Pep Guardiola’s successful stint in the Bundesliga earned him an unabashed fan in Bayern Munich head coach Niko Kovac <\/p>\n
Niko Kovac admits he faces a long road to be considered as successful at Bayern Munich as one-time mentor and current Manchester City boss Pep Guardiola.<\/p>\n
The pair are set to meet in an International Champions Cup clash in Florida in what will be Bayern’s third pre-season outing under new coach Kovac.<\/p>\n
It comes more than three years after the Croatian was invited to attend a Bayern training camp in Doha by then-coach Guardiola, who spent three successful seasons in charge of the German giants.<\/p>\n
Article continues below<\/span> <\/p>\n Juve on alert: Exiled Icardi may have already played his final game for Inter Sarri vindicated for dropping Kepa as Chelsea & Pedro impress in Spurs win Magnificent Mane takes centre stage as league leaders Liverpool put on a five-star show Lukaku sends reminder that his Man Utd career is far from over <\/p>\n Kovac said the experience left him with a lasting appreciation of the three-time Bundesliga winner.<\/p>\n “For me personally, Pep Guardiola is the best coach in the world. And it was a pleasure, an honour really, to sit in on his training sessions and the trip to Qatar,” Kovac told reporters.<\/p>\n “At that time I was trying to learn what he was doing, if there were parallels to myself and how I could get better. That’s the reason I wanted to be a part of that training camp.<\/p>\n “It was nice as he had a conversation with my brother and me, where we learned a lot. We had a great time. And I don’t get arrogant [and think] that I will be more successful than him.<\/p>\n “First we have to try and be successful and after that I have to accomplish quite a lot to even be considered near Pep Guardiola.”<\/p>\n Beaten 2-0 by Juventus during the week, Bayern are likely to again be without Jerome Boateng for the City encounter as the defender battles a stomach problem.<\/p>\n The in-demand Germany international is reportedly in talks with Paris Saint-Germain over a move to Ligue 1.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Pep Guardiola’s successful stint in the Bundesliga earned him an unabashed fan in Bayern Munich head coach Niko Kovac Niko Kovac admits he faces a long road to be considered as successful at Bayern Munich as one-time mentor and current Manchester City boss Pep Guardiola. The pair are set to meet in an International Champions…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-758","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-football-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/758","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=758"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/758\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Editors' Picks<\/h3>\n