The Manchester City coach is trying to win the ‘Orejona’ again.
Pep Guardiola wants to win the Champions League again in the 2022-2023 season. He knows it’s not easy to achieve what would be historic for Manchester City as the England team never achieved it.
In the 2022-2023 academic year, his team will be in the semi-finals of the continental tournament, where they will face Real Madrid, the club that eliminated them last season.
Guardiola spoke precisely about the challenge of winning the Champions League in the press conference ahead of the draw with Ancelotti’s Real Madrid. “When I arrived I thought I would win it, the same the next … and the next. And the last one, the same thing. That’s my mentality. We’ll try again,” he said.
And it is that every year City appears as one of the favorites to win the UEFA Champions League and Pep Guardiola tries to add another ‘Orejona’ to his record as a coach but he still resists and the coach could only do it in his stage win at FCBarcelona.
AS A PLAYER
The one who was a Barça midfielder won the tournament in the 1991-1992 season edition in what was also his first season with the club blaugrana. He started in the final against Sampdoria which they won with the mythical goal of Ronald Koeman at Wembley.
Later he could not win any more time in the tournament as a culé, nor with the Romebut he did win the European Super Cup twice (1992-92 and 1997-98) with Barcelona and the Recopa in the 1996-1997 season.
When was the last time Guardiola won the UEFA Champions League?
AS A COACH
Getty Images As a coach, he won the Champions League in his first edition at the helm of Barcelona, in the 2008-2009 season, against Manchester United, in a final played in Rome; He repeated the title in 2010–11 against the same rival at Wembley, which was the last time he won the trophy.
In the 2009-10 and 2011-12 seasons, also with Barcelona, he was eventually eliminated in the semi-finals by those who would eventually become champions, Inter and Chelsea.
At Bayern Munich he was eliminated three times (2014, 2015 and 2016) in the semi-finals against Real Madrid, Barcelona and Atlético de Madrid respectively.
Already at Manchester City he started by always being eliminated before the semi-finals: he fell against Monaco in the round of 16 and against Liverpool in the quarter finals. The same in the 2018/19 season when they lost to Tottenham after an incredible 4-4 at home, and in 2019/20 they also lost to Olympique de Lyon in the quarter finals.
In the 2020-2021 season, he was finally allowed to play in the final again 10 years later, but the Guardiola boys lost the decisive Champions League game 0-1 to Chelsea. For example, Guardiola lost in a final for the first time in his coaching career.
Source: Goal