Coaching Icons: Pep Guardiola Trivia Quiz

Answer: Quique Costas

Costas had three spells as the B team manager between 1989 and 2007, helping the team to two Segunda Division B titles in 1991 and 2002. Guardiola led the B team to the Tercera Division in his only season in charge and was promoted to the main job in the summer of 2008. Enrique followed Guardiola, coaching the team between 2008 and 2011. Like Guardiola, Enrique also took over the main team, and was Barcelona manager between 2014 and 2017. Gonzalvo was manager between 1997 and 2001, helping the team to a single Segunda Division B title. Gratacos managed the team between 2003 and 2005.

Answer: 9

Ronaldinho and Deco, who had been pivotal figures in the team's 2006 Champions League success, were the highest-profile casualties of Guardiola's cull, joining AC Milan and Chelsea respectively. Gianluca Zambrotta also left for Milan, while teenager Giovani Dos Santos, who had been compared to Lionel Messi in his youth, was sold to Tottenham Hotspur. Defender Oleguer joined Ajax while young midfielder Crosas signed for Celtic. Edmilson and Ezquerro joined Villarreal and Osasuna respectively on free transfers. Legendary defender Lilian Thuram retired after the end of the 2007-08 season. Young defender Henrique also left for Bayer Leverkusen, but this was only a loan deal.

Answer: Wisla Krakow

As a result of the club's third place finish in the 2007-08 La Liga campaign, Barcelona were forced to compete in the Third Qualifying Round of the 2008-09 Champions League, where they faced Wisla Krakow. Barca won the game 4-0 at the Nou Camp, with Samuel Eto'o scoring twice alongside goals from Xavi and Thierry Henry. Wisla won the second leg 1-0 but it was not enough.

Answer: Pichichi Trophy (player with most La Liga goals)

Atletico Madrid's Diego Forlan had the most goals in La Liga with 32. Barcelona's Samuel Eto'o had the second most with 30. Lionel Messi, who won the league's best player award, scored 23 times to finish fourth in the chart.

Xavi finished top of the assists table, registering 22 assists in the league, nine more than Valencia's Juan Mata who finished second. Barca goalkeeper Victor Valdes won the Zamora Award after conceding just 31 goals in 35 games, an average of 0.89. Sevilla's Andres Palop came second with a 1.00 average. Barcelona finished top of the fair play table with 98 points, Deportivo were second with 102.

Answer: Sevilla

Sevilla eliminated Barcelona in the round of 16 in the 2009-10 Copa Del Rey. After a 2-1 win for Sevilla at the Nou Camp in the first leg, thanks to goals from Diego Capel and Alvaro Negredo. While Barca won the second leg 1-0 thanks to Xavi;s goal, Sevilla advanced on away goals. Before this elimination, Barcelona had won six trophies under Guardiola including La Liga, a Copa Del Rey, Champions League, Spanish Super Cup, European Super Cup and FIFA Club World Cup.

Inter would go on to eliminate Barcelona in the semi-finals of the 2009-10 Champions League. Athletic Bilbao lost to Guardiola's side in the 2012 Copa Del Rey final. Shakhtar Donetsk were beaten by Barcelona in the 2009 European Super Cup.

Answer: First loss to Real Madrid

Guardiola compiled a stunning record against Real Madrid during his time at the Nou Camp, winning five of his first six league meetings against the club which included a 6-2 away win in 2008-09 and a 5-0 home win in 2010-11. While Barcelona also eliminated Real in the quarter-finals of the 2010-11 Champions League, Real defeated Barca 1-0 in the 2010-11 Copa Del Rey final, sealing Los Blancos' first win over Guardiola.

Barcelona would fail to win the league under Guardiola for the first time in 2011-12, and Guardiola won the manager of the year award in all four of his seasons at the Nou Camp. Barcelona lost their first home Champions League game under Pep during the 2008-09 Champions League group stages, going down 2-3 to Shakhtar Donetsk. Guardiola's future player, Fernandinho, scored the winner.

