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Pep Guardiola: "The world has left Palestine alone. We’ve done absolutely nothing. They’re not at fault for being born there. We’ve all allowed Israel to destroy an entire people. The damage is alread (www.rac1.cat)

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[–] Blaze@piefed.zip 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Getting generational wealth and being able to create a team with unlimited money? I would have done the same as he did

[–] jjpamsterdam@feddit.org 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

He was already paid handsomely at Barcelona and Bayern, both of which are not pr departments for oil rich slave states and both of which are fairly strong. I could understand your reasoning if it were a choice between what he does and unemployment/poverty, but that's simply not the case. He willingly plays the role of a pr figure representing a slave state despite having any number of different options.

[–] Blaze@piefed.zip 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Do you hold everyone involved with any player or coach working for a Qatari/Saudi/UAE owned club to the same standard? Because that's a lot of people in modern football.

[–] jjpamsterdam@feddit.org 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I try to, yes. Don't you expect at least a baseline of moral consistency from human beings advocating for moral causes?

I don't mind people working for state owned companies, even if I would rather not have them in football. What I object to is someone as morally compromised on this issue taking a moral high ground on a different issue. I really don't suppose Guardiola would speak out on the behalf of political prisoners in the UAE.

[–] Blaze@piefed.zip 1 points 1 month ago

I don't know, I feel like people can both advocate for moral cause while not being morally impeccable.

I'm going to be honest with you, sometimes I just feel like dropping modern professional football as a whole. The whole industry is corrupted as hell, FIFA is supporting petrostates dictatorships, national leagues try to optimize their profit by any way possible, clubs are owned more and more by investors who just see them as financial products and don't care about the game itself.

I'm really considering stopping following professional football and just go to my local stadium to follow a team at 4th division level.

So yeah, considering all of that, having a coach like Guardiola making this kind of statements isn't too bad in my perspective.