Hi there, welcome back to GoalNiza channel. Pep Guardiola is the current manager of Premier League
club Manchester City. He is believed to be one of the greatest and most successful managers of
all time. A charismatic figure and a technically gifted manager, he is being an instrumental part
of top teams worldwide. In today’s video, let’s figure out some facts about his lifestyle in 2022.
Guardiola was born to Dolors and Valentí. His mother,
Dolors, died from complications of COVID-19, in a hospital in Barcelona, on 6 April 2020.
He has two older sisters, Francesca and Olga and a younger brother, Pere, a football agent.
Pep had first met Cristina Serra at a Barcelona fashion store owned by her family, in 1989. The
pair began dating soon after and got married in a ceremony in Matadepera, Spain in 2014, after
nearly 25 years of courtship. They have 3 children together: 2 daughters named Maria Guardiola, born
in 2001 and Valentina Guardiola, born in 2008, and a son named Marius Guardiola, born in 2003.
Guardiola was a defensive midfielder who usually played in a deep-lying playmaker's
role. He spent the majority of his career with Barcelona, forming a part of Johan Cruyff's
Dream Team that won the club's first European Cup in 1992. He captained the team from 1997
until his departure from the club in 2001. Guardiola then had stints with Brescia and
Roma in Italy, Al-Ahli in Qatar, and Dorados de Sinaloa in Mexico. He was capped 47 times for the
Spanish national team and appeared at the 1994 FIFA World Cup, as well as at UEFA Euro 2000.
After retiring as a player, Guardiola briefly coached Barcelona B, with whom he won a Tercera
División title. In 2011, after leading the club to another La Liga and Champions League double,
Guardiola was awarded the Catalan Parliament's Gold Medal, their highest honour. He ended his
four-year Barcelona stint in 2012 with 14 honours, a club record.
After a sabbatical period, Bayern Munich announced Guardiola would join the club as manager
in 2013. He left the Bavarians for Manchester City in 2016, and guided them to a Premier League title
in his second campaign in charge. Guardiola won his third Premier League title in 2021,
as well as guiding City to their first Champions League final where they lost to Chelsea.
As of 2022, his net worth is estimated at $45 million
which mainly come from his football career.
City manager Pep Guardiola’s Salford pad was one of the most expensive properties sold
in Greater Manchester in 2017 with a price of $5 million. The Blues boss paid approximately
$5 million for the apartment, not far from Manchester city centre.
The apartment has its own swimming pool and private room serving his hobbies.
Manchester City Football Club manager Pep Guardiola has a passion for the electric
vehicle revolution. The first car he owns us Nissan LEAF which was worth $75.000.
Impressed by the design of LEAF, Pep is now 100% committed to a fully-electric driving future.
The second he has is Audi Q5 which was bought for $45.000.
Q5 is a good luxury compact SUV. It offers three capable powertrains,
spry handling, standard Quattro all-wheel drive, and decent gas mileage.
The next one in his garage is Mercedes-Benz GLE which he purchased at $55.000.
GLE has a sumptuous cabin with roomy seating and cargo space,
many advanced safety features, and a sleek yet intuitive infotainment system.
And the last one is Bentley GTX700 which was worth $250.000.
This is also the most expensive car that the coach has owned until now.
He loves to drive this car around Manchester and to the training session.
Pep is a massive art lover and spent a lot of his sabbatical
after leaving Barcelona in the art galleries of the Big Apple.
When Pep was a ball-boy, he was once refused an autograph by Michel Platini. Pep had taken his
poster off his wall especially to get it signed but unfortunately Michel wasn't having any of it.
Pep is a principled person. He will not do one-on-one interviews
and will only interview for Press.
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