How ‘seductive’ Man City boss Pep Guardiola wooed wife Cristina away from her TV career – and took her advice on tactics
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MANCHESTER City boss Pep Guardiola has been so stressed out in recent months he has sworn at autograph hunters and bled from scratching his head. He is suffering the worst run of results in an impeccable career. After winning six Premier League titles in seven years, his usually invincible team went seven games without a victory.
![[Pep Guardiola with his wife, Cristina Serra, at Wimbledon.]](https://www.thesun.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/d15a05ca-33d2-4117-bf79-d1839a704e28.jpg?strip=all&w=620)
And they’ve had just three victories in the last ten Prem matches. But now it seems his bizarre behaviour could also be a response to the end of his marriage to teenage sweetheart Cristina Serra. It was revealed this week that the 53-year-old football legend has split from the mother of his three children after 30 years.
![[Pep Guardiola, manager of Manchester City, looking distressed during a soccer match.]](https://www.thesun.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/pep-guardiola-manager-manchester-city-963694762.jpg?strip=all&w=960)
The couple were said to have called it a day FIVE YEARS ago but kept the news under wraps until officially parting ways last month. A well-informed source in Pep’s homeland of Spain said: “I can assure you they’re living apart and only a handful of people knew about this.”.
![[Pep Guardiola kissing his wife after Manchester City won the UEFA Champions League.]](https://www.thesun.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/2022-23-final-match-fc-963544396_449ab2.jpg?strip=all&w=960)
The announcement of the break-up was preceded by his worst ever run as a manager, with his once invincible side losing five games in a row before Christmas. There had been rumours that all was not been well with the relationship for a while. In 2019, Cristina, 52, moved back to Barcelona with the couple’s youngest daughter, Valentina, 17, while Pep stayed in Manchester.
![[Pep Guardiola with scratches on his head and a bloody nose.]](https://www.thesun.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/pep-guardiolas-scratched-head-952445839_a27a58.jpg?strip=all&w=891)
But in public, Pep’s love for Cristina, who he married in 2014, seemed to be as strong as ever. They spent this Christmas together and were in the Royal Box on Centre Court at Wimbledon last summer, after previously being spotted on idyllic holidays and sharing an emotional kiss after Man City won the Champions League for the first time in 2023.
![[Pep Guardiola with his family at an award ceremony.]](https://www.thesun.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/5fcb33f7-9415-4fcc-a865-ee115ab7b5f4.jpg?strip=all&w=635)
