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The Barcelona Legacy

Guardiola, Mourinho and the Fight For Football's Soul

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The Barcelona Legacy

Written by: Jonathan Wilson
Narrated by: Charlie Anson
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Manchester, 2018: Pep Guardiola and José Mourinho lead their teams out to face each other in the 175th Manchester derby. They are first and second in the Premier League, but today only one man can come out on top. It is merely the latest instalment in a rivalry that has contested titles, traded insults and crossed a continent but which can be traced back to a friendship that began almost 25 years ago.

Barcelona, late '90s: Johan Cruyff's Dream Team is disintegrating, and the revolutionary manager has departed, but what will come next will transform the future of football. Cruyff's style has changed the game and given birth to a generation of thinkers: men like Ronald Koeman, Luis Enrique, Laurent Blanc, Frank de Boer, Louis van Gaal, and Cruyff's club captain, Pep Guardiola, and a young translator, José Mourinho.

The Barcelona Legacy is an audiobook in part about tactics, about how the theories that underpin the modern game were forged by Cruyff and his successors, but also about the people and personalities who gathered at the Camp Nou for what was effectively the greatest coaching seminar in history, about their friendships and rivalries and, in one case, an apocalyptic falling out that continues to shape the game today.

©2018 Jonathan Wilson (P)2018 Bonnier Publishing Coaching Football History of Sports
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First off loved the book but the narration is off. I've heard the author on a very popular weekly podcast and he should have just narrated this book. The Narrator has a good flow and mastery of diction but doesn't seem to watch football as evidenced by mispronouncing names especially the Dutch ones and seems to have three ways to say "Mendes". That said the book is good at following the "barca way" but spends too much time on the "anti cryuffian method" and not enough time back in Barca or on Ajax.

Well researched, good structure and has a wealth of anecdotes that kept me riveted to the end

Compelling story...Narration should be better

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Fantastically put together with the stories intertwining between multiple leagues , managers and timelines. It's so nicely woven together and shows the impact the various characters have to each other. Against the backdrop of Barcelona this book covers so much more.

An End to End Entertainer

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