{"id":557350,"date":"2026-07-24T12:27:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-24T12:27:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/557350\/"},"modified":"2026-07-24T12:27:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-24T12:27:09","slug":"pep-guardiola-responds-to-italy-job-offer-after-meeting-with-paolo-maldini","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/557350\/","title":{"rendered":"Pep Guardiola responds to Italy job offer after meeting with Paolo Maldini"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Beyond his desire for a break, Guardiola harboured doubts over the nature of international management, which relies heavily on remote scouting rather than daily pitch-side activity.<\/p>\n<p>He reiterated his professional ethos of demanding total commitment in every role, while acknowledging his close relationship and deep respect for Maldini, who presented him with a long-term project. As quoted by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gazzetta.it\/Calcio\/Nazionale\/24-07-2026\/italia-guardiola-parole-maldini-pirlo.shtml?refresh_ce\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-affiliate-type=\"NONE\">Gazzetta<\/a>, the 55-year-old stated: &#8220;Thank you, I am honoured, but at this moment I don&#8217;t feel up to it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Elaborating further on the exacting standards he sets for himself, the former City boss added: &#8220;If I do it, I do it 100%.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Beyond his desire for a break, Guardiola harboured doubts over the nature of international management, which relies heavily&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":557351,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[85,46,2971,2618,252611,105,252612],"class_list":["post-557350","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-italy","tag-p-guardiola","tag-p-maldini","tag-sports","tag-uefa-nations-league-a"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/557350","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=557350"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/557350\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/557351"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=557350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=557350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=557350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}