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Dad warns Man City: Don't ask Pep to change a light bulb!

The father of Barcelona legend Pep Guardiola has spoken of the moment he knew he had to focus on football.

Guardiola will leave Bayern Munich for Manchester City in the summer.

His father, Valenti, told The Sun: "I was working 10 hours a day from the age of 14 on building sites and didn't stop until I was 66.

"I saw early on there wasn't much danger of him following in my footsteps. The one day I took him out to work with me when he was still a kid, he didn't come back after lunch. He can't even change a light bulb!

"I remember him telling me as an 11-year-old when with his boyhood side, 'Dad, I can't understand lads I play with who are talking about the film they saw last night before they go out on the pitch. They should be thinking about winning'."

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