Everyone copies his style, but Pep Guardiola imitated the style of a historic coach

Pep Guardiola learned from Ricardo Lavolpe the famous "Lavolpiana" exit, which consisted of going out with the ball dominated from the goalkeeper even if there was pressure, something characteristic of Pep: "For La Volpe the intention of going out with the ball from behind was different. It was obligatory to go out playing. It is nothing more than the players advancing with the ball together and at the same time. If only one does it there is no reward, like the couples do," Guardiola confessed in a Spanish media.

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Guardiola had the opportunity to play for Dorados de Sinaloa in Mexico, where he learned technical aspects that in the future would help him form his philosophy as a coach. Nowadays, possession and leaving with the ball dominated is an example to be followed by several coaches worldwide, however, few knew how it all started for Pep and who his teacher was.

There is something that is true, no one is born knowing, and Guardiola had to learn it from someone. Today, many consider him the best coach in the world, not so much because of the titles he has won, especially with Manchester City and FC Barcelona, ​​but because of his style of play. Pep's style is one of the most marked because the team he plays for makes him play in a similar way.

Now, there are many coaches who prefer not to copy this style. The former Liverpool coach, Jürgen Klopp, once stated that if football were as Guardiola suggests, he would have followed another sport. The problem is that excess position tends to make football boring for the spectator, at least when Guardiola led FC Barcelona, ​​he had between 70 and 80% of the possession in his games and that made the human eye tired.

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At Bayern Munich possession did not work for Guardiola

In the 2013-2014 season, Real Madrid led by Carlo Ancelotti destroyed Pep Guardiola's possession with Bayern Munich. In the Champions League match the match was 4-0 in favor of the Spanish. Pep never gave up possession, even when they were losing, and in the end that cost him the match. Ancelotti proposed a more direct and faster match, added to the fact that Cristiano Ronaldo was on fire, it completely ended the Spaniard's illusions that season, costing him the exit from Bayern.