Former Barcelona coach who is currently Manchester City manager, Pep Guardiola, has said it would be impossible for him to manage another English club and he will be “a Mancunian” for the rest of his life. Guardiola said he feels loved by the City fans, after last season’s record-breaking title campaign and is determined to entertain them in style.
“Statistics and numbers are nice, but numbers are not a passion. “It does not give you something. It is better to say after 10 years I remember this final and how well we played, to remember the way we have done it.
“Titles are important, of course, and they have helped me have jobs and to keep working on my passion.
“But I think all the managers, we are happy with our old players when we can laugh and hug and have a good relation. Everyone loves to be loved, it is the secret of our lives.
“I will be Mancunian for the rest of my life. I will be a Manchester City fan and it will be impossible to train another team like Manchester City in England, because I feel love from the people here,” he said in an interview.
Pep Guardiola chooses the songs that help define the key moments of his life and career in an exclusive interview with Spanish journalist Guillem Balague
Guardiola speaks at length about his upbringing, his family and his special relationship with the people of Manchester, while reflecting on what the future might hold. He also talks about the night his wife and two daughters were caught up in the Manchester Arena attack.
This is Pep Guardiola as you have never heard him before he sang "Don't Look Back in Anger, by Oasis (1996)"
"I know my job from 18, 19 years old. I have lived many years in this type of life and it's not a problem, I understand, I play that game."
"But when I escape it's home. Home, home, wife, kids - it's the only place where I can do whatever I want, where I am free to do all the silly and stupid things and not be judged."
"My wife Cristina, the lovely kids we have, it's because she was there. My family know that I am there but I am not there. Sometimes I'm at home but not at home. They call Pep! Pep! but they know I am in my own world."
"My job is demanding a lot. Cristina is an incredible woman, not just an incredible mother. If we were talking about moving to New York, Munich and here, if she decides not to come I won't come. I will not be here - I cannot be alone in this kind of job without my family."
Dutch football legend Cruyff, who died of cancer in 2016, coached Guardiola at Barcelona and was a mentor to him when he began his own coaching career.
"He helped me to love this game, to love football, and to love it you have to understand it. "He gave us secrets, because they were things nobody else saw. The way he sees football is totally different; he had a lot of power in that way."
"Obsessive, demanding, stressful. He was like a brutal father. He was so rough - so tough, you cannot imagine."
"Nothing was easy, and there was a time when I could not stay with him anymore, but he was fair."
"I am not such a religious guy - I grew up going to church but I don't believe too much - so I don't talk to him, but I always remember."
"Maybe I would like to have faith to believe he is there watching us. Sometimes I think maybe it's happened."

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