Pep Guardiola: "Catalonia is not Spain"
Pep Guardiola: "Catalonia is not Spain"
Published:24/04/2014 - 10:31h
Updated:24/04/2014 - 10:31h
The Catalan trainer of the Bayern of Munich, Pep Guardiola, went the protagonist of a report that the German public television "ZDF" issued after the party of semifinals of the Champions League against the Real Madrid in Santiago Bernabéu (1-0)
With the title "Pep and the politics", the German television decided to promote the report with the sentence "Catalonia is my homeland and Catalonia is not Spain" in mouth of Guardiola, but the expression is not textual and the one of Santpedor never has said it in front of the media. The journalist Andreas Weise visited the village where was born the Catalan technician, where collected statements of the parents of the trainer of the Bayern and of the mayor.
In the report does a summary of his passion by the football, his national feeling and his vision on the politics. The report also issued a promotional video of the Catalan National Assembly where Guardiola appears supporting the query and recovers an interview that the technician conceded to "The Sixth" where explained his feelings. "My country is Catalonia, and played with Spain because the Catalan selection could not play international competitions".
In any case, the controversy continues valid no by the feeling independentista of Pep, whose political vision is respectable, but by the fact that they have made in Germany a report promoting it with some statements that he never has said textualmente, at least in public.
