MAN CITY boss Pep Guardiola has outlined his ambition to manage a national team at the World Cup.
Guardiola has made his intentions to move away from club football and could do so at the end of his contract in 2025.
EPAPep Guardiola has England internationals like Kyle Walker in his City squad.[/caption]
GettyGuardiola has ambitions of managing at a World Cup despite winning the Champions League on three occasions.[/caption]
The 53-year-old has won tons of silverware in his time at City and also across the top leagues in Europe at Barcelona and Bayern Munich.
The Spaniard has won a total of 32 major trophies across his managerial career and he is the second manager after Sir Alex Ferguson back in 1999 to have won a treble in English football.
Guardiola has been linked to roles in international football especially the England job as he has worked with England internationals throughout his time at the club.
With Gareth Southgate‘s contract due to expire after this year’s Euros, Guardiola’s ambitions to work in international football would be appealing to The FA.
Speaking to ESPN Brazil, Guardiola has expressed his ambitions of working at a major international tournament.
Guardiola said: “I would like to have the experience of living through a World Cup, or a Euro or a Copa America, or whatever it is. I would like that.”
Despite expressing his interest working on the international stage, he insists the country would have to make it clear he was their No1 choice for the job.
Guardiola added: “I don’t know who would want me.
“To work for a national team they have to want you, just like a club,”
The Man City manager further explained in his interview that he would never have imagined winning major honours as a manager when he first started.
He went to explain that managing at a World Cup would be the pinnacle.
Guardiola explained: “I don’t know when that would be, if that is five, 10, 15 years from now but I would like to have the experience of being a manager in a World Cup.”
Guardiola completed a full house of club trophies in Manchester after Man City beat Fluminense last year to win the Fifa Club World Cup.
He said then: “I had a feeling all the titles you can win, we have done it. It’s unbelievable what we have done.
“We try to buy a new book and start to write beautiful histories.
“The players out there are still hungry and motivated, I’m really pleased for many people in the club for many years.
“I could never think when we arrived in Manchester we could do this and finish with the World Cup.”