Pep Guardiola is a Spanish professional football coach and a former player. Guardiola was born 18 January 1971 and is currently manager of Manchester City. Guardiola is known as one of the best players of his generation, he was creative and technically gifted midfielder. He played for Barcelona most of his career and was part of the "Dream Team" that won the club’s first European Cup in 1992, and four La Liga titles from 1991 to 1994. He later captained the team from 1997 to 2001. He played also for Brescia and Roma in Italy, Al-Ahli in Qatar, and Dorados de Sinaloa in Mexico while training to be a manager. While playing in Italy, he served a four-month ban for a positive drug test.
In 2007 Guardiola retired as a player and began to managing full time. He became coach of Barcelona B, and in 2008 he was took over the first-team. In his first season as manager, Guardiola guided Barcelona winning La Liga, the Copa del Rey and the UEFA Champions League. With those achivements Guardiola became the youngest manager to win the Championsleague. He kept on winning titles with Barcelona and won three Supercopa de Espana, two more La Liga titles, UEFA Champions League, two UEFA Super Cup, two FIFA Club World Cup.
After these great years with Barcelona Guardiola joined Bayern Munich in the 2013-14 season. In his first season at the club, Guardiola won the Bundesliga, the DFB-Pokal, the UEFA Super Cup and the FIFA Club World Cup. He won seven trophies during his time at Bayern, winning the Bundesliga all three seasons he was there, including two domestic doubles.
As a manager, Guardiola has won 23 trophies since the start of his managing career, making him one of the most successful managers in world football. Guardiola also holds the record for the most consecutive league wins in La Liga, Bundesliga and the Premier League.
In 2016 Guardiola signed to a three-year contract to Manchester City. His first season with Manchester City he finished without any trophies for the first time in his managing carrer. The 2017-18 season has been great for Manchester United as they have a 18 point lead on Liverpool which sit in 2nd place. They have only lost one game in the Premier League this season out of 29 games. They can secure the title in the 33 round against Mancesster United.
Main source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pep_Guardiola
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