“Do you know why Messi is the best player I’ve ever seen?”: Guardiola’s effusive harangue to the Manchester City players that went viral

Guardiola’s phrase about Messi in the Manchester City documentary

Manchester City It is one of the world powers that decided to open the doors of its daily intimacy to the cameras. In a format that mainly extends among European clubs, the English entity premiered in recent days the second documentary that exposes in detail the coexistence between the coach Josep Guardiola and the figures of the squad British. However, that privileged access went viral for another reason: a reference to Lionel Messi.

In the second chapter of “Together: Champions Again!”an audiovisual production that goes through the details of the 2021/22 season of the citizens, one was exposed technical talk of Pep at halftime to his direct where he praises the Argentine: “Do you know why Messi is the best player I have ever seen? Because he is a competitor. He is an animal “.

After continuing with the effusive indications, the Catalan DT returns to one of his favorite footballers to motivate his own: “Messi passes the ball and goes into the box like a machine! He smells the goal!”.

This second episode of the material carried out by the City Studios –the company of the club to carry out these works– covers the match period between mid-October and mid-November 2021 when the English cast won six of the eight presentations it had among all the competitions it played. There are displayed the “Passionate talks” that Guardiola gives in the clashes against Bruges of Belgium and Manchester United.

The documentary is a continuation of what was done during the last 46 days of the 2020/21 seasonwhen the club premiered Together to give fans around the world “unprecedented access” to that campaign close. Both productions are available through the official platform of the Citizens.

Guardiola, 51, has been at the helm of the English institution for seven seasons, but his beginnings as manager took place in the Barcelona when coincided with the For money between 2008 and 2012 shaping one of the best teams in history. There they forged a close bond that extends to this day and a mutual admiration. “Messi in my career means everything. He made me more competitive than my peers made me.”, praised him Pep months ago in an interview.

Nor is it the first time that Pep has given a masterful definition of Rosario in a documentary. Already in 2019 a fragment of the material had gone viral This is Football: “Move the head. Right, left, left, right. He knows exactly what is going to happen. His head is always moving. He’s not running, but he’s always watching what’s going on. After five or 10 minutes, he has the map in his eyes and in his brain to know exactly what the spaces are and what the panorama is. It’s like being in the jungle and having to survive.”

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