{"id":478652,"date":"2024-02-20T09:37:50","date_gmt":"2024-02-20T13:37:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=478652"},"modified":"2024-02-20T09:37:50","modified_gmt":"2024-02-20T13:37:50","slug":"pep-apologizes-to-kalvin-for-overweight-comments","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/pep-apologizes-to-kalvin-for-overweight-comments\/","title":{"rendered":"Pep apologizes to Kalvin for &#8216;overweight&#8217; comments"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Sky Blues head coach, Pep Guardiola, has apologized to Kalvin Phillips for sharing that the midfielder was &#8220;overweight&#8221; on his return from the Qatar World Cup.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Man City manager Pep Guardiola has apologised to Kalvin Phillips for calling him overweight when the midfielder returned from the 2022 World Cup \ud83d\udde3\ufe0f <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Aech8Z55o8\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/Aech8Z55o8<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Sky Sports News (@SkySportsNews) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SkySportsNews\/status\/1759856906707894709?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">February 20, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Pep made the comments in December 2022, revealing to the reporters why Kalvin had been left out of his selection for a Carabao Cup 4<sup>th<\/sup> round match vs. Liverpool.<\/p>\n<p>Phillips admitted Guardiola\u2019s words were &#8220;a big knock to my confidence&#8221; when asked about them at the beginning of February.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m sorry,&#8221; the Manchester City manager claimed. &#8220;I do apologize to Phillips. I&#8217;m so sorry.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Pep added that he spoke to Kalvin, who inked with the Hammers on loan in January, about the problem when the midfielder returned from a short break immediately after the World Cup.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I did speak about that,&#8221; revealed Guardiola. &#8220;I never before shared something here with the reporters without speaking to the footballer.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Kalvin&#8217;s period at West Ham has been difficult so far as he was sent off for 2 yellow cards within 3 minutes in the past weekend as his team lost 2-0 vs. Nottingham Forest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Sky Blues head coach, Pep Guardiola, has apologized to Kalvin Phillips for sharing that the midfielder was &#8220;overweight&#8221; on his return from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":478653,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[21528,17183,17412,17317],"news_category":[136,14235,14084],"gn_keywords":[21529,18121,17886,677],"acf":{"announce":"Guardiola shared that he regrets that comment publicly about his midfielder weight.","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\/478652"}],"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=478652"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/478652\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":478655,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/478652\/revisions\/478655"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/478653"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=478652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=478652"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=478652"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=478652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}