club’s entire history, completing a historic continental treble-winning campaign.
The former Barcelona boss is largely credited with transforming the Sky Blues into the world’s best club in recent times, demonstrating complete dominance on both the continental and domestic levels with some of the most elite names in the squad. They are flying high in the current campaign as well, aiming to defend their treble.
Recently, the 52-year-old manager revealed his interest in experiencing the management of a national team at the World Cup or Euro. Throughout his illustrious managerial career, he has only been in charge of club teams and has never managed a national team.
He said, “I would like to train a national team for a World Cup or a European Championship. I would like that. I don’t know who would want me! To work for a national team, they have to want you, just like a club. I never thought about it like that. I would like to have the experience of living through a World Cup, or a Euro, or a Copa America, or whatever it is.”
Wayne Rooney expresses wish to become Guardiola’s deputy
Manchester United icon Wayne Rooney recently opened up about the friction that impacted his strong relationship with former boss Sir Alex Ferguson during a podcast. Additionally, the forward expressed his desire to work as an assistant under Pep Guardiola, his former club’s city rival’s manager, whom he has lauded as the best manager in the world.
“It depends on whether I’d ever be an assistant – if Pep Guardiola comes in and asks me to be his assistant, you’d walk there. You see what Mikel Arteta is doing now at Arsenal, and I strongly believe a lot of that success stems from what he learned under Guardiola,” said Rooney.
Rooney emphasized the significant impact that working alongside Pep Guardiola had on Mikel Arteta’s managerial performance at Arsenal, expressing his desire to learn from the Spanish tactician.
