Manchester City coach Pep Guardiola used his team’s press conference on Tuesday to draw attention to victims of conflicts around the world.
Guardiola has used his platform to advocate for philanthropic causes in the past and he gave an impassioned plea, referencing Palestine, Ukraine, Sudan and the victims of the shootings by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents in Minneapolis.
“Today we can see it, before we could not see it,” the City boss said. “It hurts me. If it was the opposite side, it would hurt me. I’m sorry, I will stand up, always I will be there. Always. Completely kill thousands of innocent people? It hurts me. It’s no more complicated than that. No more.”
“I cannot imagine how anybody cannot feel that, when you see the images every single day, the fathers, mothers, kids, having what happened, their lives being destroyed and the people cannot feel a little bit of being attached? I’m sorry, I cannot feel it.”
Last Friday Guardiola missed his scheduled Premier League press conference to return to his native Barcelona to appear at a charity concert in support of Palestinian children. In the past he has worn the yellow ribbon in solidarity with the Catalan pro-independence activists who were imprisoned or in exile. Guardiola has often shown an awareness of and an interest in current affairs.
On Tuesday he told reporters: “Never, ever in the history of humanity have we had the information in front of our eyes watching more clearly than now - genocide in Palestine, what happened in Ukraine, what happened in Russia, what happened all around the world - in Sudan, everywhere.
“What happened in front of us? Do you want to see it? It’s our problems as human beings. It’s our problems."
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Thanks Pep.