With the FIFA Club World Cup now a little more than a week away, Dazn took some of the managers who will lead their teams to the new and extensive tournament, hoping to be crowned the undisputed best club in the world.
Manchester City boss Pep Guardiola wants to get started at the tournament, not only because it is a chance to leave an Under-PAR season behind, but also because he is enthusiastic about the festival atmosphere that the Club World Cup promises.
“We will see how we end the season. We will see how we arrive together in that tournament, and then we see what happens. Normally when I start a competition, for example, for example the Premier League, I never start thinking:” Oh, we'll win, we have to win. “
“So, a step at the same time, no matter how we arrive there, we will try to play better than we played that season,” Guardiola told Dazn.
He continued: “Of course we grew up in a supporting fan base of the past decade and we are really proud because the people in the past enjoyed that we were watching ourselves, and, of course, with pre-seasons in Asia, sometimes in America, you see many blue shirts in the stands and follows in the cities in the cities and to ask our players.
“It happens today in football, even in domestic competitions, there are different managers, different cultures and different ways to play. So of course you play against a team from Oceania, from Asia, from South America. It's a new one, that's why football is, right?
“It is not always the same style, they are different visions and different types of players, cultures.
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“The influence of my previous managers has opened my mind, especially my mentor, Johann Cruyff, for opening my mind and vision in the way to play. I am pretty sure that without the influence of Johann Cruyff in my career as a football player, how difficult it would be to become a manager.
“If people now say that one manager has developed that player better than another manager, that is not true, because the team and the ecosystem that you can create and the way they can all play together, increases or increases the quality of that player.
“There are little who can only change things. The other needs the team – only, it's nothing.”
Manchester City starts on June 18 with their world cup campaign for Club against Wydad.
Guardiola spoke prior to the upcoming FIFA Club World Cup. View all 63 games free live on Dazn.
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