nationalcaps manageryears currentclub years youthyears caps goals nationalyears image name caption fullname nationalteam totalcaps totalgoals nationalgoals youthclubs clubs position managerclubs article_title
2 12 47 7 2007 -- 2008 2008 -- 2012 2013 -- bayern munich -lrb- manager -rrb- 1983 2002 -- 2003 2003 2003 -- 2005 2005 -- 2006 -- 1990 1990 -- 2001 2001 -- 2002 1983 -- 1990 59 263 11 4 13 18 10 5 6 2 0 1 2 1 1991 2005 1991 -- 1992 1992 -- 2001 1995 -- pep guardiola 9498.jpg pep guardiola guardiola with bayern munich in 2014 josep guardiola sala spain u21 spain u23 spain catalonia 378 17 0 2 5 0 barcelona barcelona barcelona brescia roma brescia al-ahli dorados defensive midfielder barcelona b barcelona bayern munich pep guardiola

pep guardiola

josep `` pep '' guardiola sala -lrb- ; born 18 january 1971 -rrb- is a spanish football coach and former player who is the current manager of bundesliga club bayern munich .
guardiola played as a defensive midfielder and spent the majority of his career with barcelona , forming a part of johan cruyff 's `` dream team '' that won the club 's first european cup in 1992 , and four successive la liga titles from 1991 to 1994 .
he later captained the team from 1997 to 2001 .
he then played for brescia and roma in italy , al-ahli in qatar , and dorados de sinaloa in mexico while training to be a manager .
while playing in italy , he served a four-month ban for a positive drug test , although he was cleared of wrongdoing twice on appeal in 2009 before the courts of justice of the italian football federation and the federal anti-doping courts of the italian olympic committee -lrb- coni -rrb- .
guardiola was capped 47 times for spain , winning the olympic gold medal in 1992 , and appeared at the 1994 fifa world cup .
he also played friendly matches for catalonia .
a deep-lying playmaker , he was highly regarded throughout his career for his vision of the game , ball control , technical ability , passing range , and calm composure .
as a manager , guardiola has won 14 trophies in the first four years of his managing career .
he is one of the most successful and is considered to be one of the best managers in the world .
after retiring as a player , guardiola became coach of barcelona b , and in 2008 he succeeded frank rijkaard as the first team manager .
in his first season as manager , guardiola guided barcelona to a treble , winning la liga , the copa del rey and the uefa champions league .
in doing so , guardiola became the youngest manager to win the champions league .
the following season , guardiola led barcelona to win the supercopa de españa , the uefa super cup , and the fifa club world cup , bringing his tally to the maximum of six trophies out of six competitions in one year , thus achieving the sextuple .
in 2011 , guardiola was awarded the catalan parliament 's gold medal , their highest honour .
that same year , guardiola was also named the fifa world coach of the year .
on 30 june 2012 , guardiola announced his retirement as barcelona manager , after winning 14 trophies in just four years in charge of the club .
after a sabbatical period , bayern munich announced on 16 january 2013 that guardiola would join the club as manager for the 2013 -- 14 season following the retirement of jupp heynckes .
in his first season at the club , guardiola won the bundesliga , the dfb-pokal , the uefa super cup and the fifa club world cup .
guardiola supports the political independence of catalonia .
and in 2015 he confirmed that he will participate in the coalition together for yes to stand for catalonia independence in the catalonian parliamentary election , 2015 .
