Midway through the season – en route to winning La Liga with a record tally of 100 points – Vilanova fell ill with cancer. He travelled to New York for treatment. Guardiola – who was spending the year in the city on sabbatical – visited him once in hospital.
He was preparing for the return leg of Bayern Munich’s Champions League semi-final against Real Madrid. He decided to fly from Munich to Barcelona for the funeral.newspaper, Guardiola tipped off the press that he was coming home to Barcelona for the funeral. Reporters gathered at the city’s El Prat corporate terminal, where passengers from private planes disembark, to film his arrival. Vilanova’s widow phoned Guardiola and warned him not to come to the wake. Guardiola obeyed her orders.
Pep Guardiola: has proved a divisive figure even in his native Catalonia. As a player in Italy, he twice tested positive for the anabolic steroid nandrolone. Photograph: Michael Regan/Getty Images His comment drew the ire of politicians in Spain, including Inés Arrimadas, leader of Ciudadanas, a liberal political party in Spain. As a schoolgirl, Arrimadas had photos of Guardiola on the cover of her school folder.
Pep Guardiola lifts the FA Cup after Manchester City's victory over Manchester United in the final. Last February, the English Premier League announced it was investigating Manchester City for 115 breaches of its financial fair play regulations during the period 2009-2018. Photograph: Glyn Kirk/AFP via Getty Images
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