Manchester City boss Pep Guardiola on Thomas Tuchel's appointment as England manager
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00:00Thomas Tuchel was appointed as the England manager this week.
00:03Eddie Howe this morning has already said he wasn't approached.
00:07Was there any approach from the Football Association to you at all?
00:10Manager Thomas Tuchel is the manager, so let's congratulate him for the FAE
00:16and Thomas for a big job.
00:20And I wish him England, just for the fact that, of course,
00:25I'm nine years here, the very, very best for both of them.
00:29It's obviously provoked a bit of a debate about whether the England coach
00:33should be an Englishman.
00:36As someone yourself who's worked here for nine years now,
00:39do you think there is an issue with the amount of elite coaches
00:42that England is producing?
00:45Look, there is one thing, like every human being, no intervene, zero intervene.
00:51It's where we're born.
00:54We don't decide that.
00:56Mum and Dad decide in certain moments, and nine months later we are here.
01:00But we don't decide.
01:02I didn't decide to be Catalan.
01:04I didn't decide to be English.
01:08So that is a reality, the influence.
01:10So I understand completely the people, it is normal, you know,
01:13to be manager for the national team when you were born.
01:17But at the same time, in this world, in this world,
01:22when an English manager is, you know, FA and national from the UK,
01:27is going bad, bad, he will be destroyed.
01:30So he is a question of results.
01:32And now the federation from the UK decide for a foreign manager
01:38with a well-known, recognised for his talent, and I wish him the very best.
01:43So my point of view can be some opinions,
01:47but I would like to support him unconditionally,
01:49because he will represent your country the very best.
01:52He will represent for his knowledge, for his wisdom, to do the best.
01:57And if he wins, we will be completely prized,
01:59and if he loses, we won't be criticised.
02:01But it doesn't matter if he is a foreigner or not a foreigner.
02:04The federation decides he is the right person to lead this transition
02:08and follow the incredible job that Gareth Saltgate has done,
02:11and it is going to happen.
02:15So I know we are proud, you know, where we are, where we were born,
02:19where we live, the education that we had.
02:21But the world is so big, so big, and you have to be open-minded, you know.
02:27I came here to learn from all of you.
02:29So I'm not here to give you my experience from other countries.
02:33I came here to give what I know, but to get a lot.
02:37That is what it's all about.
02:38Look what happened today all around the world,
02:40in the wars we have, because you believe you are better than the other one.
02:45What happened in Russia, in Israel, in Ukraine, in Gaza,
02:49in all these places in Africa.
02:51So it's terrible, just because we believe we are better than the other one,
02:54and we are not.
02:55It's just who we are.
02:57We try to travel, we try all around the world to share experience,
03:01to meet people, and that makes us absolutely better.
03:05And I think they decide to support 100%, like what happened before with Gareth
03:09and the very best from England and all the people.
03:12But I don't like to just be criticised for just the fact
03:16you were born in one place, like you didn't intervene.
03:20I'm not guilty to be Catalan, I'm not, so I just was born there.
03:25But after I learned a lot there and in Germany and in Mexico
03:31and in the Middle East and now in England,
03:34and I have incredible friends everywhere, and that is what it is.