Mural of Pep Guardiola kissing Jose Mourinho unveiled at Primavera music festival
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A giant mural that showed Manchester City coach Pep Guardiola and Roma boss Jose Mourinho kissing was unveiled in Barcelona. The massive painting was put up at the Primavera Sound Festival.
The image is a twist on the iconic mural that portrayed ex-Soviet Union leader Leonid Brezhnev and his former German Democratic Republic counterpart Erich Honecker at the Berlin Wall. The festival ran for 11 days from June 2 to June 12.
The mural included the message: “My God, Help Me to Survive This Deadly Love,” a message which was also written on the original Brezhnev-Honecker mural. There is also another text beside the mural, which reads: “Barcelona + Madrid = Primavera Sound. Diversity, Culture, Tolerance.”
The artwork initially showed Ada Colau, mayor of Barcelona, and Isabel Diaz Ayuso, president of the Community of Madrid, in a passionate kiss as a depiction of love between the two cities. However, the two figures were subsequently replaced by Guardiola and Mourinho.
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Pep Guardiola and Jose Mourinho’s rivalry is one of the most intense managerial rivalries in football history
A fierce rivalry between the two coaches erupted when Guardiola was coach of Barcelona and Mourinho was in charge of Real Madrid. The two teams were involved in intense La Liga and Champions League matches.
Guardiola has faced Mourinho a total of 25 times during his managerial career, more times than any other manager that he has faced with Barcelona, Bayern Munich and Manchester City.
He has won 12 of those meetings, drawing six and losing seven of the remaining 13, with the pair most recently meeting in February last year when City beat Mourinho’s Tottenham Hotspur side 3-0.
Both managers are currently preparing for the new season with their respective clubs. Guardiola is heading into his seventh season with City, winning his fourth league title in England. As for Mourinho, he is going into his second season with Italian side Roma, fresh from winning the Europa Conference League in his maiden campaign. It was the club’s first European trophy for 61 years.
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