{"id":444210,"date":"2023-07-25T13:31:41","date_gmt":"2023-07-25T17:31:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=444210"},"modified":"2023-07-25T13:31:41","modified_gmt":"2023-07-25T17:31:41","slug":"gundogan-pep-taught-me-everything-in-football","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/gundogan-pep-taught-me-everything-in-football\/","title":{"rendered":"G\u00fcndogan: &#8220;Pep taught me everything in football&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ilkay G\u00fcndogan spoke in front of ESPN and claimed that he &#8220;didn&#8217;t know anything about football&#8221; before his time in Manchester City with Pep Guardiola, while also sharing positive words for his new head coach Xavi Hern\u00e1ndez as \u201cfantastic\u201d and his new side as having a \u201cgreat potential.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ilkay (32) joined Barcelona on a free transfer at the beginning of July after his deal with the Sky Blues expired.<\/p>\n<p>G\u00fcndogan triumphed with 5 Premier Leagues, 2 FA Cups, 4 League Cups, and the Champions League being Man. City player, as he was part of the Sky Blues treble in the past campaign.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Before I joined the Sky Blues, I thought I knew football,&#8221; the player shared with ESPN. &#8220;I was 25 or 26 years old; I have been around the game for a long time. I&#8217;d played a Champions League final. But now, standing here after 7 years of Guardiola\u2019s school, I must admit that I didn\u2019t know anything about the game in the past. His influence on the side and me personally was enormous.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Ilkay G\u00fcndogan says he &#8220;didn&#8217;t know anything about football&#8221; before playing for Pep Guardiola \ud83d\udc99 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/kvLznWP4MG\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/kvLznWP4MG<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 ESPN FC (@ESPNFC) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ESPNFC\/status\/1683877271646478336?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">July 25, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ilkay G\u00fcndogan spoke in front of ESPN and claimed that he &#8220;didn&#8217;t know anything about football&#8221; before his time in Manchester City with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":444211,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[16911,17183,17412,17317],"news_category":[136,14235],"gn_keywords":[19387,18121,17886,677],"acf":{"announce":"Ilkay shared that he didn't know about football before playing for Guardiola.","video":[]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/444210"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4225"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=444210"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/444210\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/444211"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=444210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=444210"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=444210"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=444210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}