How Good Pep Guardiola's Barcelona Really Was!

There are a few manager-team combinations in the history of football that are as revered as Pep Guardiola and Barcelona. A historic club managed by one of the best managers of the modern era. Between 2008 and 2012, Pep Guardiola did at Barcelona what few could even dream of. But how good Pep Guardiola's Barcelona really was? Come join us, as we take a journey through Pep's Barca!
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[@percymapanda7149]

This is the best team I have ever seen and I remember watching their UCL matches in 2011 and asking myself whether there can ever be better football than the one I was watching. I knew that what I was watching was something special that will most likely never be witnessed again. I mean, how on earth could they make fantastic teams under legendary managers look like a bunch of drunkards that are just chasing shadows.

[@LonwaboMfundisi]

Everyone thinks City plays the best football am like naa you need to watch Barcelona during that era. Dang' it was somethin else

[@shahzadirani]

Lol the supposed “best team ever” needed the help of the refs to get past Chelsea in 2009 and to get past vs Arsenal in 2011. Without the refs, they don’t even reach the final.

[@JohnParker-fx4kx]

​@@shahzadiranistfu u stupid asf that wasn't anything to do with the ref, Sometimes you can actually misjudge what u see

[@Futballr420]

@@shahzadiranithey were so very clearly the best team. Or did you not watch what they did to one of the best Prem teams in both champions league finals, twice. They’re undisputedly the best team .

[@shahzadirani]

@@Futballr420 read what i said again. yes they had two good nights in the two finals vs United but if you do NOT deserve to go through the round of 16, means you are NOT a deserved winner. It's like Sir Alex's team was setup to beat all teams in the world except Barcelona. He refused to sit back and play on the counter attack vs Barcelona in a UCL final, which was perfect for Barcelona's tactics. But if Sir Alex had swallowed his pride and used the 2008 semi-final tactics, that 2009 United team would have beaten Barcelona 7 out of 10 times.

[@anxiouscookie6239]

There are three things that made me fall in love with football 1. Messi; 2. 2010 Spain's WC Team; 3. Pep's Barca team. The pure Tiki Taka and total football. I remember I used to tell my friends that watching them play is like watching a dance. I often say I wish I coud go back to that era and watch those matches again.

[@yoshimitsu8643]

Damn that’s how I started watching football too. Saw Messi for the first time in the 2010 WC. It’s crazy that in that moment I knew he was gonna be my life idol

[@gonpow]

The first futball i watched was 2010 spains world cup run (mother in law is from spain) and really didnt get into futball too much again until 2022 so i missed some great futball

[@NationalistAF]

Pep Guardiola's Barcelona was the best in the world. will forever be.

[@tytheeblaiseR]

You call it Pep's Barcelona i call it Xavi, Iniesta, Busquets Barcelona notice I've not even add Messi cause i think even without him they would have still won things Spain is a testament to this, absolutely dominating World Football..

[@ziminiesta4225]

​@@tytheeblaiseR without Messi what are you saying😂

[@thuo1000]

​​@@tytheeblaiseR That was Pep's Barcelona. What happened when Pep left, immediately the following season, Barca took their biggest CL humiliation against Bayern where they were thrashed 7-0 on aggregate. When Pep was still the Barca manager, Barca used to beat Bayern but after he left, Barca slowly became Bayern's bitch. So yeah, the term Pep's Barcelona remains valid.

[@tytheeblaiseR]

@@ziminiesta4225 Just like how Spain dominated football that Barcelona team would have still done it without Messi.

[@tytheeblaiseR]

@@thuo1000 When did Pep's Barca beat Bayern in the UCL?? And you have to understand the events that happened during that period when Tito was sick, Barcelona lost form I've never seen Barca players give up like that they really felt hurt by what their manager was going through and as you know he later died. When you have someone you love and you know something bad is inevitably gonna happen your mind will never be steady. They still won a treble and dominated La Liga and Copa Del Rey for years, nothing really changed Much until Iniesta started to decline infact Barcelona's fall started when Xavi couldn't do what he was doing anymore, and when Iniesta and Busquets too fell off Messi's numbers reduced too even under Pep they would have struggled.

[@codywebb2768]

He has the greatest Spanish and British teams ever. Pep is definitely the best ever

[@KP-05]

Watching this team was a blessing. It’s the prime example what football is and should be.

