Introducing... Sporting Giants - Pep Guardiola

Football Daily

BBC

Soccer, Sports

4.3 • 4.6K Ratings

🗓️ 15 February 2024

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

In this new podcast series Steve Crossman and Guillem Balague explore the life and career of Pep Guardiola. Told from the perspective of former Barcelona teammates Ronald Koeman, Albert Ferrer, Jordi Cruyff and eventual Director of Football Txiki Begiristain - Episode 1 is the ultimate origin story. Journey from the streets of Santpedor to Barca’s world famous La Masia academy and Camp Nou and find out how Pep’s playing days almost ended prematurely and how the legendary Johan Cruyff shaped his footballing philosophy. This is a BBC Sport Production for BBC Sounds and Radio 5 Live.

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0:00.0	Before you listen to this BBC podcast I want to tell you why I love podcasting.
0:04.6	Hi my name's Tommy Dixon and I make podcast for the BBC. I'm a big fan of stories
0:09.8	always loved a good book but when I started commuting for my first job, I discovered
0:14.0	podcasts. I was blown away about how a creative idea and the right mixture of sounds
0:18.6	could take you into a whole new world full of incredible stories. You know, the type that
0:22.4	make you go, wow. And that kind of inspired me to give it a go myself,
0:26.3	which to cut a long story short led to a BBC training scheme and a whole new career given other people that exact same feeling.
0:33.0	So if you want to hear amazing stories that make you go wow like I did, they're just a tap or a click
0:37.3	away on BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts.
0:45.2	This is Sporting Giants, Pep Guardiola.
0:48.4	Episode 1, a bit of bread.
0:52.1	Shay Zeus in behind here, and he's looped it over the goalkeeper and what it for Manchester City and taking them to a record.
0:59.0	100 points.
1:01.0	He's done something that no other city manager has ever done.
1:05.0	He's brought a brand of football to the Premier League that we've never seen before.
1:09.0	It's been sparkling.
1:10.0	When I faced his team, for me was the best manager in the world you know in terms of
1:14.4	tactical display in terms of little details in terms of having possession creating
1:20.2	Massey headed all by Ge through this could be a first off pick
1:25.2	into the best the a fantastic ship over al Maria so unputed so brilliant magnificent
1:32.0	Messy his legacy has been played out in every football pitch in England every Sunday morning.
1:40.0	Pannada, Silver, Cross, shouts for handball and then roughly.
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