{"id":462379,"date":"2026-02-06T13:59:21","date_gmt":"2026-02-06T13:59:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/462379\/"},"modified":"2026-02-06T13:59:21","modified_gmt":"2026-02-06T13:59:21","slug":"pep-guardiola-man-city-boss-asks-why-should-i-not-express-how-i-feel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/462379\/","title":{"rendered":"Pep Guardiola: Man City boss asks ‘why should I not express how I feel?’"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last week, Guardiola gave a speech in support of Palestinian children at a charity event in his home city of Barcelona.<\/p>\n

He used the news conference before Manchester City<\/a>‘s Carabao Cup semi-final second leg against Newcastle<\/a> to speak about children being killed and injured in conflict zones across the world, saying the footage he sees “hurts me”.<\/p>\n

He referenced conflicts in Palestine, Ukraine, Sudan and even recent shootings by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents in the United States.<\/p>\n

The Jewish Representative Council of Greater Manchester & Region said Manchester City<\/a> have been “let down” by Guardiola “repeatedly straying into commentary on international affairs”.<\/p>\n

Speaking in his news conference before Sunday’s Premier League game at Liverpool<\/a>, Guardiola said: “Why should I not express what I feel, just because I am a manager? I don’t agree but I respect absolutely all opinions.<\/p>\n

“What I said basically is how many conflicts are there right now all around the world? How many? A lot – I condemn all of them.<\/p>\n

“If innocent people are [being] killed, I condemn them all and not putting a selection on one being [more] important than the other – not this country is [more important] than the other one.<\/p>\n

“If you don’t understand my message it’s fine. I cannot say otherwise.”<\/p>\n

Asked whether he will now stick to speaking about football, Guardiola replied: “OK you focus on being a journalist and you cannot talk about the economy, because you are not an economic journalist.<\/p>\n

“[Being] involved in football, don’t talk about that or that or that. That’s why the world remains silent, that is what the world wants, right? Be silent, don’t say anything.<\/p>\n

“I think it is completely the opposite but anyway, it is what it is.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Last week, Guardiola gave a speech in support of Palestinian children at a charity event in his home…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":462380,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[563],"tags":[64,63,596,85],"class_list":["post-462379","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-football","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462379","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=462379"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462379\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/462380"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=462379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=462379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=462379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}