Answer: Sir Alex Ferguson

Pep was seen by many as a worthy winner, as he had led Barcelona to another La Liga/Champions League double in 2011. Ferguson's place in second seems fitting as his Manchester United side was Champions League runner-up to Pep's Barca side. Mourinho came in third place, and was the inaugural winner of the prize in 2010. Klopp came second in 2013 behind Jupp Heynckes, but was surprisingly omitted from the 2011 shortlist after leading Borussia Dortmund to the Bundesliga title.

Answer: 2011 UEFA Super Cup

Guardiola's Barcelona side defeated Europa League winners Porto in the 2011 UEFA Super Cup to seal the club's 12th trophy under his guidance. This broke a tie with Johan Cruyff, who had won eleven trophies as the club's manager between 1988 and 1996. Guardiola eventually led the club to 14 trophies in his four year tenure, winning the 2011 FIFA Club World Cup and the 2011-12 Copa Del Rey to win his 13th and 14th trophies respectively.

Answer: Most points in a Bundesliga season

Bayern had a dominant season on the domestic front in 2013-14, winning the league with seven games to spare. This broke the record that Bayern had achieved the previous season when they won the league with six games to spare. The team did not lose any of its first 28 games, which broke Bayer Leverkusen's record of 24, accomplished in 2009-10. Pep's first match in charge of the Bavarians came in the 2013 UEFA Super Cup when Bayern defeated Chelsea, led by Jose Mourinho, on penalties.

While Bayern were on course to break the 91 point tally achieved by Bayern in 2012-13, a three game winless streak (which featured two consecutive losses) saw the team finish on 90 points.

Answer: Raja Casablanca

Bayern won the final 2-0 over their Moroccan opponents, with Dante and Thiago's first half goals giving the Bavarians the trophy. Guangzhou Evergrande were Bayern's semi-final opponents, with Pep's men winning 3-0 thanks to goals from Franck Ribery, Mario Mandzukic and Mario Gotze. Atletico Mineiro, whose team featued former Ballon d'Or winner Ronaldinho, were beaten 3-1 by Raja Casablanca in the semi-finals. Al-Ahly lost its quarter final 2-0 to Guangzhou Evergrande before losing in the fifth placed match to Monterrey by a 5-1 scoreline.

Answer: Four consecutive losses

Bayern's hopes of repeating their 2012-13 treble quickly unravelled in late April/early May. On 28 April, Bayern were eliminated from the DFB-Pokal (Germany's domestic cup competition) while two league losses followed away at Bayer Leverkusen and at home to FC Augsburg. Pep's side were also beaten 3-0 by Barcelona in the Champions League semi-final first leg.

Pep's team did lose five league games in 2014-15, but this first happened to Pep in 2008-09. Pep's team was beaten in the semi-finals in 2014-15, and he would not fail to make the semi finals until 2016-17.

Answer: Joshua Kimmich

Bayern won the shoot out 4-3, with Kimmich missing for Bayern and Sokratis and Sven Bender missing for Dortmund. Vidal and Costa both scored their spot kicks for the Bavarians, with Vidal scoring Bayern's first penalty and Costa scoring the game-sealing pen. Robben, equally talented and injury prone, was not fit to play in the final.

Answer: Four wins, four losses

Guardiola's Bayern won three of the four Bundesliga games they had against each other, completing the double against Dortmund in 2014/15. Klopp won both of his DFL-Supercup games against Guardiola, with Dortmund winning 4-2 in 2013-14 and 2-0 in 2014-15.

The pair also exchanged DFB-Pokal victories (domestic cup), with Guardiola coming out on top in the 2014 final and Klopp's Dortmund winning the aforementioned penalty shoot-out in the semi-finals in 2015. The rivalry ended (albeit briefly) when Klopp left Dortmund in 2015.

