{"id":23283,"date":"2026-02-04T08:49:43","date_gmt":"2026-02-04T06:49:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jhb-webdevelopers\/channelafrica\/news\/guardiola-vows-to-speak-up-for-victims-of-global-conflicts\/"},"modified":"2026-02-27T16:34:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T14:34:07","slug":"guardiola-vows-to-speak-up-for-victims-of-global-conflicts","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/guardiola-vows-to-speak-up-for-victims-of-global-conflicts\/","title":{"rendered":"Guardiola vows to speak up for victims of global conflicts"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Pep Guardiola said he will continue to use his platform as Manchester City manager to speak up for victims of global conflicts and violence.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Guardiola was speaking at a pre\u2011match press conference ahead of City&#8217;s League Cup semifinal second leg against Newcastle United, five days after he voiced support for children in the occupied Palestinian territories at a charity concert in Barcelona.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>&#8220;Never, ever in the history of humanity have we had the information in front of our eyes watching more clearly than now,&#8221; Guardiola told reporters on Tuesday in Manchester.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>&#8220;The genocide in Palestine, what happened in Ukraine, what happened in Russia, what happened all around the world &#8211; in Sudan, everywhere,&#8221; he said, referring to the Israeli-occupied Palestinian territories.<\/div>\n<div>&#8220;What happened in front of us? Do you want to see it? It&#8217;s our problems as human beings. It&#8217;s our problems.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div>He said society must work collectively to improve.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>&#8220;Look what happened in the United States (US), Renee Good and Alex Pretti were killed. Tell me how you can defend that,&#8221; Guardiola said. The fatal shootings of the two US citizens by federal immigration agents sparked widespread protests in the US.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>&#8220;When I see the images, I am sorry it hurts. That is why in every position I can help speak up to be a better society, I will try and will be there. All the time. It is for my kids, my families, for you.<\/div>\n<div>\n&#8220;There is not a perfect society, nowhere is perfect, I am not perfect, we have to work to be better.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>&#8211;Reuters&#8211;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":23284,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"news-type":[20],"class_list":["post-23283","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-sport","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"Guardiola was speaking at a pre\u2011match press conference ahead of City's League Cup semifinal second leg.","published_date":null,"news_description":"Guardiola was speaking at a pre\u2011match press conference ahead of City's League Cup semifinal second leg.","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/23283","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/23283\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26300,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/23283\/revisions\/26300"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23284"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=23283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}