Chess grandmaster Kasparov said that he had given up on beating a 22-year-old Norwegian opponent and had come to the conclusion that he would never succeed. Guardiola repeatedly questioned Kasparov about this in an attempt to get an explanation because he thought there might be some comprehension of his own feelings of professional exhaustion. However, Kasparov resisted providing one.
The reason was uncovered during a parallel conversation between Daria Tarasova and Cristina Serra, the wives of these two primal-driven people, over dinner that evening. Kasparov was exhausted from realizing what six hours of mental exhaustion during games actually required, while Magnus Carlsen, the challenger, was obliviously unprepared.
This conversation's intellectual curiosity has significance to a debate of why Guardiola has elevated football management to a new level. He is "a man who questions everything," according to journalist Marti Perarnau, who has written some of the most insightful pieces on Guardiola. He is prone to preoccupation in this area.
Manel Estiarte, Guardiola's right-hand man at Barcelona, Bayern Munich, and City, talks about the "law of 32 minutes" with him, which refers to the roughly 32-minute window during which he may be distracted from football without his thoughts returning to it.
After winning his second career treble, much will be made, and rightfully so, of the enormous sums of money that were made available to him when he won those awards for Barcelona and Manchester City.
But the football mind transcends a transfer budget; it recognizes value where others don't, challenges conventional wisdom, and develops players. However, Guardiola's pursuit of the less obvious players, such as Manuel Akanji, Nathan Ake, and Julian Alvarez, attests to a judgment that the immensely less educated Qataris at PSG would kill for. This is made possible by the sponsorship of an Abu Dhabi sovereign wealth fund.
Additionally, there is the ability to swap defenders and midfielders, as demonstrated on Saturday night when John Stones contributed more creatively than Jack Grealish.
The Johan Cruyff school of Total Football at Barcelona in the 1990s, when incredibly alert players raced into space where they were most needed, is where the fluidity's roots can be found. In his book Brilliant Orange, author David Winner, who also analyzes the 'neurotic brilliance' of the Cruyffian disciples—and yes, there is some of that in Guardiola—describes that style of football as "Pythagoras in boots."
Because of his occasionally a little bit pretentious and awkwardly passive-aggressive news conference demeanor, he continues to be a mystery to the English public. One sports publication in Madrid sent a reporter to ask him if he "peed cologne" before his first Clasico versus Jose Mourinho in an attempt to mock his alleged perfection.
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