Answer: Louis Van Gaal

Guardiola's record after 100 games stood at 61 wins, 23 draws and 16 losses. Van Gaal had an almost identical record, with 61 wins, 22 draws and 17 losses. Capello ranked seventh with 54 wins, 27 draws and 19 defeats. Heynckes had 58 wins, 20 draws and 22 defeats while Happel had 54 wins, 18 draws and 28 losses.
The top five when Guardiola made the list was Guardiola in first, Van Gaal second, Rafael Benitez third, Heynckes fourth and Valeriy Lobanovskiy in fifth.

Answer: 7

The 2016-17 season had been a huge disappointment for Guardiola, as he had failed to win a single trophy for the first time in his career as a manager. This led to massive investment into the team in the summer of 2017.

Kevin De Bruyne (2015), Fernandinho (2013), Nicolas Otamendi (2015), Raheem Sterling (2015), David Silva (2010), Sergio Aguero (2011) and Fabian Delph (2015) were the seven players who arrived at the club before Guardiola in 2016. The 2016 arrivals Leroy Sane, John Stones and Ilkay Gundogan were on the list, as were 2017 signings Ederson Moraes, Gabriel Jesus, Kyle Walker, Danilo and Bernardo Silva.

Answer: Huddersfield Town

David Wagner's Huddersfield Town put up a good fight in both of their meetings with Guardiola's dominant team. Huddersfield actually led 1-0 in their home game against City on 26 November, but eventually lost 2-1. With the title already won, City drew 0-0 with Huddersfield on 6th May.

West Brom lost 3-2 at home and 3-0 away. While Bournemouth were thrashed 4-0 by City away from home; they were seconds away from a 1-1 draw on 26 August before a 97th minute Raheem Sterling winner. City beat West Ham 2-1 and 4-1.

Answer: Andrej Kramaric

Cornet scored a brace in a Champions League group stage game against City on 27 November 2018. The game ended 2-2. Cornet also scored in the reverse fixture, as Lyon won 2-1. Bentaleb scored two penalties in a 3-2 loss to City in the first leg of Schalke's round of 16 clash with the team. Son scored twice in the first ten minutes of the second leg between City and Tottenham Hotspur. Tottenham went through on away goals.
While Kramaric did score a penalty in Hoffenheim's 2-1 away loss to City, he didn't score any other goals against Guardiola's side.

Answer: PFA Fans' Player of the Year

Guardiola won Manager of the Season for the second year, joining Sir Alex Ferguson (11), Arsene Wenger and Jose Mourinho (both 3) as the only managers to win the award more than once. Raheem Sterling was the winner of both the FWA Footballer of the Year and the PFA Young Player of the Year. (As an interesting sidenote, City's Leroy Sane won the young player award in 2018).

The PFA Fans' Player of the Year award went to Chelsea's Eden Hazard.

Answer: 13

In his one year at Barcelona B, he won the Tercera Division in 2008. At Barcelona, Guardiola won six different competitions. He won La Liga in
2009, 2010 and 2011 and the Copa Del Rey in 2009 and 2012. On a continental front he won the Champions League in 2009 and 2011, and the UEFA Super Cup and the FIFA Club World Cup in the same years. The team also won the Spanish Super Cup in 2009, 2010 and 2011.

He added two new competitions to his resume at Bayern Munich, winning the Bundesliga in 2014, 2015 and 2016 and the DFB-Pokal (domestic cup) in 2014 and 2016. While he did win the UEFA Super Cup and FIFA Club World Cup in 2013, he had already won these at Barcelona. Guardiola added four new competitions at Manchester City between 2016 and 2019, winning the Premier League and League Cup in 2018 and 2019 alongside the FA Cup victory. He also led City to the Community Shield in 2018 and 2019.

Answer: Arsene Wenger

Against Pellegrini, Guardiola has won ten of his thirteen meetings, drawing one. This places him on 31 points after thirteen games, an average of 2.38 points per game. He has six wins and two draws from his eight matches against Puel, at an average of 2.22 points per game.

Guardiola has won eight, drawn three and lost three of his 14 games against Wenger, placing him on 27 points, a 1.93 average. His record against Pochettino is ten wins, four draws and three losses, equalling 34 points from 17 games with a perfect two points per game.