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What do Pep Guardiola and Enzo Maresca have in common?
Coaches wedded to a certain style of football? Midfielders who became managers? Worked together at Manchester City? Bald? All of these things are true, but that’s not the answer we have on the card.
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The answer we’re looking for? Chess.
Both men, who meet at Stamford Bridge this afternoon, are keen proponents of the idea that football can learn plenty from chess, and they as coaches can take valuable lessons from it too.
After leaving Barcelona in 2012, Guardiola took a sabbatical and travelled to New York, where he met with
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