[@AboubacarSiddikh]

The most important person in this story is not mentioned even once. And that is Johan Cruijff. JC is the spiritual father of ALL this. Guardiola had his greatest success as a player under Cruijff. When Guardiola had loads of questions about the Dutch School, he made sure Pep would always share a room with Ronald Koeman, so he could get some answers. It was Cruijff who reformed Barcelona's academy. All youth teams were required to play the same system. Look how many players from the Barcelona academy Pep used. It was at Cruijff's recommendation that Pep was installed as manager (even of the B team earlier on), just like Rijkaard before him. And Pep's ideas about how the game should be played are basically Cruijff's, with some refinements and modernisations. But still basically Cruijff's.

[@saltyfootball]

We hear you! We do want to make a video detailing Cruyff's life and his managerial nous, and especially the Barca dream team.

[@AboubacarSiddikh]

@@saltyfootball That's basically the eighth main chapter of his career. First came his years as a player with Ajax, immediately telling the older players were to walk/run. The role of Rinus Michels is usually vastly overrated abroad (speaking from Holland). The main thing Michels taught Cruijff was discipline. Not football. Total Football started with Cruijff (in response to the then dominating Catenaccio), not Michels. In this period, he also started playing for the Dutch team. (2). Then went to Barcelona as a player (3). Then the world cup of 1974. Again, Michels' role is overrated abroad. Michels needed Cruijff in Ajax, Barcelona, Dutch team, and in Washington. Playing the other side of the Atlantic (4), return to Ajax (5), then play for Feyenoord for one year and winning the double in 1984 (6), then becoming Ajax coach (7) and only then becoming Barcelona coach (8). And as such, Michels blocked Cruijff becoming the coach for the Dutch team twice, for the world cups of 1990 and 1994, because he was afraid Cruijff would surpass Michels' achievement of winning the Euro 1988, with nearly all key players at some point having worked with or under Cruijff. So that Cruijff never coached the Dutch team, is entirely because of Michels' jealousy. Later on, Laporta was Cruijff's personal lawyer and friend and he won the election as Barca president backed by Cruijff. At Cruijff's recommendation, he appointed Rijkaard with his assistant Henk ten Cate. (Both had one Dutch parent and one parent from Suriname btw). Won the champions league, Barcelona's 2nd. Then Guardiola, who had been in charge of the B team at Cruijff's recommendation, now became head coach, again at Cruijff's recommendation. Because Laporta basically dd what Cruijff told him to do. (Unfortunately, during his second period as president, Cruijff is no longer there. I think Koeman would have been treated very differently by Laporta if Cruijff had still been looking over his shoulder.) Anyway, don't rely on wiki doing reasearch.

[@Mohammad_Shahjalal]

Prime Barca was something else. ❤💙

[@homerp.hendelbergenheinzel6649]

This was the only time in my life, when the schedule of a football team affected my personal life. I had no time for no one when Pep's Barca played a game. This is how much i love football and how good that team was. It was a joy to watch and I dont regret upsetting other people, because I had no time.

[@djamaltanko5121]

Back then when barca game was just about pass,pass and pass. Guadiola's barca was incredible

[@stanislavvasilevschii8032]

Best football I ever seen. Sometimes you couldn't believe it's real.

[@christianbernhardhagen613]

Exactly. You'd be watching it, wondering "What the heck did they just do there??"

[@BWSBwoi]

I feel privileged to have watched Pep's Barca, and if I have to pick a specific line up, I think 2010-11 had probably the best team of all time. I'm thinking about the final against Manchester United, they were just fabulous. Just found out your channel and I'm enjoying your input so far.

[@arminiuszmazowszanin2670]

15:30 these pictures from training tell you who is Pep - he's always thinking, always looking for new ideas - he's like a football chess player and coaching artist.

[@tytheeblaiseR]

Pep assembled the pieces but i remember this team as Xavi, Iniesta and Busquets...the way the ball moved around those three was ridiculous and Spain domination is testament to how brilliant those three were even Iniesta scoring the winner at the 2010 World with Xavi crossing that ball to Puyol another Barca player than helped them beat Germany in the semis.

