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PEP GUARDIOLA - Footballs Soulless Antichrist
PEP GUARDIOLA - Footballs Soulless Antichrist
Pep Guardiola absolutely hates chaos. The thought of it keeps him awake at night.
He therefore seeks to control the actions of his players on a football pitch. Cogs in a machine, repetitive mechanical structures.
As he continually seeks more and more order.
He therefore seeks to control the actions of his players on a football pitch. Cogs in a machine, repetitive mechanical structures.
As he continually seeks more and more order.
In doing so he removes the character & individuality of his players.
There is NO room for intuition, instinct or creative thinking outside the parameters Pep restricts his teams to play under.
And they are strict.
There is NO room for intuition, instinct or creative thinking outside the parameters Pep restricts his teams to play under.
And they are strict.
The uncertainly of players freedom of thought, decision making & creativity unsettles Guardiola because he loses control.
Uncertainty is his kryptonite.
To Pep Guardiola the human mind is too inconsistent, unstable, unpredictable. Error prone.
Uncertainty is his kryptonite.
To Pep Guardiola the human mind is too inconsistent, unstable, unpredictable. Error prone.
So he strips away everything that makes his footballers unique.
Controlling the actions of his players through pre determined mechanisms, rigid structures & pre organised patterns of play.
Controlling the actions of his players through pre determined mechanisms, rigid structures & pre organised patterns of play.
Paraphrasing the Hungarian,
“Football built on hyper mechanisation cannot do anything in a game that requires the strength that comes from the soul, they cannot defeat what springs from sincere will, they couldn’t do anything about the Bernabéu”
“Football built on hyper mechanisation cannot do anything in a game that requires the strength that comes from the soul, they cannot defeat what springs from sincere will, they couldn’t do anything about the Bernabéu”
And a Pep Guardiola side will never ever be able to produce moments like it.
Pep Guardiola’s teams ultimately have no soul. There’re stripped of the very thing that makes us/them human.
Pep Guardiola’s teams ultimately have no soul. There’re stripped of the very thing that makes us/them human.
Football is a game played by the players, it’s individuals, and the interactions between them. Shaped by language, culture, relationships. It’s imperfect.
It’s what shapes social relations that distinguishes us as ‘being human’: an ability to understand, persevere and transform things that cannot be explained, the infinite human mind, it’s that that removes the impossible.
The act of limitless creation.
The act of limitless creation.
At his very core Pep Guardiola is anti human, anti football, as he seeks to reduce football to a game of chess played by finely tuned soulless machines.
The ultimate football authoritarian.
That ever fails to grasp chaos is inevitable, yet refuses to embrace it.
The ultimate football authoritarian.
That ever fails to grasp chaos is inevitable, yet refuses to embrace it.
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