Sports Quote by Guillem Balague

““There is not a single trainer, nor player, that can guarantee success at the start of a season,’ Guardiola wrote a decade ago. ‘Nor are there magic formulae. If there were, this game of football would be as easy as going to the “solutions shop” and buying them all.””

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