Popular football manager Pep Guardiola has admitted that he might never return to coaching. This comes after he brought his legendary ten-year stint at Manchester City to a close.
According to him, the honest truth is that his current feeling is one of exhaustion rather than anticipation for a new challenge in the coming years.
Pep added that even though football is addictive for most managers, it will be very hard for him to find the desire to coach a football team again.
His words, “I don’t even know myself what I’m going to do.
It will be difficult to come back – that is my feeling today. I need to refresh many things that happened in my personal life.
I need to find myself a little bit in different things. I need to sit and zone out for a bit. That is one of the main targets.
It’s the joy and the pleasure to see my team play good. That’s the motto and the target when I wake up every single day.
It’s so addictive, older managers retire and they want to come back and then back again. They cannot live without it.”
Pep Guardiola Sala is a Spanish professional football manager and former player who is currently managing Premier League club Manchester City. Guardiola is the only manager to win the continental treble twice, the youngest to win the UEFA Champions League, and he also holds the records for the most consecutive league games won in La Liga, the Bundesliga, and the Premier League. He is considered to be one of the greatest managers of all time.
Guardiola has played for and advocated on behalf of the Catalonia football team. Between 1995 and 2005, he played seven friendly games for Catalonia.
Under Guardiola’s predecessor Frank Rijkaard, Barcelona were known for a 4–3–3 with plenty of flair with Ronaldinho being the centre point of the attack. Under Guardiola, however, the team became more disciplined with a greater focus on possession and a disciplined and aggressive pressing style.
Guardiola was born to Dolors and Valentí. He has two older sisters and a younger brother, Pere, a football agent. He is an atheist. Guardiola met his wife Cristina Serra when he was 18. They married on 29 May 2014.
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