Blast From The Past: Young And Sexy Pep Guardiola

I have to say that I went speechless for about 2 minutes after my eyes caught this picture. You cannot deny that he was (and still is) one of the sexiest football managers in the world.

I am still in love with this picture.

Messi Craze Induced Week

This week has been filled with too much Lionel Messi. But I am certainly not complaning.

Messi's award speech.... Skip for those who despise humility and oh, Barcelona.

Our boy, Lionel Messi won the FIFA Ballon D'Or for the 2nd time (in a row!!) with teammates Iniesta and Xavi coming behind. And the MOST IMPORTANT information, he is wearing a tux by Dolce & Gabbana.

Later in the plane, the three nominees as well as unbleeding Pique toasted good luck with some bubblay...

Messi was at the Camp Nou with his trophy a couple of days later to parade his trophy with Andres and Xavi. Off Topic: His smile brighten's up my day...

Oh yeah, as usual Messi scored a superb goal against Betis in the Copa Del Rey. Typical stuff from Messi and Iniesta who assisted the Messiah.

Atletico Bilbao Coach Joaquin Caparros Does A Pep Guardiola vs Cristiano Ronaldo Imitation

Athletic Bilbao coach Joaquin Caparros showed his Barcelona counterpart his best imitation of the infamous Pep-Guardiola- Cristiano-Ronaldo-pushing that occurred during El Clasico during their stalemate 0-0 draw in the Copa Del Rey. Joaquin later smiled and gave a thumps up to Guardiola.

If all managers were this friendly...

El Clásico: What A Crazy Game

Yesterday's El Clásico was living up to its expectation, which was goals but not quite for Real Madrid since Barcelona won 5-0 at the Nou Camp against Jose Mourinho's Los Blancos. It did get a little bit dirty though.

A fracas began when Ronaldo pushed Guardiola in the first half. Guardiola was having the match ball on the sidelines and

The incident came about when a ball went into touch and was picked up by Guardiola. When Ronaldo came to take the ball for the throw-in, Guardiola held the ball away from the player with this right hand. After Ronaldo spend a moment reaching for the ball, Guardiola flicked the ball away, along the sideline. As Ronaldo turned toward the ball, frustration was obvious in Ronnie's face and he pushed Guardiola away.

Note to Ronnie: If you were still at United, Fergie would have murdered you for that.

More fights came in stoppage time after Sergio Ramos fouled Lionel Messi. After his foul, all the players went to the referee with Ramos pushing his own Spain teammate, Carles Puyol causing the referee to show a red card to Ramos. In the video below, you can also see in the end, Gerard Pique fighting with his Spanish teammate, Iker Casillas

And yes, the goals.

Bust Up Between Guardiola And Solbakken

After Copenhagen’s 1-1 draw against Barcelona last night, a dispute started between the two coaches. The reason of the bust up between Guardiola and Stale Solbakken seems to be Jose Pinto's sly (yet intelligent if you think about it) whistle in the previous leg at the Nou Camp.

Solbakken said later, “After we had shaken hands he (Guardiola) started to say something about UEFA and I think he meant the whistling incident, I said that he (Pinto) should have got five games – that was just a bad Norwegian joke

“Maybe he doesn’t understand Norwegian humour! … I really respect Guardiola, he’s one of the finest coaches but I think he was told something wrong.”

Well, if Norwegian humour means getting into someone's face, then no one would get it.

Sexy In Spain

Gerard Pique has been named the most sexiest man in Spanish football. Considering the top 15, the list consists those from Spain and involved in its domestic league. Pique came top with Xabi Alonso and Osvaldo from Espanyol. Fernando Torres' smile only brought him to 4th while Cesc Fabregas bagged 5th spot. Cristiano Ronaldo was named 6th most sexiest (Sorry Ronnie fans, he's not No.1) .

Sergio Ramos, David Villa, Fernando Llorente bagged 7th,8th and 9th respectively. Pep Guardiola was at tenth spot, the only coach in the top 10. Pochettino and Ocio were 11th and 12th while Bojan beat Sergio Canales for lucky no.13. Well, at least Sergio can take solace in beating his manager Jose Mourinho.

Guardiola Shows Support- Even At The Touchline

Pep Guardiola was seen wearing a pink ribbon to show his support for the fight against breast cancer. Isn't it so sweet? You should start smiling, Pep.

The Barca manager has certainly a lot to smile about after his side defeated Valencia -who were top of the table before the match- to be placed second below rivals Real Madrid. Congrats, Pep.

UEFA Elite Clubs Meeting

The 12th UEFA Elite Club Coaches Forum was held at UEFA headquarters in Nyon on the afternoon of Wednesday and Thursday morning and was the occasion for top club coaches to discuss the latest trends in European football and express their views on the major issues affecting the elite club game.

A number of Europe's leading coaches have been invited and among those who have confirmed their attendance are: José Mourinho (Real Madrid CF), Josep Guardiola (FC Barcelona), Sir Alex Ferguson (Manchester United FC), Carlo Ancelotti (Chelsea FC), Roy Hodgson (Liverpool FC), Claude Puel (Olympique Lyonnais), Didier Deschamps (Olympique de Marseille), Massimiliano Allegri (AC Milan), Claudio Ranieri (AS Roma), Felix Magath (FC Schalke 04), Thomas Schaaf (SV Werder Bremen), Martin Jol (AFC Ajax), Jorge Jesus (SL Benfica), Jesualdo Ferreira (Málaga CF), Nikos Nioplias (Panathinaikos FC), Jean Fernandez (AJ Auxerre), Thorsten Fink (FC Basel 1893).

Spain's Real Madrid loving sports paper wants you to believe that there is a certain animosity between Pep Guardiola and José Mourinho. But....

Seconds later....They were all over each other.

Sir Alex Ferguson and Carlo Ancelotti were also smiling together.

Can you see how close Fergie and Ancelotti are???

Cesc Fabregas-in-Barcelona-Shirt-incident is because of Mental Gerard Pique

Don't blame Barca. Blame my a-bit-crazy player, Pique.

Barcelona vs Inter Milan: Mourinho books a place in the final

Inter Milan coach José Mourinho thinks his triumph over Barca was the "sweetest 1-0 defeat ever" as Inter went on to win the match 3-2 on aggregate after Gerard Pique scored at the 78th minute but Inter just were too strong for the Catalans. This is how the show went.

Dani Alves argues with José Mourinho and Wesley Sneijder as Pep Guardiola looks.

Thiago Motta had a scuffle with Sergio Busquets which led...

...him to get a straight red and leave Inter with only 10 man to play.

I laughed hard to the floor when I saw this picture!!!

But at the end of the match, it was Mourinho running around the pitch like a kid.

Victor Valdes certainly didn't like it which made him fight with Mourinho.

Guardiola: Come on, score some goals. I didn't play millions of bucks to see you score none!

Mourinho: you should have stayed with Inter, Zlatan!!!

José Mourinho vs Pep Guardiola

As Inter will host defending champions Barcelona in 1st leg, its not just Spain vs Italy, its the clash of two of the best (and good looking) managers in the world.

The Special One knows when to party!

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