Pep Guardiola was allegedly chastised as a football player for allegedly walking the catwalk as a model before stopping one of his own colleagues from following suit.
During his playing career, he has the aesthetics to be regarded as a model; you can see him on the 1993 catwalk for Catalan fashion designer Antonio Miro.
However, it seems like it wasn’t his best career decision, as it actually landed the former midfielder in trouble at the Nou Camp, as Miro’s son David explained.
“Pep asked my father in the 90s if he could model for him. My dad was an FC Barcelona supporter, so he liked the idea and said yes,” David told Mundial magazine.
“Johan Cruyff punished Pep afterwards for being unprofessional.”
And the former Bayern Munich manager obviously learned from that incident, and took up the mantra of ‘do as I say, not as I do.’
The fashion designer’s son revealed that one of Guardiola’s players tried to be involved years later, but the 52-year-old wouldn’t let him.
“When some years later Barcelona’s defender Gerard Pique asked the same to my father, Guardiola didn’t let him,” the younger Miro added.
“The funny thing about it all is that every single garment Guardiola wore in that show was sold out in a few days.”