{"id":473516,"date":"2023-12-19T21:07:18","date_gmt":"2023-12-20T01:07:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=473516"},"modified":"2023-12-19T21:07:18","modified_gmt":"2023-12-20T01:07:18","slug":"pep-club-world-cup-triumph-once-in-a-lifetime-chance","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/pep-club-world-cup-triumph-once-in-a-lifetime-chance\/","title":{"rendered":"Pep: Club World Cup triumph &#8216;once in a lifetime&#8217; chance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Sky Blues&#8217; head coach, Pep Guardiola, has admitted he told his footballers they will get a &#8220;once in a lifetime&#8221; chance to take home the Club World Cup trophy on Friday.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">\ud83d\udde3 &#8220;It&#8217;s a trophy [that] maybe you play once in a lifetime.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Pep Guardiola comments on fixture congestion and pitch condition after Manchester City reach the Club World Cup final \ud83c\udf0e\ud83c\udfc6 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/g8IQv3duwA\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/g8IQv3duwA<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Sky Sports News (@SkySportsNews) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SkySportsNews\/status\/1737224736227361094?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">December 19, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The Premier League team advanced to the match for the trophy after a 3-0 victory against Urawa Red Diamonds in their \u00bd final today.<\/p>\n<p>They will play against South American champions Fluminense in Friday&#8217;s final in Saudi Arabia.<\/p>\n<p>The Sky Blues are the big favorite to win their 5<sup>th<\/sup> title in 2023, but Pep has warned his players against taking it for granted.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Our team will dine together, create an environment where everyone knows how important the match is for the entire team,&#8221; said Guardiola.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;As I said, to play in the match for the trophy at the Club World Cup, you have to do phenomenal things and triumph with the UCL. Once we&#8217;re here, it&#8217;s a title you play for once in a lifetime.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Pep Guardiola has won the Club World Cup every time he&#8217;s participated in the competition:<\/p>\n<p>\u25c9 2009 &#8211; Barcelona<br \/>\n\u25c9 2011 &#8211; Barcelona<br \/>\n\u25c9 2013 &#8211; Bayern<br \/>\n\u25ce 2023 &#8211; Man City \u23f3<\/p>\n<p>A perfect start. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/53fdLlrkfF\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/53fdLlrkfF<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Squawka (@Squawka) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Squawka\/status\/1737199383622385832?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">December 19, 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>The Sky Blues&#8217; head coach, Pep Guardiola, has admitted he told his footballers they will get a &#8220;once in a lifetime&#8221; chance to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":473517,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[17183,17412],"news_category":[14235,14084],"gn_keywords":[18121,677],"acf":{"announce":"The Manchester City's manager claimed that winning the CWC is a once in a lifetime opportunity,","video":["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\/473516"}],"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=473516"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/473516\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":473519,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/473516\/revisions\/473519"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/473517"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=473516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=473516"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=473516"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=473516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}