Pep Guardiola Manchester City coach, assured that the Champions League, a competition he won once as a player and twice as a coach, gave him more “than I thought”.
The Spanish coach has a chance to win him fourth Champions League this Saturday, when they face Inter Milan in the Istanbul final.
“I have arrived ten semifinals of the Champions League, I have played three ends, won two… And now I’m going for my fourth title. The competition gave me more than I thought. If my life ended today, I would have won one as a player at my club, in addition to two as a coach, at my club,” Guardiola said in an interview for UEFA.
“Football gives you and takes you away. Life is very unfair, but what can be unfair for me can be fair for Atlético de Madrid, for Real Madrid or for Barcelona. That’s how the world works. We always want more and that’s not right. You have to be ambitious, but not greedy. This competition gave me a lot of bad moments, which hurt me and are always in my mind, but it also gave me what a beautiful moment This is how sport and life work,” said Guardiola.
The Spanish coach said that the work of all these years, “for many people”, will only make sense if they win the Champions League. “yeah unequalbut we have to accept it. We have to accept that if we want to take a certain step as a great club, we have to win in Europe. You have to win the Champions League, it won’t help.”
Source: La Verdad
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