[@JohnParker-fx4kx]

He promoted business and played with Xavi, The fact is that his play style instilled on those players hence the success stop trying to downplay his managerial brilliance

[@michaelrichardson6125]

7 Barca players were in that Spanish side that won the World Cup and even German coach Joachim Loew said that Spain played the Barca style so it wasn’t easy to beat them

[@habaalshem9266]

This Barca team and Ajax 1995- the 2 best club teams ever, by far. Simply untouchable teams😱

[@Xoman08]

I was in the stands in Valencia in the SPanish kings Cup final against Real Madrid that FC Barcelona lost in the 103 min. The refereeing was atrocious, completely pro Real Madrid and against FC Barcelona. Villa, Pedro and others were routinely kick and provoked while the ball was far away and the referees turned a blind eye. Also FC Barcelona had a goal disallowed by an offside that wasn' t . Real Madrid was the team of the State and power and the referee had instructions to favour Real Madrid. After that day, I would never travel into Spain to watch FC Barcelona in local competitions. Only I would travel to Europe (from London where I live) to watch Barça in the Champions League were refereeing was neutral and acceptable.

[@michaelrichardson6125]

Even in the El Clasico where Barca beat RM 5-0 , Messi was constantly fouled and kicked but refs turned a blind eye.. it was obvious that RM could not stop Barca without cheating and committing fouls .. Penaldo fans can gloat about many things but their nose job, Botox diva 💁‍♀️ Cristiana Penaldo is no where near Messi .. The same with Jose ‘park the bus’ Boreinho , a toxic manager who is no where near Pep

[@karanmehta2894]

Grew up watching this team play the game , grace the football ground gave me chills . It was magic n it will always be magic ... Haven't seen a team combination better than this since ❤ Visca Barca, Visca Catalunya ❤

[@27vlad]

4 trophies in his final season is considered underwhelming , that just goes to show the standards he set!

[@arminiuszmazowszanin2670]

It was the best team in history.

[@josephhernandez-ri7db]

This os a once in a lifetime team. Everything aligned best technical director, arguably best Mids, and arguably one of the best players ever .

[@sohailstone]

Every generation has one team , but to me Peps Barca was supreme best ❤️ with Messi being the Cherry on cake

[@Mahendra28333]

His decision to promoted Sergio busquets from Barcelona b was genius

[@dinesvlog1999]

Most important move❤

[@sbcmiddleschoolict7671]

In another decade he will be the most decorated manager

[@erikv5654]

Id pay all the money in the world to go back and experience all these games live again. They made me fall in love with football and i never missed watching a barca match after that.

[@waseemsultan7076]

Goosebumps right from the intro!!!❣️🥲

[@mountaindew3201]

Barcelona 2011 vs Brazil 2002. I wonder how it would’ve been like if they had a duel

[@louis-nz8ce]

0:19 Also Peps Man city, Carlo Ancellotis Milan, and Saccis Milan

[@saimalishahid1406]

Loved the video

[@geraldstephens7481]

As a fan of Barca and a USA college champion etc I loved watching Pep's team play during years of recovery and surgery from a hit from a drunk driver. Ive been having surgeries for over 30 years now from those injuries. It cheers me up to see these games it lifts the spirit. Im 71 now but it was the thrill of a lifetime to play at a higher level and win (by USA standards). I am so proud of Barca team and they are a message of encouragement to try harder to do your best.

[@Ayomidefemi]

Great video 👏

[@xBNW]

Solid video. Good quality from a low-sub channel. Good luck on the growth going forward!

[@DaniVicio]

"... and may never be replicated". Well, imagine if he is the one to replicate that with City this season!. They play so good!. But yet not close to how dominant that barca was.

[@al7abab]

pep is brilliant but at Barca he had really the best of the best I mean, BUsquets, Xavi, Iniesta and Messi all at once and their prime!! add to that all the others?? its not just about tittles but about how they played together something incredible you wont see again when you have a team, real madird knew already they will lose to, then you know you are special the only way to stop them, was hiting their players

[@jamesgiahyue5610]

With the exception of Bouquets, those players were all there but still finished third place in the league the season before he arrived.

[@Xoman08]

Indeed, Barça 2008-2012 were gifted by an incredible crop of excellent players coming from the academy. Also Txiki Begiristain as technical director brought in talent (Abidal , Tierry Henry, Villa, etc ) to fill the positions missing.

