Pep Gardio was never left behind his thoughts. In a daguout, a press conference or in a quiet room with Barcelona’s Pasig de Grassia’s view, the Manchester City Manager is always intense.
In a recent interview to GQ, the Guardian spoke about his struggles, the philosophy of football and life, and his future plans for the first time.
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“My head said enough” – Why do you know when to stop guardio
While reflecting both his playing and coaching career, Gardiol made it clear that the decisive factor for him was not a physical condition but a mental clarity.
“When my head spoke enough, my career stopped,” he explained. “I could have reached it for a long time, but my head said: I’m tired, I can’t do anything else. I think I know how to stop at the right moment. The same happened because of my coaching job in FC Barcelona.
“There was a time when I talked enough. That’s enough. I am going to look for another challenge. When you try to push it very hard, things just don’t work. But it was my head, my muscles or my knees or my legs were not.”
City Boss insists that the mental – and life – is “everything”.
“This is the lowest research muscle, most likely due to difficulty. But it all occurs from it.”
The same mental perspective guided his decision to leave Barcelona in 2 and will guide him again in the future.
A turbulent season and lessons of failure
Gardio was not shy to describe the city’s most difficult season challenges under his clock, which was surprisingly watching 13-14 games without winning the campaign.
Still seeing the required repair after many years of dominance in the Premier League
“When you win six premier leagues, there is a time when you go to the slope. This is a human nature.
“We may have moved more players, but it is easy to say that after the fact. Success makes us confused. It has not been confused for many years, but the players have been very injured this year.
“Why? Because you no longer focus on what you have to do. When you are not focused on doing what you want to do, you will be more injured.”
Despite being criticized – “I have been rushing to every distant stadium for four or five months, ‘You will be removed in the morning’ – Gardio says that he has accepted this challenge.
“Look, a thing about sports is that you can’t always win every competition you are playing. Do you know? Because it’s impossible. So you sometimes lose, yes, this is part of the game.”
Failed? He loves it
In the world of perfectly crazy world, Gardio finds beauty while losing.
“I am happy to have failure. I love failure. In this society where everything needs to be perfect, where you have to post your food on Instagram…
‘Hey, how good, how happy I am.’ Every day we have to prove that we are happy. Well, yes, I’m sad, I am failed and I lost. So? So? Name the one who does not do it. The important thing is to do it, giving it all and doing well. “”
For him, the falling is an essential part of the process.
“I have done a bad job, have more than our expectations, but hey, the next day is one more, and I’m going to try again. And next year I’m going to do better. It’s all about.”
Lamin Yamal and Messi comparison
Barcelona-born coach did not avoid questions about Lamin Yamal, 18-year-old Wonderkid has already been welcomed as “next Messi”. The guardo was wise in his words.
“I think Lamin Yamal should be allowed to develop his career. And when he has been playing for fifteen years, we will decide whether he is good or bad. Let him develop his career.
“And it is a big thing that is compared to Messi … but we should let him be allowed to develop his career. And we will see.”
He then added a realty check for those who expected another Messi.
“Messi is a big thing. For 90 goals in one season, for 15 years, without injury, without injury. This is a big thing. Let him go. Let him go.”
And to return to Barcelona, in any capacity?
“It’s over. It is over forever. It was very beautiful, but now it is over.”
“I’m going to stop after this phase with the city” – the future of the Gardiola
When Gardiol pointed out the question of longevity, probably the most noticeable manifestation.
Some coaches live on the touchline until they can no longer stand, but PayP has already made a heartfelt.
“I know that after this phase with the city, I am going to stop, it is certain that it has been fixed rather than deciding.
“I do not know that I stop the time, a year, two years, three years, five, ten, fifteen, fifteen, I do not know.
He described this break as a chance to slow down:
“In Catlan, they are called Barda. Badar, Badar, Badar… I want to do this, just stop the cows while going the train and see the cows. My grandfather wanted to say, you see me as you go. Well, you have to stop and see it.”
Does this mean that he will never be a coach again? Not required.
“Life will put something in front of me, and I say: Oh, I want to do this or not? And if not, okay, I find it. And I think my plan is now: wait, wait … and then we see.”
For all discussions of tactics, trophies, and titles, today, the portrait arising from Payp Gardiol is heartfelt about a man’s own limitation, fascinated by the power of the mind, and when the time comes, the time comes.
The fact that the city’s fans are still burning their interest can be comforted, but countdown has begun.
When Gardiol’s head again sufficiently sufficient, the football would have to be accustomed to seeing the train without him.
