‘We misplaced the primary league recreation of the season, then drew with Racing Santander. Spontaneously, I made a decision to go to Pep’s workplace to reassure him. “Don’t fear,” I advised him, “every little thing might be advantageous”‘: Andres Iniesta opens up his early Guardiola pep speak

When Barcelona promoted a 37-year-old Pep Guardiola from B workforce boss to first-team supervisor as Frank Rijkaard’s substitute in 2008, solely essentially the most giddy Culer would have predicted a treble-winning marketing campaign and the daybreak of one of many membership’s best eras of their historical past.

However that’s precisely what the rookie coach delivered, as he started a first-team teaching profession that has delivered 32 main trophies to date, with Guardiola, regardless of Manchester Metropolis’s current struggles, set to go down in historical past as one of many recreation’s greatest-ever coaches when all is alleged and achieved.