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Pep Guardiola has said he would “not accept another club” after ending his tenure as Manchester City coach, despite leaving open the possibility of coaching a national team. Shortly after signing a contract extension in November, Guardiola gave an interview in Manchester to visiting Spanish celebrity chef Dani Garcia, who published the conversation on his YouTube channel. “I think it’s enough. I’m going to stop. I’m not going to take another team,” Guardiola said. “I’m not talking about the long-term future, but what I’m not going to do is leave Man City, go to another country and do the same thing as now.
“I wouldn’t have the energy. The idea of starting somewhere else, all the training and so on. No, no, no! Maybe a national team, but it’s different.
“I want to leave him and go play golf but I can’t. I think stopping would do me good.”
Guardiola has previously expressed his interest in coaching at international level later in his career.
“It’s different. It’s not about (practicing) every day, (playing) every three days,” he said. “Rest, see what we have done, what we can do better, because on a daily basis we don’t have much time to rest.”
In a conversation that touched on his food tastes and life philosophy, Guardiola told Garcia that since the beginning of his career, he hoped one day to have time to study French, play golf and learn to cook.
“Stopping would do me good.”
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