Pep Confidential: The Inside Story of Pep Guardiola's First Season at Bayern Munich

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Birlinn, 16. okt. 2014 - 432 sider

'Access inside the changing room and behind the scenes that any journalist or writer would kill for - Perarnau's insights are astonishing' - Graham Hunter

'Write about everything you see. Be as critical as you like' - Pep Guardiola to Marti Perarnau, summer 2013

Marti Perarnau was given total access to Bayern Munich during season 2013-14. This book represents the first time in the modern era that a writer has got this close to one of the elite teams of world football. At the invitation of Pep Guardiola, he shadowed the Catalan, his staff and his superstar players during training and on matchdays. Bayern smashed domestic records on their way to the double, but were humiliated by Real Madrid in the Champions League semi-final. Perarnau was with them every step of the way. Perarnau is with Guardiola as he is courted by the world's greatest clubs during his sabbatical in New York. We hear Guardiola explain in detail the radical tactical moves which transform Bayern's season and reprogramme the players who will win the World Cup with Germany.Perarnau talks exclusively and in fascinating detail with players such as Arjen Robben, Manuel Neuer, Philipp Lahm, Thiago Alcantara and Bastian Schweinsteiger.

Pep Confidential is much more than the story of a season - it is also a lasting portrait of one of the greatest coaches in sport.

 

Indhold

List of Illustrations
Part One Time Patience Passion
They will be at the Vanguard of European Football for the Next Five Years
Leo Its Pep Can you come over? Now Please
Do you see Lahms Potential?
The Idea is to Dominate the Ball
We Dont have a Messi or a Ronaldo But we have the Right Collective
Who are our Unstoppable Guys? Ribéry and Robben
For 80 Minutes we Played Perfect Football The Best Football Ive seen in my Life
Ifanyone would Prefer me not to make the Decisions No Problem You Decide whos Going to Play
Im not Saying my Way is Better Its Just my Way
Diego I Love You
Put the Good Players in the Midfield Thats my Idea and Im Going to Stick with it
The Whole Club has told me that Franck wants to Talk to me I want to Talk to him too
Excellence is Like a Bubble You can Look for it But it only Appears from Time to Time
Mistakes Come when you Relax

Theyll Climb that Mountain 10 Times in a Row
Borussia Deserved to win
Part Two The First Trophy
Javi Look at Dante Look at Dante The Line The Line
Were Trying to do this Right Not Just Win Titles
Bring the Ball Out Well and you will Play Well
I Loathe all that Passing That Tiquitaca
Lahm The Guy is Fucking Exceptional
Pam Pam Thats our Style of Play
Bayern were like something out of a Movie Today
Lads I dont know how to take Penalties Ive Never Taken One in My Life But heres the Best Penalty Taker in the World
A Prodigious Year
Right Now Im not the best in the world
Hoeness is the Heart and soul of this Club Hes Vital to me
We are all Hiding Behind the Coach
Gentlemen this is Tiquitaca and it is Shit
The Treasure
Lahm? hes as FootballIntelligent as Iniesta
Here we are Again Another Final
Part Four The League in March
In Six Months here Pep has Tried more things than in Four Years at Barça
Im Going to have to make some Radical Changes
Perfect Football is Damn Difficult to Achieve
I Play for Pep Guardiola
Just as well we had Manu Without that Hand I DonT know where wed be
Uli is Our Heart Its Hard to Imagine Bayern without him
Part Five Falling Down and Getting Back up Again
The Essence of Football is Working out the Best way to attack your Opponents
Arjens a Beast
We have to Remember that if we dont Run were Nothing
A Complete FuckUp
Mea Culpa
Javi And Robben in Defence and Attack
Bloom in the Glow of Happiness
The Kid and the Captain
Epilogue A Last Word from

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Marti Perarnau, former Spanish Olympiad turned journalist, is a renowned football analyst. He writes for a number of Spanish newspapers and runs the hugely popular Perarnau Magazine blog. He lives in Barcelona.

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