Pep Guardiola’s emotional rock is wife and partner of 35 years Cristina Serra and family including model daughter Maria

MAN CITY brag Pep Guardiola is successful request of his family's enactment much than ever.

The Catalonian tactician, 53, chopped a frustrated fig aft seeing his broadside propulsion distant a 3-0 pb successful the Champions League against Feyenoord.

Incredibly, the Premier League champions are present winless successful six games, and it has Guardiola scratching his head... literally.

In an interrogation aft the game, helium was seen with scratches connected his caput and nose.

Guardiola was quizzed astir however helium got the chopped connected his chemoreceptor and responded by saying: "My finger, present [makes a scratching motion]. My nail.

The Spaniard past joked that City's woeful form implicit the past fewer weeks has driven him to self-harm, saying: "I privation to harm myself."

Guardiola later apologised for his comments and insisted helium wasn't making airy of intelligence wellness issues.

In the aftermath of City's atrocious form, and the worst tally successful Guardiola's career, helium volition beryllium capable to thin connected his wife and spouse of 35 years Cristina Serra.

While his kids volition besides connection a distraction distant from the stresses of shot management.

SunSport looks astatine the enactment squad down the world's top coach.

The missus

Pep met beauteous Cristina successful Catalonia, erstwhile they were conscionable starry-eyed teenagers.

She comes from a manner household dynasty, who ain the Serra Claret boutique successful Barcelona.

It was determination their paths crossed for the archetypal time.

Guardiola, past a younker star, was doing a modelling sprout for the precocious Spanish decorator Antonio Miro successful the shop, erstwhile helium fixed his regard connected his aboriginal missus.

They yet walked down the aisle successful 2014 astatine a municipality hallway connected the outskirts of Barcelona.

Earlier successful the year, helium revealed his woman is his manner guru.

He said: “My woman is the champion successful the satellite astatine galore things, but particularly successful fashion. So she says usually to me, don't deterioration this oregon deterioration that, truthful I travel her.

"I americium astute capable to cognize that erstwhile radical are overmuch much amended than me, travel their proposal and hers is truly good.”

Whenever City sensation success, Cristina is often seen astatine the Etihad alongside Guardiola.

She happily poses with the trophies his squad has won, alongside their kids.

Model daughter

Pep's eldest kid is daughter Maria, 23, who has branched retired connected her own.

To astir 1 cardinal followers connected Instagram, she shares her glam lifestyle.

Unsurprisingly, the quality is simply a exemplary and has appeared successful sexy bikini shoots for swimwear marque iBilovesyou.

She besides erstwhile reportedly dated a footballer.

Back successful 2021, Maria was spotted with ex-Spurs prima Dele Alli successful a romanticist clinch.

As we exclusively revealed, the brace didn't attraction who saw them arsenic they snogged each different astatine Cloud 9 rooftop barroom successful beforehand of the DJ booth.

A fewer months later, they were spotted getting lunch at trendy Mayfair hotspot Novikov, earlier grabbing a java astatine Starbucks.

However, six months aboriginal it was reported that Alli had divided with Maria.

Family time

In 2023, aft Pep's astir gruelling and palmy play arsenic City brag - winning the treble - household clip was important.

Pep and Cristina took their 3 children connected a travel of a beingness to sojourn to Egypt.

Maria, lad Marius, 21, and youngest girl Valentina, 16, joined their parents to circuit Cairo and Luxor and sojourn the Sphinx and Great Pyramid of Giza.

Wearing a achromatic outfit and a reddish shot headdress bearing the missive P, Guardiola received a peculiar ‘Pharaoh’ trophy successful photos taken by officials astatine the Ministry of Tourism.

Showing a household that each propulsion the aforesaid mode together, they were each dressed successful neutral shades of white, arsenic they beamed for photos.

They're a enactment strategy for Pep that ne'er wanes.