Coach Pep Guardiola and Luis Enrique – ready to take everything on yourself – Süddeutsche.de

• They played as a team, were trained together to coach, were colleagues. Pep Guardiola and Barcelona coach Luis Enrique know your way
• In the semifinals of the Champions League, they are now opponents , What does this mean?
• The statistics on the Champions League is all about.

Javier Cáceres

The date on which Pep Guardiola in the sports city of the Spanish Football Federation near Madrid took its course for professional trainers, Mariano Moreno is still fresh in our minds. Because he had it not expected that Monday. Moreno was so convinced that Guardiola would not come, that he thought it was a mistake, as the receptionist assured him, Guardiola had his room related.

“He had resigned earlier because he in Mexico at Dorados de Sinaola still had to deny one last game. Only if they won, they would hold the class, “said Moreno recalls. But then the game had been brought forward, Guardiola rushed to the next plane, without dissolving the little household, which he had: “The things I can pick it up later,” Guardiola told

The episode is good the coach educators Moreno. in two ways as an example: It records, he says that Guardiola was ready to take everything upon himself to become a coach. And it shows that he was not inferior in another: Luis Enrique, who is currently the FC Barcelona trained and now in the semifinals of the Champions League meets to Guardiola. “Enrique even called from a triathlon trip in Australia, to make sure that he missed any time: ‘Stop! I merely a place free, Mister, I come’, he used to say,” says Moreno. Even Enrique was finally there on time and pressed with his former national team and Barça colleagues Guardiola to school.

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Whether Pep Guardiola and Luis Enrique are among the most privileged students in recent decades is difficult to say, says Moreno. In any case, they would belong to a generation of cadets that come with humble curiosity in the elite school in Las Rozas until today; so is the Trabant town where the association operates. “The days since appeared earlier professionals and thought her experience would be enough, are long gone,” said Moreno, who has pressed his theoretical knowledge in many scientific papers and more than a dozen training scientific books. Still, he is not to be found in the Encyclopedia of the presence, at Wikipedia.

This fits perfectly to someone who has instigated a revolution in the Pacific. Clandestine, so to speak. Moreno was in 1980 joined the Association after he Atlético Madrid, Burgos CF, Sporting Gijón, Celta de Vigo and CD Tenerife coached. He was part of the coaching team that failed in the World Cup at home in 1982 and found in the analysis that the Spanish football lacked a foundation. “But above all, went to and lost to our quality. The force was formative for our football, it was much running and the ball hidden,” says Moreno.

The paradigm shift, which he initiated and for three decades an entire generation of coaches taught and ball possession presented in the foreground. This bore fruit. Before 1986, there had not been a single junior team of Spain, who had won a title; after that year brought together a total of twenty EM, a world title and an Olympic gold medal for the junior employees. Over the years, Spanish football coach were in the global soccer market coveted labor. Currently 125 coaches abroad operate worldwide, Bayern coach Guardiola is the most prominent emigrant. Luis Enrique also can refer to foreign experience: He was, however, only moderately successful, active AS Roma

This was after he – at times of Guardiola as head coach – by 2008 to 2010, second team of FC. Barcelona had trained. Then, as now emphasized both their friendship. Entirely free of frictions cooperation was not. The player who pulled up from Guardiola Luis Enriques second team to train with the senior squad were allowed, be sure that they would not play the following weekend at the B-Team. Enrique familiar only players who had worked during the week with him

The success of his teams was more important to him than the global interest of a club, of him -. After his hometown club Sporting Gijón – only the second favorite is. Guardiola took down the; not entirely without rancor, but also without complaint. He himself had learned it at Barça under his mentor Johan Cruyff different. The episode is good as indication that Enrique anyone gives anything. Not even friends. He and Guardiola embroidered similar. In team travel frequently exchanged books.

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In the basic ideas of their football, they are similar. This is due not only to the common courses attended, but also because both played together for five years at FC Barcelona – from 1996, when the club was still under the influence of Johan Cruyff. Moreno says that it was foreseeable that Guardiola and Luis Enrique successful coach would be. When the Bureau of FC Barcelona was not sure if it should really entrust the novice Guardiola as coach, inquiries experience has been obtained even with Moreno.

“The lack of experience was in my eyes no problem at all. Need you especially if you need to keep teams from relegation. With very high quality teams like FC Barcelona you need a knack to keep the cabin together. Pep has, “says Moreno.

Whether Guardiola and Enrique were the year’s best, Moreno will not reveal; the confidentiality of the notes is sacred to him. In one way or another publication, however, to read that Arantxa Del Puerto, the only woman of course, still have done better. But even they do not want to divulge that. “All I know is that I had very good grades,” she says, “and that they have the nervousness that I had taken. They treated me like everyone else in the class.”