Guardiola backs immigrants after Ratcliffe’s controversial comments | OneFootball

Manchester City coach Pep Guardiola made a new appeal this Friday in favor of welcoming immigrants, two days after anti-immigration statements by Jim Ratcliffe, co-owner of Manchester United.

“Most people flee their countries because of the problems they face, not because they want to leave. The more we embrace other cultures, truly embrace them, the better our society will be,” said Guardiola at a press conference on the eve of the match against Salford City (4th division), for the fourth round of the FA Cup.

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The Spanish coach avoided commenting on Ratcliffe’s words, who a day later regretted his “choice of words,” although without referring to the content of the message.

“I’m not going to comment on what Sir Jim Ratcliffe said because, after that, he said exactly what he wanted to say,” Guardiola stated.

The businessman, founder of the Ineos group, declared that the United Kingdom was being “colonized” by immigrants.

“I have enormous admiration for Sir Jim. I was lucky to meet him. He later made a statement to apologize,” Guardiola continued.

“But the problem we have in every country in the world is that we treat immigrants or people who come from other countries as the cause of the problems our countries have, and that is a very, very, very big problem,” said the Catalan coach, who has lived in countries such as Italy, Qatar, Germany, Mexico, Spain, and the United Kingdom.

* With content from AFP.

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