Pep: Cruyff was my inspiration
Pep Guardiola says his success as a manager is thanks to the Cruyff, who inspired him at Barcelona.
Johan Cruyff's autobiography has been released this week and Pep Guardiola visited the event. Cruyff revealed he saved Guaridola's footballer career when he prevented Barcelona from selling him to the second league.
Guardiola said about the football legend who died seven months ago: "I was a lucky guy, I coached City, Bayern and Barca because I met him.
"I thought I knew about football but when I met him, a whole new world opened in front of me," he said.
He continued: "He taught us - not only me, but a generation of players - to understand the game, to understand why you took that decision.
"Football is the most complicated game, it's very open and you have to take a lot of decisions. His impact on people was enormous".
He continued hailing the Dutchman by saying: "He wasn't sitting during training sessions, he was playing with us, but better than us. He would not tell us how to do things, he would do them. Every single training session was a masterclass.
"He had knowledge, charisma, personality. Everyone knows about football, everyone, but there's not many people that you will follow if he tells you to. You followed him," he said.