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- New York Times
Pep Guardiola open to coaching international team: ‘I would love to be in a World Cup'
Pep Guardiola has expressed a desire to coach an international team at a World Cup.
The Manchester City head coach has won domestic titles at every club he has managed, with 39 titles across his coaching career including three Champions League titles.
Guardiola played 47 matches for Spain during his playing career but has never been involved in international management.
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'I would love to be in a World Cup, in a Euro, a Copa America,' Guardiola said in an interview with Reuters.
'I have always thought about it. But it depends on many, many things. If it happens, it's fine. If it doesn't happen, it's more than fine as well.'
The 54-year-old is in no immediate rush to make a career move and does not want to leave City after finishing third in the Premier League and 13 points behind champions Liverpool.
Guardiola signed a two-year City contract extension in November 2024 to take him through to the summer of 2027 — which would take his stint at the Etihad to over a decade.
'I want to be honest,' he said in November. 'I thought this (season) should be the last one. But the problems we had in the last month, I felt now was not the time to leave.
'I didn't want to let the club down.'
Guardiola, who has previously coached Barcelona and Bayern Munich, has won 18 trophies since his 2016 arrival in Manchester and in 2022-23 led City to winning the treble of the Premier League, Champions League and FA Cup in the same season.
