🚨Jürgen Klopp on choosing between Pep Guardiola and José Mourinho:
🎙️Reporter: “Jürgen, you've competed against both Pep Guardiola and José Mourinho. If you had to choose one as the greater manager, who would you pick and why?”
🗣️“Pep Guardiola. And I'll tell you why.
When I think about Pep, my mind goes straight to Barcelona. In 2009, he led them to six trophies in one calendar year. Six trophies! But what made that team special wasn't just the silverware. It was the way they played football.
And then there was Lionel Messi.
Of course, Pep didn't create Messi's talent. Leo was already special. But Pep helped unleash the monster we came to know.
He moved him into a central role, built the attack around his strengths, and the rest became history.
If you focused on Messi, Xavi would control the game. If you tried to stop Xavi, Iniesta would find spaces nobody else could see.
In 2010, Messi, Iniesta and Xavi finished first, second and third in the Ballon d'Or. Three teammates on the podium! That tells you the level of football Barcelona were producing.
And when Barcelona dominated so convincingly, some people questioned whether everything was fair, even making accusations about referees. But accusations aren't proof. Sometimes, you have to acknowledge that you're watching a team that is simply extraordinary.
Look at the 2011 Champions League final against Manchester United. Barcelona controlled that game in a way that left even Sir Alex Ferguson searching for answers.
That is Pep's legacy. He didn't just win; he changed how people thought football should be played.
But let me be fair to José Mourinho.
What he achieved at Inter Milan in 2010 was incredible. He won the treble, eliminated Barcelona in the semi-finals and defeated Bayern Munich in the final.
His team knew how to defend, how to suffer together and how to punish opponents.
And at Real Madrid, he won La Liga in 2011–12 with 100 points and 121 goals, ending Barcelona's run of three consecutive league titles.
José built formidable teams and deserves enormous respect.
But if you ask me to choose, I still choose Pep.
Mourinho showed us how to build a team capable of beating anybody. Pep showed us how to build a team that could make everybody change their approach.
José Mourinho mastered the art of winning. Pep Guardiola changed the way the football world understood the game.
And when your influence reaches beyond the trophies you win, when other managers spend years studying what you created, you have done something truly special.
That is why I choose Pep Guardiola.”
@BiggestMohhh La mente puede pero sus piernas…la intensidad , la fuerza ya no van a la misma velocidad que cuando tenía 20,25 e incluso 30años. Pero aún sigue siendo el mejor del 🌍
- Dropped Eric García and sent him back to Barcelona so he wouldn’t get injured ✅
- Rested Rodri in the last game when he realized he needed a break ✅
- Kept Pedri on the bench from the start of the international break ✅
- Managing Fermín and Olmo’s minutes carefully ✅
And today, he officially left Cubarsí out of Spain’s squad against Czechia, deciding to give him a rest after playing so many games as a starter for both club and country.
What De la Fuente has been doing lately to protect Barcelona players is genuinely amazing. I’ve honestly started loving this guy so much.
🚨🚨Zinedine Zidane blasts Jorge Jesus over the tension with Cristiano Ronaldo:
“I don’t like talking about other coaches’ dressing rooms. Usually I prefer to stay quiet. But some things you feel immediately when you have lived with a player like Cristiano.
You cannot call a man of that stature into the squad, take him to the match, warm him up, and then treat him as if he is just another name on the list. That is not managing a team. That is forgetting who is in front of you.
Cristiano is 41. Everyone knows that. I knew it when I coached him. His body is not the same. His minutes have to be chosen with intelligence. Nobody serious is asking him to run like he did at 26. That is not the discussion.
The discussion is respect.
If you select him, it is because you understand what he still represents. Not only the goals. The presence. The demand. The history he carries for Portugal. You do not use that history when it is useful and put it in a drawer when you want to show that the coach decides everything.
A coach always decides. That is normal. I decided many times at Madrid who started and who sat. Cristiano accepted it when the relationship was clear. What a player of that level does not accept is being made to look small in public.
If you need him for twenty minutes, prepare those twenty minutes. If the game changes and you do not need him, explain it like a man, before, not after he has been running on the touchline. Do not leave a champion standing there so that people understand who is in charge. Everyone already understands who is in charge.
I worked with him. I know what he gives a dressing room even when he does not play 90 minutes. I also know what it costs a coach later if a player of that magnitude feels he was used, then discarded, just to make a point.
The Nations League will pass. The next match will come. Jorge will prepare another team. Cristiano will remember how he was treated.
You do not have to start him every time. You do not have to protect his ego at the expense of the team. But after everything he has given that shirt, you owe him something simple: dignity.
A great player can accept being on the bench.
He cannot accept being treated as if his name no longer means anything.”
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🔥 Marta García firma 14:59 en los 5 km para ser 6ª del mundo y mejor europea #PasiónPorCompetir
👏 Martín Segurola completa el estreno de #EspañaAtletismo en el Mundial de Ruta con una 14ª plaza en la milla (3:56.92)
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Big run for Henriette Jæger 🇳🇴 in the women's 400m at Athlos London!🔥
She became the first Norwegian woman to break 49 seconds, running a massive 48.78s PB to move to 13th on the all-time list.
Jæger is also just the 19th woman in history to break the 49-second barrier.