“If my players turn up their noses, I will kill them,” Jose Maria Guardiola-i-Sala said recently, and for everyone who loves football, and not for those who love it either, but just hear about it, Pep, the man , without which there is simply no modern football. It is clear that this was said in the heat of the moment. But these words well illustrate him - an outstanding football coach. He was the mentor of the most famous modern football teams - Barcelona, Bayern and now Manchester City. He has unusual training - the players of his team do not just run with the ball: it seems that every time they enter the field is a mystery that can only he can figure it out. As a form of praise, he can hit his player on the back of the head, and he will understand it correctly, and he also likes to talk with his hands, and everyone understands him... When he moves to any team as a coach, he first of all learns a language in which he can communicate with players, shocking the journalists with this fact, literally following in his footsteps. And every time Guardiola literally grows into the team, becoming part of it. This book is about him - about the outstanding football coach Pep Guardiola. Or rather, about what he allowed to be known about him...