{"id":34539,"date":"2025-09-15T03:36:16","date_gmt":"2025-09-15T07:36:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/foden-and-guardiola-dedicate-citys-victory-to-ricky-hatton-boxing-legend\/"},"modified":"2025-09-15T03:36:16","modified_gmt":"2025-09-15T07:36:16","slug":"foden-and-guardiola-dedicate-citys-victory-to-ricky-hatton-boxing-legend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/soccer\/foden-and-guardiola-dedicate-citys-victory-to-ricky-hatton-boxing-legend\/","title":{"rendered":"Foden and Guardiola dedicate City’s victory to Ricky Hatton, boxing legend"},"content":{"rendered":"Phil Foden and Pep Guardiola dedicated Manchester City’s 3-0 victory over Manchester United in the derby to British boxing legend Ricky Hatton.\n\nThe news of the death of Hatton, who was a fervent City supporter, at the age of 46, emerged a few hours before the start of the match.\n\nCity expressed its “devastation” and a minute of applause was held before the match.\n\nFoden, who scored City’s first goal, and Erling Haaland, who added two more goals, paid tribute to Hatton.\n\n

100%. I had extra motivation going into the match. It was for him and his family and for the people who are suffering at the moment. The lads gave it their all. It wasn’t a pretty game, but it was all for him.<\/p>Phil Foden<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\nBefore the match, Foden had expressed his sorrow for Hatton’s family.\n\n

\n\n Phil Foden and Pep Guardiola pay tribute to Ricky Hatton.\n<\/a>\n<\/p>\n\nCity coach Guardiola added after the match:\n\n

I’ve been here 10 years and there have been many moments of silence, but I don’t remember anything as intense as today. Thanks to the Man United fans for their behavior and applause. I know he was world boxing champion and it was a special moment.<\/p>Pep Guardiola<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\nGuardiola also highlighted the importance of Hatton as a Manchester City fan.\n\nBefore the match, everyone present in the stadium paid a heartfelt tribute to one of Manchester’s most recognized athletes.\n\nThe City statement highlighted Hatton as a British boxing icon and a much-loved and respected supporter of the club.\n\nUnited also sent their condolences to Hatton’s loved ones.\n\nCity’s ex-captain, Vincent Kompany, and Oasis frontman, Liam Gallagher, also expressed their sadness at Hatton’s loss.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Phil Foden and Pep Guardiola dedicated Manchester City’s 3-0 victory over Manchester United in the derby to British boxing legend Ricky Hatton. The news of the death of Hatton, who was a fervent City supporter, at the age of 46, emerged a few hours before the start of the match. City expressed its “devastation” and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":34540,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[205,1200,2904,5468],"class_list":{"0":"post-34539","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-soccer","8":"tag-boxing","9":"tag-manchester-city","10":"tag-phil-foden","11":"tag-ricky-hatton"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34539","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=34539"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34539\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34540"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}