{"id":11213,"date":"2025-06-18T01:36:05","date_gmt":"2025-06-18T05:36:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/bernardo-silva-new-man-city-captain-guardiola-breaks-tradition\/"},"modified":"2025-06-18T01:36:05","modified_gmt":"2025-06-18T05:36:05","slug":"bernardo-silva-new-man-city-captain-guardiola-breaks-tradition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/soccer\/bernardo-silva-new-man-city-captain-guardiola-breaks-tradition\/","title":{"rendered":"Bernardo Silva, new Man City captain: Guardiola breaks tradition"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Bernardo Silva, New Manchester City Captain by Direct Election of Guardiola<\/h2>\n\n\nManchester City coach Pep Guardiola has appointed Bernardo Silva as the new team captain. This decision marks a significant change, as Guardiola usually lets the players and staff vote to choose the captain.\n\nSilva&#8217;s choice, who could be playing his last season at the club, has been made directly by Guardiola. The vice-captains will be R\u00faben Dias, Rodri, and Erling Haaland.\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>I know what I&#8217;m going to do, but now is not the time to talk about it. I&#8217;m very focused on my season. I&#8217;m very focused on performing well for Man City. When the time comes, I&#8217;ll talk about it.<\/p><cite>Bernardo Silva<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\nSilva, who arrived at the club in 2017 from Monaco, has hinted that he will not extend his contract, which expires in 2026. There have been rumors about a possible return to Benfica, the club of his childhood.\n\nSilva&#8217;s appointment as captain comes after he was part of the City&#8217;s leadership group last season. Guardiola made this unusual decision after observing aspects that &#8220;he didn&#8217;t like&#8221; during the past season.\n\nHaaland, for his part, has been named vice-captain for the first time. Guardiola has mentioned that the Norwegian striker, who signed a long-term contract, could eventually assume the role of main captain.\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>Erling Haaland is very young, but he has to start learning what it means to be a captain, because, hopefully, he will be here many, many years. Sooner or later, he will take that position as the first one.<\/p><cite>Pep Guardiola<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bernardo Silva, New Manchester City Captain by Direct Election of Guardiola Manchester City coach Pep Guardiola has appointed Bernardo Silva as the new team captain. This decision marks a significant change, as Guardiola usually lets the players and staff vote to choose the captain. Silva&#8217;s choice, who could be playing his last season at the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11214,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[4257,1177,1198,1200],"class_list":{"0":"post-11213","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-soccer","8":"tag-bernardo-silva","9":"tag-captain","10":"tag-guardiola","11":"tag-manchester-city"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11213","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11213"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11213\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11214"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}