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All Guardiol teams win because he skillfully knows how to debug them

No, but we still need to finally understand what is happening in the bald and shaved, oblong head of the Catalan named Pep, who, as if magic wins, wins the championships of different countries and does not reveal the secret of his continuous success, so we are bewildered to be bewildered and ask ourselves: “How? Well, how does he do it? "

There are coaches who put their branded football with the teams with vivid distinctive features. Klopp has pressure, aggression, expression and drive, reaching ecstasy. Simeone has a recipe for impenetrable concrete and the ability to squeeze the teeth in the struggle. Zidan has a classic thoroughness of the case.

And with Guardiola? What does Guardiola have, who silently stands on the edge and looks at the game with his black southern eyes and sees in it something that we all do not see?

Sir Fergusson, for nothing that the Scot, put a typical English football, in which the edges work like pistons, and the center is like a sledgehammer. He relied on England and tradition. Magat, tyrant and sadist, forced the players to ski and loaded them with races and jerks so that they torn after training. Of course, in it, in it, who came to the president of the club, who came to look at the training: “What have stood up! Go to the office! " - lived the spirit of German discipline and the Prussian barracks. Ranieri, humiliated and almost destroyed by failures, coincided with the team and location of the stars in his only great season. This can be understood. But Guardiola, who won the Championship of Spain three times, three times in Germany and twice England, where does he take his game, what does he relied on and with which stars he coincides constantly?

It was he who in Barcelona came up with playing the possession of the ball. We must take the ball and not give it to the opponent. See how simple. While we have the ball, nothing threatens us, and we can do whatever we want.

This philosophy is now understandable to everyone, but this is only now, when Guardiola teams have learned to make five hundred passes per match and own the ball 80% of the time.

And after all, there is another theory, dating back to Lobanovsky, who believed that the percentage of owning the ball has no connection with the result of the match. In the so -called “visiting model” of Lobanovsky, the initiative and the ball were given to the opponent, and the victory was achieved by one or two counterattacks rehearsed to automatism. Lobanovsky, this anti-Gvardiol, would be outraged by a long horizontal difference that Barcelona practiced. But she defeated everyone.

Mourinho, the original sort of original, also believes that the possession of the ball is an extra headache. If we have the ball, we have problems. Let them have better problems. Better they are mistaken, and we will wait for their mistakes.

But the fact is that Guardiola teams are not mistaken. Or they are almost not mistaken. Here we get to the point of his game, to his methodology and practice, to his root thoughts. He is not a great philosopher of a game like Michels who came up with total football with his continuous movement and a constant change of positions; He is not a crazy motivator, like a clop, who knows how to inspire his people for a feat; But he is an outstanding technologist who knows how to collect and configure impeccable football mechanisms.

When you watch how Manchester City plays, you feel the unthinkable, almost inhuman debugging of all maneuvers.

These are not eleven players, these are eleven people who have grown into one super -social, running about twenty -two legs. These are not eleven brains, even those who think one thought, no, this is one supermine that controls all the complex maneuvers of the team. And at the same time there is no depersonalty of players, the company is a company, de Bruyne is de Bruyne, they retain themselves and are still part of the perfect machine that was invented by Guardiola.

I look with pleasure not only at the goals of Aguero, but also at how it is built into the team game. Like masterfully Kun Aguero, Messi's friend, hides himself in a game in the zone of invisibility, to suddenly break out of them to the desired point of the goal! This Guardiola taught him.

How good a young Zinchenko, about whom, however, was strange to find out that Pep had taken him to Manchester City. Why is he so good? Now we see what: he definitely stood in the place intended for him, stood as a glove. Guardiola knew this in advance.

There is football with national features, it is so interesting and pleasant to look at him. The game "Ajax" is filled with the wind from the sea and Dutch bohemian artistry. The sailors Jacob Lemer and Wilhelm Shauten, although they did not know football in the seventeenth century, would understand her. In the game of Real Madrid there is the greatness of Spain, its royal tradition. The Spanish Karls and Ferdinanda would have been puffed up for Real Madrid (but Cervantes - for Barcelona). And the very last of the teams of the English Premier League breathes England, lives in England and shows what England is. But they are not the teams of Guardiola. They are deprived of the national. Moving from the country to the country, he does not turn to the roots and traditions and does not seek supports in them;

He brings with him the perfect technology of the game, which should work even in Spain, even in Germany, even in England. And she works.

In the global world, computers do not have nationality, technology spreads without borders, and democracy is a universal motor of society. Also, Guardiola football, it belongs not to any country, but the entire modern post-industrial civilization of microchips and bright clothes in which the borders are canceled, the contacts are instantaneous, and the traditional state is ridiculous as the armored train of Kim Jong-un.

It was strange to look at Bavaria Guardiola, who played a small pass and in some places resembled Barcelona. I did not like this Bavaria. There was no Bavaria in it, there was no munich in it, there was no Germany in it, there was no harsh German tunge in it, which was once in Mueller and Rummeniga. It seemed to be lower, softer, more plastic and south. From the team, it was as if they took out her original soul, her human filling, and inserted the precisely working mechanism of Guardiola. But this "Bavaria" won.

All Guardiola teams win because he skillfully knows how to debug and configure them. This is his secret. Debugging as an act of creation, assembly as creativity, finding equilibrium and the sophisticated density of the game as the main skill of a coach, which is called a coach only in the old fashioned way, but is actually a demiurge of time, a tempo designer and a system architect of lines.

Guardiola, a debugging game, closer to the debugger of the program code than to the archaic coach, screaming players: “Click! Add! Beat! "

And Guardiola, by the way, does not scream. He silently stands on the eyebrow in his long gray sweater, silently looks with black eyes and silently absorbs what is happening to everyone. The account, of course, is important, very important, but it is not important, because Guardiola delays the game in any count, even with a score of 6-0 against Watford. What else is there to configure when the victory is obvious? But he calls sterling to himself and speaks with him, in words twisting something in him and performing a fine setting of his actions.