[@sfisosguda3951]

Those players to be in their prime,needed a great coach(Pep) in this case was there for them, there are many players who do not reach their prime bcz they don't have a great coach to make them reach that level,,so now agree that it's the contribution of Pep that made them reach their prime

[@dronesclubhighjinks]

Great video! Very thorough. Keep it up! 😄🙌

[@TirtaNyoman]

HIS ACHIEVMENT WITH Barcelona B TEAM IS THE ANSWER WHY HE WAS A GREAR COACH

[@nichhodge8503]

This Barcelona team is the best ever in my eyes even as a Juventus fan and Pep’s Manchester City might have a better win percentage which is only natural as he’s had 10+ years more experience as a coach. But that Barcelona were an absolute joy to watch and every year during the Champions League Sky Sports allowing you to watch any game I’d always watch Barcelona especially since it was a dark time for Juventus

[@dinesvlog1999]

What a video I feel like pep documentary video❤

[@chukwuemekavincentonyagu1889]

Wonderful. Great team

[@johnathanhartman6419]

The greatest illustration on KZbin. The blessings will keep coming, great job on this one 🌴

[@saltyfootball]

Thank you so much 😀

[@adilsomtavares1256]

Guardiola 😍

[@priyadarshidash4353]

do it on sacchi's milan and cruyff's ajax as well

[@saltyfootball]

Will surely do! Stay tuned!

[@barcahebo.3637]

No doubt it was the best team in the history of football👍

[@fabricezillmer-stumpe5984]

Can't imagine if deco Ronaldinho etoo ibra had been there longer and and if they had been dussesful for pep what we could have achieved more

[@christiancima]

Pep's Barca v. Mourinho's Inter WOW what a clash of the titans!

[@DAVIDFERNANDEZ-jx4fb]

They played like I do in my xbox, complete domination lol

[@KarlParker182]

The best team ❤❤❤

[@harikumarkr6034]

3:17 Jose Mourinho gets emotional 🥺

[@fcb2463]

Growing up watching this Barcelona spoiled me to be honest.... No style of football satisfies me these days... Bcz this Barca was perfection Like poetry art what ever u call it.... Nothing comes close to this Barca....A great advert for this beautiful game

[@sprazini3014]

Pep Guardiola's Barcelona 🐐 June 20, 2023

[@peacfulearth]

When we talk about Guardiola, we must talk about Tito Vilanova 🙏

[@AbhishekKumar-ch9pz]

One of the...if not the best. C'mon most football lovers unanimously say Guardiola's barca is the best ever team build.

[@carcrazyguysa4059]

Nice video! How about a video on Pep's Man City?

[@saltyfootball]

We do have a video on Man City's rise that covers Pep's involvement, and making a video about Pep's career. But we'd love to make a video on Pep's Man City, so putting a pin in it.

[@frank.sophia]

People are disrespectful as fuck about Pep's playing career... He was the heart of the Barca dream team in the same way Rodri is the heart of City today... Everything went through him, he orchestrated everything on the pitch... Even Cruyff said he doesn't bother giving instruction during matches because Pep is closer and better at it... Stop shitting on his playing career.

[@akhilreddyanantha5167]

When he joined the club he had decent amount of hair on his head , while leaving he was bald and his hair turned grey.

[@pablotorrestorres3980]

You missed why Pep only stayed only 4 yrs in the club he loves and why he is staying already 7 yrs in Manchester. The reason was the president after Laporta left Sandro rosell had other ideas they didn't believe in the tiki taka. Between Sandro Rosell and Joseph Maria Bartomeu left Barca in the situation that we see today

[@sufy10]

Pep was not a descent player .. he was one the best in that role

[@fabricezillmer-stumpe5984]

It's peps barca Fergus United Sarr us and capellos Milan Busbys United Enrique's barca Paisley Liverpool Cruyff barca And now peps city

[@gcinamdludla6321]

I thought Carlo Ancelotti’s AC Milan of 2001-2007 was great but PEP’s Barca is the greatest club side ever.

[@Thegoatinmiami]

That fixture actually ended 6-3.

[@uncleprosindane7717]

If you are watching this in 2030, this was the best team in my youthful years

[@HaMa_Xozgay_Lawan]

0:07 or me in fifa career mode 😂

[@LoyalGio]

What is Messi his best role false 9, second striker or right winger?

[@johnychrist5475]

False 9 for me, they basically completely changed the game when messi started doing that

[@LoyalGio]

@@johnychrist5475 Great point.

[@shaquillethomas1544]

False 9 when he scored 91 goals in a calendar year

[@ndesylvarius3669]

The Picasso of football

[@deiuskernollivirreshorto]

yuh he also brought in Lionel messi.. young messi was bright...when pep came he make messi who he is today..

[@1MCElias]

😁👍🏻

[@titusxp]

I copied Pep's Tiki Taka in my FIFA games and won almost everyone I played against.

