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Guardiola's football career is already long in the foreground of the football planet.

Raised by Cruyff to the altars of the dream team from a very young age, he achieved a privileged position as a footballer at FCB, winning several leagues and the club's first European Cup, expanding a very technical and showy way of playing that was accompanied by the good luck and the world potential of the Spanish League as an amplifier of contracts, influence and international projection; loved and admired by his then Spanish compatriots throughout the country, a player with stripes for the Spanish team for years, while others in similar ideological circumstances renounced it, has now decided to join, in use of his legitimate ideological freedom, the Catalan nationalist peaceful movement taking center stage and microphone, displaying yellow ribbons in areas where it is prohibited, proof of its value, without a doubt, exposing itself to fines that significantly reduce the personal assets of any worker.

A simple and humble worker like him, and although some may think that by biting the hand that has fed him during his adult life, and not skimping on the occasions when it comes or does not come to mind, he has described Spain as a non-democratic State ( but not to the Spaniards, of course) and in which human rights are not respected, for all this he has surely had his reasons, because we know – we have practically seen him grow up! – that he is a grateful, civilized and educated person so don't take it into account.

He left the club of his life after pretending that he would renew and then be free of transfer, ending up in Italy, where, like so many other players, he had to face two trials for accusations of doping for nandrolone during that stage, which were dismissed, raising You suspect that he might deserve someone other than him, so don't take that into account.

When Luis Aragonés patented the system that has changed football forever, bringing together talent and being a coach in the making, he took advantage of all the baggage that the wise man distilled in the team that had already won the European Championship, which he never mentioned , mixed it with what he had learned at Barça and was able to apply it every weekend in the company of Messi to a winning team, with unrepeatable players who had also won before.

He collected all this baggage for his personal assets and when he left FCB, the factual owner of the patent, he did not go, as his intention would surely be, to a team that did not compete directly with the club where he learned everything or almost everything, as he has Iniesta had done, but by chance fate ended up in a team that the previous year had obtained the treble in Europe such as Bayern Munich, where he applied himself with determination to transmit and overturn the entire FCB methodology in that club, a direct competitor.

Nor can it be related that, being an innate connoisseur as he is of the psychological springs of an important mass of Blaugrana fans, he simultaneously tilted his public message to positions to the liking of the political media magma that governs Catalonia, while de facto his transfer of technology was shielded Catalan to the German club.

During that intermediate sabbatical year in New York, he did not have time to visit his second coach in the success stage, Tito Vilanova, who was dealing with the ailment that ended his life that same year, while Barça picked up another league playing neatly.

But for all this, I'm sure he had his reasons, because he's a grateful, civilized and educated person, so don't take that into account.

That technology transfer also involved players with a lot of projection made in the club of his heart and who had a carelessly low termination clause, such as Thiago Alcántara, who went to Bayern in the middle of a week of personal controversies between our man and Mourinho , already in England, which coincidentally contributed to the fact that this transfer was obscured by the media.

If Pep's brother was coincidentally also Thiago's agent, that must have had nothing to do with it, because I'm sure he had his reasons, since we all know that he is a grateful, civilized and educated person, and all that in addition to the fans and around Barça, they have shown it, they don't care, so don't take it into account.

If after three years of clashes with the Bayern staff he was able to go to a young and enthusiastic club, in which Arab money will not have been, you can rest assured, decisive in his choice, but rather the desire to convert a historically non-winning team in game reference; if he could not sign Messi for Manchester City for triple the salary that the Argentine received due to the latter's refusal to leave the club they both loved, because professionalism must always prevail over feelings, and our man is a professional blameless who would undoubtedly hurt to leave the club of his heart without the best player in the world; if things went awry due to a disallowed goal against his team in a Champions League tie, and if this caused him to go out to the center of the lawn recriminating a referee, Spanish to be exact, we can be sure that it was not for everyone to see, because it is logical to trust that it was not his intention to hide behind an arbitration decision to avoid media responsibility and before his club of a possible expulsion and elimination in the quarterfinals of the 2017 champions league, as he also did in 2019, which unfortunately happened in the end, because we all know that this comes out in an innate way, not premeditated, because he has a high sense of Justice, even if it harms him, and that he is a grateful, educated and civilized person, so do not take it into account.

What can be added? Surely much more than now I do not fall. If it were someone else, perhaps the shadow of suspicion would hang over him, but our Pep belongs to the bright side of life, he always seeks the best for those around him, he is not governed by money or personal interest, nor of course the cult of his own media image, and if he can be wrong, because he is human, do as I do: do not take it into account.