The year 2024 ended very badly for Pep Guardiola. This was obviously first the case on the pitch, where the Citizens suffered one series of disappointments. To the point of finding themselves left behind in the Premier League title race and being under threat of early elimination in the Champions League. A difficult situation for the Catalan technician, who had also let his discomfort show.
The former midfielder was so bad that he self-harmed in the middle of the match by scratching his face until it bled. But according to Sport, Pep Guardiola was going through a painful ordeal in his personal life at the same time. The Citizens coach and his partner, Cristina Serra, decided this fall to separate after more than thirty years of living together.
Pep Gardiola and his wife have three grown children
Although they have only been married since 2014, the former Barcelona native and the business manager had been a couple since 1994. Parents of three children – Maria (24 years old), Marius (22 years old) and Valentina (17 years old) – maintained nevertheless a long-distance relationship for several years. Cristina Serra had in fact decided to leave Manchester in 2019 to devote herself to her fashion business, dividing her time between her Barcelona stronghold and London, and would be at the origin of this breakup.
Pep Guardiola and Cristina Serra would have remained on good terms despite this separation and the latter would not be irremediable according to the Catalan daily. These revelations come as the Skyblues must confirm their recent recovery this Tuesday at Brentford in the Premier League, with the clash at the top against PSG next week in the Champions League in the back of their minds.
