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The Barcelona Legacy

Guardiola, Mourinho and the Fight For Football's Soul

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The Barcelona Legacy

By: Jonathan Wilson
Narrated by: Charlie Anson
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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 '90s: 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 an audiobook 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.

©2018 Jonathan Wilson (P)2018 Bonnier Publishing Coaching Football (Soccer) Sports History Sports Game Portugal
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Excellent reading. I would recommend it to any Football fan, in particular to those that love the legacy of J. Cruyff.

The Guardiola/Mourinho rivarly is beautifully explained here, although if you are a fan of the latter you might not like this book as much as I did being a fan of the former

thoroughly enjoyable

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This book is more 21st Century than other books from Jonathan Wilson.
This book does highlight how the Barcelona has impacted lots of football that is played across Europe and especially PL.
Good book, Would recommend.

A great Wilson Classic

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I couldn’t stop listening! Brilliant insight to all things ‘Total Football’. Learned things I never knew. Brilliant listen

Total Football

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