Pep Guardiola: “The world has left Palestine alone. We’ve done absolutely nothing. They’re not at fault for being born there. We’ve all allowed Israel to destroy an entire people. The damage is already done and it’s irreparable… I can’t imagine a person who could defend the massacres in Gaza”
Aquest dimarts a l’Estadi Olímpic Lluís Companys es jugarà un partit solidari entre Catalunya i Palestina. Serà a dos quarts de set del vespre i a hores d’ara j…
Also, seems like the Catalunya - Palestine match tomorrow is almost full
Awesome, it’s unfortunate that neither team can regularly play in “proper” matches.
Massive respect to Pep for this.
Wow, that’s an extremely plain statement from a manager at a major club. They usually say nothing political or outright divisive. Yes, his bosses are an Islamic state, so maybe he has leeway. But it isn’t hedged at all like more public statements from high profile coaches.
While he’s not wrong, it feels weird to hear an employee of Abu Dhabi taking the supposed moral high ground. In my opinion the man sold his soul when he decided to work for a slave state’s pr department.
Getting generational wealth and being able to create a team with unlimited money? I would have done the same as he did
He was already paid handsomely at Barcelona and Bayern, both of which are not pr departments for oil rich slave states and both of which are fairly strong. I could understand your reasoning if it were a choice between what he does and unemployment/poverty, but that’s simply not the case. He willingly plays the role of a pr figure representing a slave state despite having any number of different options.
Do you hold everyone involved with any player or coach working for a Qatari/Saudi/UAE owned club to the same standard? Because that’s a lot of people in modern football.
I try to, yes. Don’t you expect at least a baseline of moral consistency from human beings advocating for moral causes?
I don’t mind people working for state owned companies, even if I would rather not have them in football. What I object to is someone as morally compromised on this issue taking a moral high ground on a different issue. I really don’t suppose Guardiola would speak out on the behalf of political prisoners in the UAE.
I don’t know, I feel like people can both advocate for moral cause while not being morally impeccable.
I’m going to be honest with you, sometimes I just feel like dropping modern professional football as a whole. The whole industry is corrupted as hell, FIFA is supporting petrostates dictatorships, national leagues try to optimize their profit by any way possible, clubs are owned more and more by investors who just see them as financial products and don’t care about the game itself.
I’m really considering stopping following professional football and just go to my local stadium to follow a team at 4th division level.
So yeah, considering all of that, having a coach like Guardiola making this kind of statements isn’t too bad in my perspective.
He is not wrong. We did really nothing. Our protests did nothing.\
