Guardiola, ‘Juve never looked for me’ – Libero Quotidiano

2023-10-09 17:54:00

Cuneo, 9 Oct. -(time.news)-“Juve? You’ve never called me, but I come to Italy often, I like it a lot and the food is very good.” Manchester City manager Pep Guardiola denies having been close to the Juventus club in 2019, when the Piedmontese club decided to part ways with Massimiliano Allegri. “All coaches want to win and each thinks of doing it in their own way. Good game or results? This is an ancient discussion, but they are ways of interpreting football”, adds the manager who won 3 Champions League at the ‘Dialogues on talent’ event with Pep Guardiola’, created at the Palazzetto dello Sport in Cuneo by the CRC Foundation in collaboration with the Vialli and Mauro Foundation for Research and Sport Onlus. “Take Allegri and De Zerbi: do you think one wants to win and the other doesn’t? De Zerbi doesn’t play for aesthetics, he plays to win – underlines the 52-year-old Catalan -. Everyone thinks that his method is the best to achieve victory , simply put. All coaches want to win. I’ve never met a coach or player who doesn’t want to win, nor one who doesn’t want to play well.”

In the immediate future he can still be seen on the bench. “I still don’t feel tired of what I do. When the passion dies I will say so, but sooner or later it will come because in life there are phases in which one must say enough is enough.” On talent he adds “Roberto Baggio is the strongest player I have played with. In Italy talent is there as it is everywhere, I don’t think it isn’t here. This must be combined with hours of sacrifice because that alone is not enough. Talent is not it develops in bed and looking at Instagram but you have to play a lot if you stay at home it’s difficult to be successful. We have to think more about what we want ourselves, but often we think more about what others say.” Do you learn more from victories or defeats? “You learn more from defeats but with victories you live better. In life you win and lose, the important thing is to want to improve.” In closing, Guardiola returns to the 2023 Champions League final which his City won 1-0 over Inter. “Now we are seen as phenomena but if Lukaku had scored from two meters maybe things would have gone differently, which is why even after a defeat we need to stay calm and go back to work.”