Four Four Two Presents - The Managers - UK - Issue 01 (2021)

FourFourTwo.com November 2016 121 RESISTAn CE IS FUTILE Winning back-to-back European Cups cemented Zinedine Zidane’s status as ...

Images Getty Images Los Blancos are in utter disarray, the majority of the squad barely on speaking terms with Zidane’s predeces ...

ZIDAnE immersed himself in the daily family life that football had denied him. Every day, Zidane would pick his sons up from sch ...

Images Getty Images, Pierre-Philippe Marcou/AFP via Getty Images (fist pump) “I was surprised by how calm, and almost how shy, h ...

“I remember the smile on his face when I used to say some words in Arabic to him,” explains Campos, who spent years working in t ...

MARCO VAn BASTEn The Dutch media were baffled when the inexperienced Van Basten became national team coach in 2004. His side sho ...

was Zidane doing the talking. Zidane understands his talisman’s need for praise like few others. “If I were in the same team as ...

Images Getty Images; PA “ZIDAn E DIRECTS THE ORCHESTRA LIKE n O On E ELSE. WE’LL ALWAYS BE GRATEFUL” A 4-4-2 diamond, with Isco ...

to become burdened by the intense weight of being the overwhelming favourites. LA DECIMA, Un DECIMA, DUODECIMA...DECIMOTERCERO? ...

130 March 2016 FourFourTwo.com Image Shamil Tanna/FourFourTwo PEP GUARDIOLA ...

He’s widely regarded as the most innovative coach in Europe, and in 2016 FourFourTwo explored precisely what Manchester City fan ...

... and he expects the same from his players. Why? Because Guardiola has understood the most complex tactical instructions since ...

At Barcelona it was Sergio Busquets; occasionally Xavi or Andres Iniesta. For Bayern, Thiago Alcantara, Xabi Alonso and Philipp ...

32 minUTES Talk of Guardiola’s intensity is nothing new. He dedicates nearly every waking hour to planning his training sessions ...

Yes, really. The concept most associated with his blueprint is the former Barcelona coach’s biggest bugbear. “Tiki-taka is a loa ...

136 136 March 2016 March 2016 FourFourTwo.comFourFourTwo.com DOMEn EC TORREn T Assistant coach At Guardiola’s side since 2007, T ...

Guardiola is swift to dismiss formations as “meaningless” and, partly explaining the fluidity and flexibility with which he alte ...

You’ve spent more time with Guardiola than anyone outside his closest circle. What’s he like? There’s very little that is specia ...

Don’t ever confuse Pep Guardiola for a style-over-substance aesthete. Unsurprisingly for someone who has won 19 trophies in seve ...

Nothing is left to chance. The same long-established process is followed religiously in preparation for each fixture. Such prepa ...