Pep Guardiola: An evolution through Barcelona, Bayern and City – The Athletic

Pep Guardiola celebrates his 50th birthday on Monday, and fairly seismic things tend to happen on milestones like this.

When he turned 20 he established himself in the Barcelona first team, when he was 30 he left the Nou Camp, and when he was 40 he won the Champions League with his boyhood club at Wembley.

Since then he has spread his footballing message around the world, and recently revealed he is ready to stay in the dugout for longer than he had ever intended.

To work out what could possibly come next, we need to realise what has come before.

This is the story of Guardiola at 20, 30, 40 and 50, with a little guesswork on the future and what he might be doing at 60 too

That winning personality, the character to organise things, he had that since he was little, Albert Benaiges tells The Athletic.

Hes changed because hes grown as a person, as a coach, like everybody, but in certain...

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