Pep Guardiola is now a thing of the past for Manchester City and, given the start of his successor Maresca, which was accompanied by a heavy defeat to Arsenal, his absence is already being felt. Ten intense seasons for the Catalan coach in England, during which there have been no shortage of inevitable difficult moments. Some of them have been made public in the last few hours through previously released parts of the new documentary with the significant title “A Beautiful Obsession”. A four-episode production that will be released in the United Kingdom on Prime Video and will show some behind-the-scenes, especially from the last two seasons of the Spanish technician.
Coach Guardiola's confession is revealed, divorce had changed him
The cameras of the broadcasting platform entered the Citizens' dressing rooms, also showing some "intimate" situations. Often professional athletes are considered robots, forgetting that they are in fact people who experience the stress of their personal problems, which it is difficult not to "transport" emotionally even in the dressing rooms. An example? What happened in the 2024/2025 season after the 2-0 defeat in the Champions League at Juventus. For some time now, the coach no longer seemed himself, the victim of a complicated psychological state due to the tense relationship with his wife Cristina Serra, undoubtedly the woman of his life.
Pep Guardiola speaks with an open heart in the locker room
Pep's right-hand man had tried to prepare the Manchester City players, explaining that Guardiola was suffering from family turmoil: "I told the players: 'You're looking at a human being. He's getting a divorce.'" Things came to light after the terrible defeat in Turin, the seventh in the last ten games of that complicated season. The confession was complete, with a reference to his private life and an unforgettable lesson for the group: "Guys, I want to confess something to you. I'm breaking up with the most beautiful woman on your planet, my wife, my ex-wife. I love her immensely, but we've lost the passion. Do I love her? Yes, absolutely. Does she love me? Yes, but we've lost the passion."
But why did Guardiola say these words? What was the motivating factor he wanted to rely on? The coach, very burdened and aware of the difficulties that were being transmitted emotionally to the group, tried to invite them to transform passion into a competitive force: "How do you play football? Do you play to mark the work schedule or for something that you have inside you? In what you do in life, whatever it is, put passion. I don't want good players, I want players with passion". It took time, therefore, for a Guardiola to return, at least to the one everyone knew, after the shock associated with the end of his love story. A relationship that, however, seems to have been reborn in recent months due to a curious change in life: on the one hand the end of his successful adventure at Manchester City, on the other the long-awaited reunion.
