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Pitch Points: Pep’s next thousand games; will Messi drag Miami to glory?

The world of soccer throws up no shortage of questions. Today, Graham Ruthven endeavors to answer three of themPep Guardiola has done a lot with his 1,000 matches as a manager. At Barcelona, Bayern Munich and Manchester City, he has lifted 40 trophies (including three Community Shields, because why wouldn’t you count them?), yet not even this fact quantifies the way Guardiola has defined an entire era (or two) of the sport. Continue reading...

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