Watch: Guardiola responds to Capello: ‘I’m not good enough to ruin Italian football’

Pep Guardiola has responded to Fabio Capello’s recent claims that his Barcelona side and their standards caused ‘damage’ to Italian football by insisting ‘I’m not good enough to ruin Italian football’.

In a recent interview with Spanish outlet El Mondo, Capello claimed that Guardiola’s dominant Barcelona side at the beginning of the 2010s ‘caused damage’ to football in Europe and in Italy, as other sides ‘spent a decade’ trying to replicate what was happening in Catalonia.

Capello believes that Italian sides tried to ‘copy’ Guardiola’s methods, system and way of playing, which he feels had a negative impact on the Italian game, as he claims many teams ‘lost their identity’ as a result.

Click here to read Capello’s interview in full.

LJUBLJANA, SLOVENIA - SEPTEMBER 15: Former Milan and Juventus coach Fabio Capello of Italy managing the Red Team during a charity match for the Slovenian flood victims on September 15, 2023 in Ljubljana, Slovenia. In August 2023 major floods occurred in two-thirds of the Slovenian territory due to heavy rain. Deemed as the worst natural disaster of the country. (Photo by Jurij Kodrun/Getty Images) — Fabio Capello (Photo by Jurij Kodrun/Getty Images)

Guardiola has since taken an opportunity to respond, insisting that he is ‘not good enough to ruin Italian football’, but has not taken any offence to Capello’s comments. Instead, he wants to give the former Milan, Roma, Juventus and England head coach ‘a big hug’.

They do say that imitation is the highest form of flattery after all.

Watch: Guardiola responds to Capello

“I listen to everything that people say about me. Everything, so be careful,” Guardiola joked during his pre-match press conference on Friday.

“It’s not the first time that Mister Fabio Capello said that. I’m not good enough to ruin Italian football. Italian football is much more important to the way we do it. A big hug for Fabio, a big hug.”

“I listen to everything what the people say about me, everything! So be careful. I am controlling you.”
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