Post by mesi10 on Jan 11, 2024 2:29:32 GMT -5
The Manchester City coach, Pep Guardiola, said this Wednesday that the Catalan conflict will not be resolved until the politicians who are imprisoned due to the independence process are released.
"The situation is not easy, but nothing will be fixed until the prisoners return to their families. There are people who have been in jail for more than two hundred days for asking people to vote. Someone explain it to me," he said during a Cruyff Foundation event held in Barcelona.
In this sense, Guardiola assured that Binance App Users Data if he had continued training in Spain, he would have worn the yellow ribbon to ask for the freedom of those he considers political prisoners.
"I would have worn it, yes. Why can't I wear it in England nor can I wear it here? People wear a tie against AIDS or against gender discrimination. It is not a political demand," he said.
Also politically, the Catalan coach was asked if he would like Spain to win the next World Cup, and Guardiola did not hesitate to answer affirmatively, although he added that he would also like England or Germany to win it, the other two countries where he has coached.
"I would like Spain to win it, and I would also like England to win it. And I also have very good friends in Germany, in Bayern Munich. I am one of my friends' teams, and in the Spanish team I have some that I like." "I want it very, very much," he responded.
The former Barça coach coincided at the event with his former president at the Barça club, Joan Laporta. Both were presented today, at the Marbella Sports Center, as new patrons of the Cruyff Foundation.
"Pep's position for democracy and in favor of the Catalan political prisoners seems extraordinary, brave and typical of a person with feelings. It is about this situation of there being political prisoners not being accepted normally, because it is not normal and, therefore, that there are people like Pep Guardiola, who knows that everything he does will have a global impact, positions himself in this way, says a lot about him as a person," commented Laporta.
"The situation is not easy, but nothing will be fixed until the prisoners return to their families. There are people who have been in jail for more than two hundred days for asking people to vote. Someone explain it to me," he said during a Cruyff Foundation event held in Barcelona.
In this sense, Guardiola assured that Binance App Users Data if he had continued training in Spain, he would have worn the yellow ribbon to ask for the freedom of those he considers political prisoners.
"I would have worn it, yes. Why can't I wear it in England nor can I wear it here? People wear a tie against AIDS or against gender discrimination. It is not a political demand," he said.
Also politically, the Catalan coach was asked if he would like Spain to win the next World Cup, and Guardiola did not hesitate to answer affirmatively, although he added that he would also like England or Germany to win it, the other two countries where he has coached.
"I would like Spain to win it, and I would also like England to win it. And I also have very good friends in Germany, in Bayern Munich. I am one of my friends' teams, and in the Spanish team I have some that I like." "I want it very, very much," he responded.
The former Barça coach coincided at the event with his former president at the Barça club, Joan Laporta. Both were presented today, at the Marbella Sports Center, as new patrons of the Cruyff Foundation.
"Pep's position for democracy and in favor of the Catalan political prisoners seems extraordinary, brave and typical of a person with feelings. It is about this situation of there being political prisoners not being accepted normally, because it is not normal and, therefore, that there are people like Pep Guardiola, who knows that everything he does will have a global impact, positions himself in this way, says a lot about him as a person," commented Laporta.