Manchester City manager Pep Guardiola has blasted U.S. president Donald Trump’s administration following the deaths of Renee Good and nurse Alex Pretti at the hands of ICE agents. He recently delivered an impassioned defence of human rights during a press conference, and fans have been reacting.
According to him, he can only condemn genocide in Palestine and demand compassion for migrants crossing the English Channel.
Pep added that he cannot understand how seeing the sad pictures has failed to move world leaders to come up with lasting solutions.
His words, “Look what happened in the United States of America, Renee Good and [intensive care nurse] Alex Pretti have been killed.
Imagine the NHS, five, six people around him, go on the grass and 10 shots. Tell me how you can defend that?
Today we can see it, before we could not see it. It hurts me.
If it was the opposite side, it would hurt me. I’m sorry, I will stand up, always I will be there. Always. Completely kill thousands of innocent people? It hurts me. It’s no more complicated than that.
Never, ever in the history of humanity have we had the information in front of our eyes watching more clearly than now – genocide in Palestine, what happened in Ukraine, what happened in Russia, what happened all around the world – in Sudan, everywhere.
What happened in front of us? Do you want to see it? It’s our problems as human beings. It’s our problems.
I cannot imagine how anybody cannot feel that, when you see the images every single day, the fathers, mothers, kids, having what happened, their lives being destroyed and the people cannot feel a little bit of being attached? I’m sorry, I cannot feel it.”
WOW.
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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