Ex Bayern Munich defender, Jan Kirchhoff has come out to say that football is very easy when Pep Guardiola is your coach.
Jan recently came out to say that even if he could not reclaim his place in Guardiola’s team, the manager had a huge influence on him as a footballer.
According to him, Guardiola has simplified the game and the way he teaches you to handle the ball against the opponent is simply outstanding.
He added that it always makes a difference when you learn under a good coach because football becomes more enjoyable.
His words, “It was crazy because you thought: Before, I didn’t understand anything. The way Pep simplifies the game and shows how you stand to the ball or in the field is outstanding,”
“There are dozens of little details that you might have known before, but after two months of training under him, so many things made more sense and were so much easier for us players to implement.
“It makes an incredible difference when you have a good coach. It simplifies a lot of things enormously, so playing football becomes almost easy.
“In addition, the quality of the players and the level of training were important. I partly felt as if I was an Under-19 player training with the first team again.”
“When I signed for Bayern, the last half-year before was not so easy, not even in the club and not in the team. I made a lot of mistakes back then. I was very selfish and not a very good team-mate, because in my head it was just about me and everything else was behind me.
“I was over-ambitious, too impatient and also obsessed with my goal of achieving certain things.
“I couldn’t understand that it’s good to come from Mainz to Munich as a 22-year-old and play 12 matches in the first six months.
“Pep thought I should stay because I would get my games towards the end of the season and learn something in every training session, but I wanted to play every weekend and show how good I am.
“At that time I was by far the best footballer I was ever in my career. At Schalke I was knocked down by an opponent in the second training session and was injured for a long time.
“It went very unluckily, maybe the time at Schalke would have been different then. But if I could really turn one thing back, then I should have stayed longer in Munich and shown more humility.”
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