Pep Guardiola: Another Way of Winning: The Biography (Guillem Balague's Books) Kindle Edition

Amazing Book.

This book gives fantastic insight to Guardiola & Barcelona. What they managed to achieve is nothing short of extraordinary and this boos gives intimate knowledge as to events going on behind the scenes that fans aren't typically aware of.Kudos to the author and everyone that's a part of arguably the greatest football team in the history of the sport.

The book gives a great overview of pep's career starting when he was a kid until his departure from the first team, as well as his experience at la Masia, the departure from the first team as a player, the discussions with other coachs, the journey to become head coach of the first team, and the four years of success from 2008 to 2012. It is well written. It helped me understand the origins of the Barça philosophy and style of play. A lot of quotes from players, other coachs, etc.However, I would have liked to have some background information of the author. I also needed to search a few times over the internet to know a little bit more on some of the people mentioned in the book.

I was so pleased to have purchased this one! I love Barcelona football, am a great admirer of Pep Guardiola and it was a delight to find out what went on behind the scenes. From never being a fan of Bayern Munich, I now watch some of their games and follow what's going on, all due to Pep! Thank you for a book that I couldn't put down.

This book gives a thoroughly interesting account of how Guardiola managed FC Bsrcelona and the trick is to locate the key passages to gain an understanding from a technical perspective.

I am a huge football fan and an avid reader of biographies, therefore the release of Guardiola's book was extremely exciting.The biography takes the reader through Guardiola's experience in Barcelona FC, from the time he was recruited as a boy into Barcelona's youth system, through his time as a Barcelona player, as its captain, and as most recently as its coach.Perhaps the greatest merit of the book is that it manages to cover Guardiola's entire life and that it gives a full insight into what it is to be brough up in Barcelona's system. It gives some insight into the Barcelona youth system mentality and also how Guardiola developed to be a highly strategic player and coach. It also tackles why Guardiola left Barcelona and attempts to explain the demons haunting him.The weakness is the lack of depth: the author is too detached from Guardiola and gives an outsider's perspective of Guardiola. I do not believe the author properly understood the Barcelona mentality, how Guardiola felt going through it, what captured his attention, and how he thinks as a coach. The author clearly did a lot of background research into Guardiola, but I would question how much time he was able to spend with Guardiola and with his friends to fully understand the man he writes about.The reason for my low rating is that this book only scratches the surface in what it feels like to grow up in Barcelona's system, and how Guardiola thinks as a player and as a coach. Rather, it is a good chronology of Guardiola's life. I am left wanting more.I recommend reading the book if you are passionate about Barcelona or Pep Guardiola. If you only have a passing interest in the topic, or simply like sports biographies, there are many better written ones. I recommend "Open" by Andre Agassi.

Pep will go down as the greatest football coach of all time. This book show you why. Yes he had/has good players but he has always made good players great.

This was a very fun and easy read especially if you are into the world of football and have watched La Liga for the past 4 years or more. It provided a great insight into what was happening behind the scenes and some great anecdotes on leadership that Pep gave the world. Reading it now allows you to complete the story especially now that Pep has restarted in Germany. There are many places you can skim the reading and still get the meat of it.