Citizen Pep Guardiola

He coronavirus has changed everyone's routines, including, of course, Pep Guardiola. The pandemic has reduced the social life and leisure of the Manchester City coach, who tell who knows who occupies most of the day in his office at City Football Academy. There are four walls on which he wrote as soon as the phrase arrived “First is knowing what fer. Then, knowing how fer-ho!” (“The first thing is to know what to do. Then, know how to do it!)”, As journalists reveal Lu Martín and Pol Ballús in the book Pep’s City (Editorial BackPage). The CFA is like your second home, in periods of maximum demand, including the first. So with Oasis, Manel or Carla Bruni of musical thread, it is frequent that it goes for her barefoot.

What few know are Pep's visits to the John Rylands Library, place that, they say, it inspired many Harry Potter sets. There he escaped in the first year to prepare games when at home, for example due to the noise from the cleaning service, the conditions were not met.

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Outside the sports city, and especially before COVID-19, Guardiola's fun is cinema, musicals and theater. To ease the painful loss to Chelsea in his first year, he went to HOME Manchester to see a Catalan company, Señor Serrano, who has had him as a spectator there at two shows. His favorite auditorium, where he usually goes with his wife, Cristina, is the Palace Theater, which hosts musicals and runs a Spanish theater and cinema festival, frequently with the presence of Señor Rodríguez. There is a work that excites you: Birdie.

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Speaking of cinema, it is usual for Printworks, where the documentary about the City of Amazon was presented. If Cristina does not work, go with her in the morning; in the afternoon with her children, Marius, María and Valentina. In his first season at Etihad he took the squad to see La la land, with Agüero splashing the film with his jokes.

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Another passion of Pep is gastronomy, for which he embarked on the TAST project. He is one of the partners of this Catalan food restaurant opened in 2018, after Ferran Soriano, City CEO, fed up with eating badly in Manchester, turned the idea around and joined his wife in the cause, Sandra Martorell, who was head of the hall of the renowned Sant Pau de Tokio, by Carme Ruscalleda. When the mister, Txiki Begiristain, sports director citizen, and Pere Guardiola, Pep's brother and representative, they found out about the adventure, they formed a partnership with a company in the city. Soriano sped up to find Paco Pérez, chef with five Michelin stars around the world, in charge of giving it the distinctive touch. The TAST, in which Guardiola and his collaborators celebrated that the TAS lifted the UEFA sanction of not playing in the Champions League, is located on King Street, the pompous street in Manchester. In it, without going any further, has a (Pretty Green) Liam Gallagher clothing store in Oasis.

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To be with family as in TAST, highlight the Tapeo & Wine, owned by Juan Mata's father. In a private room on his ground floor, Pep joins his team to eat and watch soccer. At the time at United Mourinho, Another faithful to the Tapeo, they never crossed paths, which sometimes required tricks. The venue is the venue for the Christmas parties and the celebrations of the titles (later it joins the Panacea nightclub), with karaoke, with the presence of the staff and workers of the First Building, receptionists included. For this night themes, in addition to the aforementioned Panacea, are several places of worship in the Northern Quarter pubs.

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Another weakness of Guardiola is the Midland Hotel, in whose restaurant David and Victoria Beckham celebrated their first Valentine's Day. And Salvi's, an Italian where he dined with Agüero At the beginning of 2017, in an appointment in which they clarified concepts, the Kun understood what Pep wanted and that he did not contemplate its sale, beginning a relationship of great affection.

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Still need to add more Guardiola hobbies, such as secluded at home with his own. He first lived, for rent, at number 1 Deansgate, in an apartment building that It also hosted Begiristain and Domènech Torrent for many years. (until he went to New York City; he just signed for Flamengo). Balotelli also resided there, that he left for the memory the famous fireworks incident. This was not a spectacular house; in fact, the daughters shared a room because there were three rooms, but it is what is fashionable in the center of Manchester except in cases, such as that of David Silva, in which it is bought off plan and several houses are joined. Many of the players live around there; outside, only Ederson, Claudio Bravo or the goalkeeping coach. Guardiola moved after a year to a house owned, the union of three apartments with two rooms each, near the Trinity Bridge. It is a quarter of an hour by car from the CFA, as his first address, which was also a ten-minute walk from the Lowry Hotel, where Madrid and Mourinho was there in his time at Old Trafford; according to him Daily Mail He paid around € 600,000 for his stay.

For the most special time of the year, Christmas, Guardiola and his family have a mandatory stop on Saint Ann Street. In its square the Christmas Market is mounted, in which they add to the tradition of sausages and beers. In another tone, the epicenter of condolences was improvised there after the attack in Manchester in May 2017. That night, with part of Pep's family in the Manchester Arena, the area was filled with flowers, soft toys, letters and candles.

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Everything described is now different, things of the new normality. Lately, being alone in the city, mancunianos hallucinate to see Guardiola shopping at Manchester Arndale or any market like every neighbor's son. But that citizen becomes an extraordinary technician in stadiums, a huge challenge this Friday for Madrid.