Manchester, 2018: Pep Guardiola and José Mourinho lead their teams
out to face each other in the 175th Manchester derby. They are first
and second in the Premier League, but today only one man can come out
on top. It is merely the latest instalment in a rivalry that has
contested titles, traded insults and crossed a continent, but which
can be traced back to a friendship that began almost 25 years ago.
Barcelona, late-nineties: Johan Cruyff's Dream Team is disintegrating
and the revolutionary manager has departed, but what will come next
will transform the future of football. Cruyff's style has changed the
game, and given birth to a generation of thinkers: men like Ronald
Koeman, Luis Enrique, Laurent Blanc, Frank de Boer, Louis van Gaal,
and Cruyff's club captain Pep Guardiola and a young translator, José
Mourinho. The Barcelona Legacy is a book in part about tactics, about
how the theories that underpin the modern game were forged by Cruyff
and his successors, but also about the people and personalities who
gathered at the Camp Nou for what was effectively the greatest
coaching seminar in history, about their friendships and rivalries
and, in one case, an apocalyptic falling out that continues to shape
the game today.
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ISBN
9781911600718
Publisert
2019
Utgiver
Vendor
BLINK Publishing
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Digital bok
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