{"id":100706,"date":"2026-01-30T13:58:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-30T13:58:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/100706\/"},"modified":"2026-01-30T13:58:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-30T13:58:09","slug":"pep-guardiola-misses-man-city-press-conference-for-personal-reason","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/100706\/","title":{"rendered":"Pep Guardiola misses Man City press conference for \u2018personal reason\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The City boss was due to hold a lunchtime press conference to preview Sunday\u2019s Premier League game but the club later confirmed assistant boss Pep Lijnders would take his place.<\/p>\n<p>It comes after Guardiola gave a speech in support of Palestinian children at a charity concert in his home city of Barcelona on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/2.82749336.jpg\" alt=\"Pep Guardiola (right) sitting with assistant Pep Lijnders \" data-title=\"Real Madrid v Manchester City \u2013 UEFA Champions League \u2013 League Phase \u2013 Bernabeu\" data-copyright-holder=\"PA Wire\" data-copyright-notice=\"PA Wire\/PA Images\" data-credit=\"Mike Egerton\" data-usage-terms=\"Use subject to restrictions. Editorial use only, no commercial use without prior consent from rights holder.\"  \/>Pep Lijnders (left) took charge of media duties in Guardiola\u2019s absence (Mike Egerton\/PA)<\/p>\n<p>The club said Guardiola was not present due to a personal reason.<\/p>\n<p>The Spaniard was expected to be back for training on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Addressing the matter, Lijnders said: \u201cThe manager is good, as always, full of ambition and passion but it is a personal matter. He will arrive back here in Manchester today.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The City boss was due to hold a lunchtime press conference to preview Sunday\u2019s Premier League game but&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":100707,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[128,130,129],"class_list":{"0":"post-100706","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-reading","8":"tag-reading-city","9":"tag-reading-city-headlines","10":"tag-reading-city-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100706","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100706"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100706\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/100707"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}