Fitness Quote by Guillem Balague

Training with Guardiola is good. He's always talking to each player, trying to give them a vision of the style of football he wants…

— Toni Kroos

“Guardiola believed in handing greater responsibility to the footballers, trusting that their intuition could help solve a great amount of their problems. As a…

— Guillem Balague

“Guardiola has taken certain areas to another level – such as pressing the ball – and Barcelona’s disciplined style of play and work ethic…

— Guillem Balague

“He continually learnt from everything he saw around him, from other teams, from coaches, from older team-mates. On one occasion, he asked a couple…

— Guillem Balague

“Jerome Boateng spoke pre-season after the World Cup in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung and described how Guardiola told him in every training session exactly…

— Guillem Balague

“Guardiola signed for Roma in the summer of 2002, motivated less by the opportunity to play for a bigger club than to be coached…

— Guillem Balague

“Guardiola immediately set about introducing a series of habits, working practices, systems and methodologies acquired after a career working with a variety of different…

— Guillem Balague

“he wanted to confirm a personal theory: that a reserve team, like any other, could serve as a university of football; because all teams…

— Guillem Balague

“Guardiola remained a lanky teenager with little muscle mass, the opposite of the ideal footballer’s stature. But great art is always born of frustration…

— Guillem Balague

Guardiola has a lot of knowledge about the game and understands the psychology of the players. You can see all the things he is…

— Xabi Alonso

“For Guardiola, tactical concepts are taken in if the players have the right attitude and understand what they are doing.”

— Guillem Balague

Guardiola likes footballers who can pass the ball, who have eyes for the best position and the right runs.

— Lothar Matthaus