5 Best football managers in the world right now

FC Barcelona v Deportivo Alaves - La Liga

#2 Pep Guardiola

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Perhaps the greatest manager of this generation, Pep Guardiola started his managerial career with the fabulous Barcelona B side, who under his guidance, played fabulous football to win the Tercera Division in Guardiola’s managerial debut season, 2007/08. It meant that Pep was immediately promoted to take the reigns at the First Team next season and Barcelona reached eternal glory under his 4-year guidance, where they won everything in sight, gathered 14 Trophies and were one of the best football teams ever to play the beautiful game.

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Pep moved on to Bayern Munich and even though he was successful in the league, European success eluded him at Germany, with a solitary UEFA Super Cup, the only European Trophy among the 7 trophies he won during his three years at Munich.

With a fresh challenge in mind, Guardiola took over at Manchester City in June 2016. He took a year to get his tactics right and transformed City into one of the best teams of Europe last season. Under his guidance, Manchester City won the Premier League last season, amassing a league record 100 points in total and also won the League Cup. However, European success still eluded him.

City has carried on from where they ended last season, winning the Community Shield and appearing just as menacing. A shock draw at Wolves should only be a small hiccup and Guardiola will certainly have his eyes on Europe this season. Quite interestingly, Guardiola in his career as a manager has managed 564 games, winning 406 of them, with an overall 72 win%. Fantastic, but still not enough to make him the best football manager right now because….

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