Job analysis of
Pep Guardiola
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Career
Pep Guardiola is a professional football coach and manager of the Manchester City Football
Club, England. Guardiola was a creative and technically gifted defensive midfielder who
usually played in a deep-lying playmaker's role. He spent the majority of his career with
Barcelona, forming a part of Johan Cruyff's Dream Team that won the club's first European
Cup in 1992, and four successive Spanish league titles from 1991 to 1994.
After retiring as a player, Guardiola briefly coached Barcelona B, and assumed control of the
first-team in 2008. In his first season as the first team manager, he guided Barcelona to the
treble of La Liga, Copa del Rey and UEFA Champions League. In doing so, Guardiola
became the youngest manager to win the aforementioned European competition. The
following campaign, he led Barcelona to four trophies, including winning his second Spanish
league title as manager. In 2011, after leading the club to another La Liga and Champions
League double, Guardiola was awarded the Catalan Parliament's Gold Medal, their highest
honour. The same year, he was also named the FIFA World Coach of the Year. In
Guardiola's final season at Barcelona, he again won four trophies, before departing in 2012.
He ended his four-year Barcelona stint with 14 honours, a club record.
After a sabbatical period, Bayern Munich announced Guardiola would join the club as
manager in 2013. In his first season at the club, he won four trophies, including the double of
Bundesliga and DFB-Pokal. Guardiola won seven trophies during his three-year tenure in
Germany; winning the Bundesliga every season he was there, as well as two domestic
doubles. He left the Bavarians for Manchester City in 2016, and guided them to a Premier
League title in his second campaign in charge, breaking numerous domestic records as the
team became the first to attain 100 league points.
About Manchester City
Manchester City Football Club is a football club based in Manchester, England, that
competes in the Premier League, the top flight of English football. Founded in 1880 as St.
Mark's (West Gorton), it became Ardwick Association Football Club in 1887 and Manchester
City in 1894.Manchester City entered the Football League in 1899, and won their first major
honour with the FA Cup in 1904. It had its first major period of success in the late 1960s,
winning the League, FA Cup and League Cup under the management of Joe Mercer and
Malcolm Allison. After losing the 1981 FA Cup Final, the club went through a period of
decline, culminating in relegation to the third tier of English football. Having regained their
Premier League status in the early 2000s, Manchester City was purchased in 2008 by Abu
Dhabi United Group for £210 million and received considerable financial investment.
The club won the Premier League in 2012, 2014 and, most recently in 2018, also becoming
the first Premier League team to attain 100 points in a single season.
JOB SUMMARY
The manager's responsibilities in a professional football club usually include (but are not
limited to) the following:
● Selecting the team of players for matches, and their formation.
● Planning the strategy, and instructing the players on the pitch.
● Motivating players before and during a match.
● Delegating duties to the first team coach and the coaching and medical staff.
● Scouting for young but talented players for eventual training in the youth academy or
the reserves, and encouraging their development and improvement.
● Buying and selling players in the transfer market, including loans.
● Facing the media in pre-match and post-match interviews.
Some of the above responsibilities are shared with the director of football or sporting
director, and are at times delegated to an assistant manager or club coach.
Additionally, depending on the club, some minor[citation needed] responsibilities include:
● Marketing the club, most especially for ticket admission, sponsorship and
merchandising.
● Growing turnover and keeping the club profitable.
GUARDIOLA’s MAJOR RESPONSIBILITIES
Training
Coaches plan and supervise training sessions to develop general fitness and specific soccer
skills. They may manage a team of coaches who focus on specific areas, such as defensive
or offensive play, or goalkeeping. During training sessions, they practice tactics for specific
plays such as free kicks or corner kicks. Coaches develop different types of training sessions
for different periods. In the pre-season period, they concentrate on helping players regain
their fitness and sharpness. During the competitive season, they aim to maintain the fitness
of the team for upcoming games and balance intense training with recovery sessions after
games.
Tactics
To plan tactics for games, coaches study the strengths and weaknesses of opposing teams
and consider the best way to approach each game. At the professional level, coaches study
videos of opponents’ games and highlight important issues, such as defensive weaknesses
or a team’s ability to counter-attack quickly. Before a game, they decide the formation the
team will adopt and explain the roles each player must take in that formation.
Team Selection
Coaches generally choose the 11 players and the substitutes for each game from a larger,
practice squad. They base their decisions on the tactics they have chosen and the
importance of the game. If they are playing a relatively weak team in the upcoming game,
but face difficult opponents in the following game, they may decide to rest key players from
the first game. Teams in contention for titles or major trophies may adopt a policy of squad
rotation, changing three or four players in each game, rather than retaining a fixed team.
Rotation enables coaches to give all squad players game time, and keeps the squad fresh
through a long season.
Games
Games are a major test of a coach’s abilities. Before the game, they must motivate the team
to play at their best from the start. During the game, they follow play to ensure that the team
is following the tactics and issue instructions to maintain momentum. If the game is going
badly, coaches must decide whether to change tactics or make substitutions to deal with
problems. At half-time, they review the first half with the team, highlighting any problems and
motivating them to maintain performance or improve. After the game, they review the team's
performance with the players and identify any issues that they will work on in preparation for
the next game.
Squad Development
Coaches must ensure that they have a squad that is strong enough to compete effectively
throughout the season. They monitor the performance of each player during the season and
must also take account of injuries to the players. If they find weaknesses in the squad, they
must recruit new players, working with teams of scouts or negotiating with players’ agents at
the professional level. In larger soccer clubs, the coach may be able to draw on players who
were previously in the reserve team or are members of the club’s youth team.
Authorities with Guardiola
● All the decisions about the transfer of players i.e buying and selling the players on
the tranfer market window lies in the hands of the manager.
● The decisions about choosing the players who would play in a particular match
● Representing the club in media conferences.
Significance of Guardiola for the club
The whole club which is not just a football club with a bunch of players but a community
which represents the whole of the city of Mamchester. The shoulders of a manager of such a
club are always burdened with the expectations of millions of followers. The club cannot
excel without a good manager and coach for the players. Thus this job is one of the key
positions that are available at the club.
Reporting relationships
There is free flowing communication between the board of members and the manager. The
manager reports directly to the owner of the club with the requirememts that he feels are
important for the club to succeed. The players and the staff are directly supposed to contact
the manager in case of any issues.
Compensation
The annual compensation of Pep is £15.3 Mn which rounds up to be around 130 crores
rupees.
Experiences
● The manager’s desire to be the best can be proven with this statement after the
club’s 3-0 win over a rival
“The way we played we didn’t deserve more than three goals,” he said. “We will improve in
the future. We have to demand more from ourselves in every game and do our best”.
This can be validated by the fact that he is the first manager to cross 100 points in the
toughest League of the world in just his 2nd season and still not be fully satisfied with the
performances in the season.
● He wanted a squad with humility and togetherness. It’s notable how many players
chose to follow his lead by living in the city centre to drink in the culture and
appreciate the community. As did team bonding sessions. He has an ethos that he
wants his players to improve both on and off the pitch.He gives them the courage to
fail. It is that attitude that has seen Sterling transform his game from a frustrating
winger often on the fringes of games, to one of the most potent goal-scoring forces in
the Premier League.
What sets him apart is his ability to motivate the team that his players follow him without any
doubt in their minds. His desire for success and excellence has proved to the whole world
that he redefines the nature of the football community he becomes a part of. Thus the job
analysis of Pep Guardiola helps us to understand how an ideal manager functions and how
Guardiola has been so successful at his job with his principles and experiences.
