Guardiola, in front of history

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He City of Manchester and his technician, Pep GuardiolaNow you have an appointment in history. The ‘skyblue’ team, recently crowned Premier League and FA Cup champions, will be looking for their first Champions League in 143 years after missing out just two years ago, in Porto.

A dominant Manchester City

With a base almost identical to that of the team that fell in the last (1-0) match Chelsea of Thomas Tuchel -seven headlines aim to repeat the beginning tonight-, the city opt for a Triplet he has already achieved Guardiola in the 2008-09 season, his first at FC Barcelona. The one from Santpedor, created a city Absolutely dominant in England in recent years, he is just 90 minutes away from becoming the first coach in history to win two triple crowns -League, European Cup and National Cup-. A milestone in the height of the Catalan coach, which only a football legend wants Sir Alex Fergusonwith 49, exceeded the total trophies (34).

Celtic, first three-time champions

The Scotsman is certainly one of nine coaches to have won the long-awaited Triplet on the old continent. It was during the 1998-99 campaign, the memorable final at Camp Nou against Bayern Munich. His Manchester Utd lost 0-1 in the discount, but the goals of Teddy Sheringham (91′) and Ole Gunnar Solskjaer (93′) sent the Red Devils into a frenzy, so far the only English team to have the aforementioned hat-trick of titles to their credit.

he is new united of Sir Alex Ferguson they have reached it glasgow celtic of Jock Stein (1966-67), the first Treble winner, the ajax of Stefan Kovacs (1971-72) and the PSV Eindhoven of Guus Hiddink (1987-88).

In a more recent period, the aforementioned boat of Guardiolahe Inter of Jose Mourinho (2009-10), the Bayern Munich of Juup Heynckes (2012-13), the boat of Luis Enrique (2014-15) and the Bayern of Hansi Flick (2019-20) achieved a three-time championship where they again chose Guardiola 14 years later.

In addition, it amounts to myth Bob Paisley (1977, 1978, 1981) already Zinedine Zidane (2016, 2017, 2018) as European Cup champion coaches on three occasions, remaining only one behind Carlo Ancelotti (2003, 2007, 2014, 2022), the most successful ever at the continental level.

Source: La Verdad

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