Its been about 3 weeks since 2009 ended and looking back, it was a memorable year. We know the events and the stars that made it memorable and people think about the team of the year, or player of the year, or coach of the year, and so on. Its now time to crown Pep Guardiola with a bigger title, the best coach/manager in all sports. That's football, basketball, hockey, cricket, American football, and whatever other sport you can think of.

We all know that Barca just got eliminated from the Copa Del Rey but coming off a year like 2009, the only other coaches/managers that come close are Phil Jackson of the NBA Champion, Los Angeles Lakers and Freddie Roach, the trainer of the best pound for pound boxer in the world, Manny Pacquiao. Those two men have established themselves as the best in their sports as well as Guardiola.

What separates Guardiola from Jackson and Roach is that El Pep has much more pressure to deal with. Guardiola is a coach in the most popular and passionate sport on the planet. Basketball & Boxing are popular but those sports don't inspire the same emotions and feelings that football does. Coaching one of the Top 5 clubs in the footballing world is WAY more stressful and mentally taxing than being the Lakers' head coach or a boxing trainer. Guardiola's job security is as much influenced by the Catalan community as the Barca administration. Phil Jackson & Freddie Roach don't have to worry a fan uprising.

Phil Jackson led the Lakers to a NBA title; one trophy, one competition. Freddie Roach trained Pacquiao to 2 victories in 2009 both were big wins but a fighter winning 2 fights in a year is nothing unusual. Pep Guardiola won every competition his Barcelona team participated in. A historic sextuple, 6 trophies, a feat that no other club team has ever accomplished.



In winning 6 titles, 3 of which were tournaments spanning months, Guardiola had to manage a bigger roster, juggle lineups more often, and deal more frequently with star egos. El Pep kept it all together, he gave youngsters like Bojan, Pedro, and Sergi Busquets significant PT without alienating the big money stars like Xavi, Thierry Henry, and Lionel Messi.


The legendary coaches are defined by their ability to do two things: One, manage personalities and two, game management & preparation. Its obvious that Josep Guardiola has excelled at both and the trophy case at the Nou Camp is bursting with historic hardware as a result.

Its official, Josep Guardiola i Sala is the world's best coach in all of sports and the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel will never be the same.