What a couple of days to be Pep Guardiola.
Straight off the back of a Champions League win that sealed a famous Treble for Manchester City, he's now got the acknowledgement he has long been craving from one of his "icons"...Pretty Woman's Julia Roberts. Guardiola was left devastated when the Hollywood star, who he named as one of three people he looks up to, snubbed City to attend a United game earlier this year.
Guardiola puts her up there with Michael Jordan and Tiger Woods and after his side thumped RB Leipzig to make the Champions League semi-finals, he joked he'd feel like a failure even IF they went all the way. But that certainly won't be the case now as less than 24 hours after he did lift that trophy in Istanbul, Roberts has stood up to applaud.
Manchester City said on social media that "@PepTeam will be buzzing at this!" after Hollywood star Roberts used Instagram to applaud the Spaniard for masterminding Saturday's 1-0 victory over Inter Milan. "Congratulations @pepteam for leading your team to be UCL champions." said the Ocean's Twelve and Pretty Woman actor.
It is the acknowledgement that Guardiola has been desperately seeking after he revealed in March the angst caused when Roberts once chose to visit Manchester United rather than watch his City team. He said: “If I win the Champions League three times in a row I will be a failure.
"I have three idols in my life. Michael Jordan, Tiger Woods, and Julia Roberts. These are my three idols. Julia Roberts years ago came to Manchester – not in the 90s when Sir Alex (Ferguson) was winning titles and titles and titles. She came in the period where we were better than United, in these four or five years, right?
“And she went to visit Man United. She didn’t come to see us. That’s why even if I win the Champions League it will not compare for the fact that Julia Roberts came to Manchester and didn’t come to see us. Even if I win the Champions League it will not compare to this disappointment I had.”
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