[@christiancima]

Barca probably would have lost that Arsenal game had the ref not given the game to them with that shit red card to Van Persie in the 55th minute -_-

[@sylvanorcass]

😊😊

[@silensill]

18:16 dani alves wtf?

[@mcbarca]

Joan laporta's Barcelona

[@wawatone3392]

I prefer 2006-2008 barcelona,,, if ronaldinho can maintain his performamce,,,

[@sobrevalorado]

A decent career as a player???? He was amazing, dude

[@lindahlophe]

Tikki takka

[@goodgame1334]

That man destroyed football and all of the joy!!!

[@waterhouse87]

Because he destroyed your favorite teams right 😢😂

[@goodgame1334]

No mate, it's because of all the passes. That is why he made it boring. If you like to watch a game like that then🤣🤣

[@user-ve9mv8tq4c]

Zin’s Real Madrid

[@fernandoenriquez432]

Mourinho was once a student of cruyff and never copied him

[@Arvey_Esports]

kids in the future who is pep gurdiola me: his the one who created the greatest player of all time Lionel Messi

[@nhlahlawesley8029]

This team was a robbing team 😢everyone know chelsea;Arsenal and man united than Barcelona

[@RFG910]

Cap

[@briankin1827]

Well they beatbFergie' s United twice,enough said.

[@melvinekka5932]

He lost a lot of hair in a decade.

[@arminiuszmazowszanin2670]

Mourinho won more but i think he can shine shoes of Guardiola in terms of football. Mourinho won almost ALL trophies playing SHIT football.

[@michael4239]

Pep has more trophies

[@shahzadirani]

@@michael4239half of them thanks to the refs or breaching doping regulations or breaching financial fair play rules lol. Sir Alex and Jose > Pep

[@arminiuszmazowszanin2670]

Now he has.

[@mahadevansubramanian118]

Ask pep to play his football with inter 2010 squad. The we will talk. It’s all good when u manage a team of Spain golden generation, Messi, Kdb with billions of money spent 😂. Mourinho won with Porto, inter, Chelsea. Real Madrid was the only elite club he managed

[@michael4239]

@@mahadevansubramanian118 delusional inter had a crazy squad and so what happen to Chelsea , man united 😂😂😂😂

[@talk844]

Bayern also won the sextuple...with a much weaker line-up. I agree that barca team was great but....but Why always talk high about barca and not mention bayern?

[@curtischarles5299]

Because Barca was better . Simple

[@saltyfootball]

This was a video on Pep's Barca covering his 4 years there, so mentioning Bayern that did it 10 years after was beyond the scope of this one. Maybe in future we'll do one on Bayern as well.

[@christopherrogala1532]

yeah Bayern also won the sextuple... but in much weaker weak which is bundesliga plus german league cup !!there is no comparesment as la liga back then was simply the best league in the world!!

[@christopherrogala1532]

weaker league

[@josephgrossenbacher7642]

... maybe because football based only on very german vitues ain't so much fun to watch ?

[@hugolazy9330]

Klopps Liverpool were better

[@dBrainChilD]

You forgot Mourinho's Inter who masterfully beat him and prime Barca,best in their history msybe even stronger then prime Ronaldinho. Pay respect where respect is due.😊😊

[@alexandermccoy2260]

It's not who best him it's how he his mentality and team change football, He also lost to other team's does it make those team a better team

[@shaquillethomas1544]

@@alexandermccoy2260 some of these people are just idiots when you see them make a comment bro,they know nothing about football

[@michael4239]

Mourinho lost to other teams

[@michael4239]

You are just jealous why bring mourinho to this

[@Xoman08]

Inter Milan beat Barça due to a goal that was offside and the help of a volcano in iceland that closed the air space. I did the trip from London to Milan by bus, 23 hours via Paris. FC Barcelona players also had to do the trip to Milan by bus , 12hrs on the road. That affected their performance. In Barcelona the referee disallowed a goal by Bojan at the last minute that would had meant Inter Milan defeat and Barça progressing to the final. The referee signaled "handball". The TV repeat didn't show a handball prior to Bojan scoring from outside the area.,

[@Fanai08]

Great team + Paid referees

[@michaelrichardson6125]

Pep #GOAT manager .. Messi #GOAT 🐐 player .. Pep’s Barca #GOAT club team

[@michaelrichardson6125]

💙❤️