{"id":71381,"date":"2026-08-10T23:23:03","date_gmt":"2026-08-10T23:23:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/freesuperpredict.com\/blog\/?p=71381"},"modified":"2026-08-10T23:23:05","modified_gmt":"2026-08-10T23:23:05","slug":"pep-guardiola-came-very-close-to-becoming-the-new-italy-manager","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/freesuperpredict.com\/blog\/2026\/08\/10\/pep-guardiola-came-very-close-to-becoming-the-new-italy-manager\/","title":{"rendered":"Pep Guardiola came VERY CLOSE to becoming the new Italy manager!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Paolo Maldini travelled to Barcelona to meet Guardiola, with the pair spending an entire day discussing the project.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"16\" width=\"16\" alt=\"\ud83d\udde3\ufe0f\" src=\"https:\/\/static.xx.fbcdn.net\/images\/emoji.php\/v9\/tfb\/1\/16\/1f5e3.png\"> \u201cHe was very tempted. He came very close to accepting. He even started writing line-ups down on sheets of paper.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Guardiola ultimately REJECTED the opportunity due to exhaustion after 10 intense years at Manchester City. He wants to take a break and had already promised his family they would return to live in Barcelona.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">(Source: @MailSport)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">See less<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Paolo Maldini travelled to Barcelona to meet Guardiola, with the pair spending an entire day discussing the project. \u201cHe was very tempted. He came very<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":71382,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71381","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sport-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/freesuperpredict.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71381","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/freesuperpredict.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/freesuperpredict.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freesuperpredict.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freesuperpredict.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71381"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/freesuperpredict.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71381\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71383,"href":"https:\/\/freesuperpredict.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71381\/revisions\/71383"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freesuperpredict.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/71382"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/freesuperpredict.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freesuperpredict.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freesuperpredict.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}