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Depositary of the wisdom of a club of mythical players such as Kubala, Cruyff and Diego Armando Maradona, Pep Guardiola has revolutionized the world of football with a philosophy as simple as effective. Inevitably influenced by the icons of Barça, he has distilled a daily success formula based on passion, self-demanding habits, quick thinking, order and empathy.

With simplicity and wisdom, the author applies these strategies to everyday life, presenting them as a training in which the reader will learn when he must attack or defend, what are the referees of his destiny and what it is necessary to do when life leaves him on the bench and he has to be actively patient. In short, a book that teaches the virtues of all positions on the field.   

Organized in 100 capsules of personal training, El efecto Guardiola reveals the secrets of the coach of FC Barcelona to confront the daily League that each reader must play… to win.

Mourinho and Guardiola represent two very different models of leadership. They have different ways of leading a team, opposite tactics and two antagonistic personalities. But both share the most important: the desire for victory and the success of their teams.

This book is an in-depth analysis of their characteristics, of what separates them and, more important, what unites them. A portrait of how they motivate their players, study the opponent and how they manage the relationship with the media and the tactics and strategies that they use.

This is a book for football lovers who are curious to know the philosophy of both coaches and the way they prepare the matches. But it is also a book aimed at those who want to run a company successfully, with useful lessons on leadership, strategy and management of teams.

“Please don’t call me arrogant. I'm the European champion and I think I’m special.”

José Mourinho, during his presentation for Chelsea.

“I know I am not the best coach in the world.”

Pep Guardiola, after winning the Champions League 2008-09

Following to the fourth Champions League on 28th May 2011 there is no doubt: the Barça led by Josep Guardiola is the best of all times, better than other legendary teams such as the Barça of the Five Cups or the Dream Team of Cruyff. The generation of Messi, Xavi, Iniesta, Piqué, Puyol, Valdés and Co. is superior because of their titles, their ambition, and the radical bet for a one-touch style of game, which does not change substantially whoever the adversary is.

It should not be forgotten, despite the recent triumphs, that the FCB is more than a hundred years old. Throughout more than a century it has gone through ups and downs, periods of glory but also of misery. This book springs from the intention of letting the reader know about some of the most brilliant pages of this sport club, the biggest in the world, through some different samples; examples that invite the reader to know better the history of this collective passion, suffered in deep blue and red.