Samuel Eto'o and Chelsea striker Revealed secrets of his complex
relationship with Bayern Munich coach, Pep Guardiola, when the Spanish was in
Barcelona.
Eto'o pointed out that the first clash with Guardiola was
after the arrival of the latter for the post of technical director for Barca in
the summer of 2008 when he asked the former president of Barca Joan Laporta,
the departure all of Cameroon striker, Ronaldinho and Deco.
The player said in an interview with Channel "ABN
Sports": "mentioned in the first place that he was not a great
player, but a good player only, we knew him only as a player but as a coach he
has not shown anything to lead a team like Barca, did not even know the nature
of the team to ask for such things.”
Eto'o explained that most of what is regretted that
Guardiola did not equip himself with the courage to "say these things in
the face."
The attacker said "it was more what makes me upset is
to resort to inventing and innovating things do not exist to be published later
in the press", citing the example of rumor where there is a desire to
agree to move to a club of Uzbekistan.
Regarding this matter he pointed out that in one day, he entered
Guardiola office and when the newspaper published the rumor, his coach said,
"I think it will go well with you, to go there."
And the player added, “told him then that Eto'o will bring
you from winning and you will apologize to me, and kept my place and continued
training," adding that Guardiola played down his respect to him in more
than one position.
And Eto'o hit another example when Guardiola granting jersey
No. 9 Frenchman Terry Henry in a match, where he completed "I could not
accept it, provided much of the club and off the field, I always there for my
colleagues."
He explained that the Cameroonian also felt resentful of
Guardiola when he was giving him instructions on how to attack although before
retiring he was a midfielder.
Eto'o highlighted that over time have improved the
relationship with him, but that when they met again in the semi-finals of the
Champions League in 2010, where the Cameroonian was then in the ranks of Italian
Inter Milan, Guardiola has not greatened him.
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