DBasia.news – The success of Manchester City winning the English League title made Pep Guardiola equal to Sir Alex Ferguson and Jose Mourinho as coaches who were able to defend the title.
Pep Guardiola is the coach who started handling Manchester City in the 2016-17 season. In his first season, he could only deliver Sergio Aguero and mates to finish in third place in the English League standings.
However, the following season the 48-year-old coach was able to make the team nicknamed The Cityzens come out as champions in the Premier League. In fact, Man City was able to become champions with the final packaging of 100 points or only suffered two defeats and four draws throughout the season.
Not only did he succeed in defending the most prestigious title in England, Guardiola also successfully won the best coach award. He defeated other candidates, namely Juergen Klopp, Mauricio Pochettino, and Nuno Espirito Santo.
In fact, being able to defend the Premier League title has made Guardiola in level with Sir Alex Ferguson and Jose Mourinho. Only three coaches were able to win the Premier League at least twice in a row.
Sir Alex is a coach who has held a title on four different occasions. In fact, he won one of them three times in a row.
Meanwhile, Jose Mourinho had recorded this success with Chelsea in 2004-05 and 2005-06.
Guardiola certainly still has the chance to equal the record Ferguson has made in the period of 2006 to 2009. Namely, as the only coach who was able to win three Premier League titles in a row.