Antonio Conte cheekily rubbed salt in Pep Guardiola’s wounds by revealing he met the Manchester City supervisor’s “idol” Julia Roberts throughout his time as Chelsea boss.
Guardiola revealed his admiration for the Hollywood star following City’s 7-0 rout of RB Leipzig to attain the Champions League quarter-finals on Tuesday.
The Catalan coach, although, revealed a private disappointment that Roberts selected to go to City’s rivals Manchester United throughout a 2016 journey, and mentioned that snub would make him a “failure” no matter whether or not his facet win the Champions League this season or not.
“I have three idols in my life: Michael Jordan, Tiger Woods and Julia Roberts. These are my three idols. For obvious reasons, Michael Jordan and Tiger Woods deserve it, and Julia Roberts as well,” Guardiola mentioned.
“Julia Roberts, years in the past, got here to Manchester. Not within the Nineties, when Alex Ferguson win titles, titles, titles and titles. She got here within the interval after we had been higher than United, these 4 or 5 years.
“And she went to go to Man United. She didn’t come to see us. So, even when I win the Champions League, it can’t evaluate to the actual fact Julia Roberts got here to Manchester and didn’t come to see us. My idol.
“That’s why no matter what happens, even if I win the Champions League, it will not make up for the disappointment I had.”
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Spurs boss Conte has now added to his rival boss’ misery by talking about his personal encounter with the ‘Pretty Woman’ star.
“Julia Roberts? She also came [to a match] when I was at Chelsea,” he mentioned.
“She watched the sport after which I had the likelihood to present her into the dressing room.
“It’s good that an important person like Julia Roberts likes football. I think it’s important for football.”
Asked if Guardiola is a “failure”, Conte replied: “It’s regular for giant coaches at necessary golf equipment to attempt to win each competitors, and we all know very properly for Pep – one of the vital necessary coaches on this planet – the significance of successful the Champions League after seven years with Manchester City.
“During your profession, generally failure is a part of your job and it pushes you to develop into stronger and make your self higher.
“For the big coaches, the expectation is to lift a trophy. It’s the same for me here, and if we don’t lift a trophy the first responsibility falls on the coach. I know the expectations of myself are really high.”
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