{"id":25042,"date":"2024-02-11T15:55:32","date_gmt":"2024-02-11T12:55:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/25042\/guardiolas-weight-comment-knocked-my\/"},"modified":"2024-02-11T15:55:33","modified_gmt":"2024-02-11T12:55:33","slug":"guardiolas-weight-comment-knocked-my","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/?p=25042","title":{"rendered":"Guardiola&#8217;s weight comment knocked my confidence &#8211; Phillips"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Guardiola&#8217;s weight comment knocked my confidence &#8211; Phillips\u060c<\/p>\n<div>\n<aside class=\"inline inline-photo full\">\n<figure><picture><source data- media=\"(min-width: 376px)\"><source data- media=\"(max-width: 375px)\"><img class=\" lazyload lazyload\" data-image-container=\".inline-photo\" height=\"320\" width=\"570\"\/><\/source><\/source><\/picture><figcaption class=\"photoCaption\">Kalvin Phillips joined West Ham on loan last month after a difficult spell at Manchester City. <cite>PAUL ELLIS\/AFP via Getty Images<\/cite><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/aside>\n<p>Kalvin Phillips says Pep Guardiola&#39;s comment last year about his weight was the most difficult moment of 18 months at Manchester City before moving to West Ham <a class=\"wpil_keyword_link\" href=\"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/tag\/united\/\"   title=\"United\" data-wpil-keyword-link=\"linked\">United<\/a> on loan last month.<\/p>\n<p>Phillips, 28, represented England at the 2022 World Cup in Qatar but returned home heavier than his club&#39;s target.  Guardiola responded by calling him &#8220;overweight&#8221; and said he was not in good condition to train.<\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8211; Stream on ESPN+: LaLiga, Bundesliga, more (US)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;After the World Cup, it was probably the hardest [period]&#8221;, when Pep came out and said I was overweight&#8230; He was right to do it, but there are different ways to do it,&#8221; Phillips said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I didn&#39;t disagree with him, but obviously my confidence and how I felt at City took a big hit. And my family wasn&#39;t happy about it either. Especially my mother.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was just a misunderstanding and I think he was very frustrated that I was 1.5kg over my goal weight.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Phillips has endured a difficult <a class=\"wpil_keyword_link\" href=\"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/tag\/start\/\"   title=\"start\" data-wpil-keyword-link=\"linked\">start<\/a> to life at West Ham as he bids to retain his place in Gareth Southgate&#39;s England squad ahead of the European Championship in Germany this summer.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Guardiola&#8217;s weight comment knocked my confidence &#8211; Phillips\u060c Kalvin Phillips joined West Ham on loan last month after a difficult spell at Manchester City. PAUL ELLIS\/AFP via Getty Images Kalvin Phillips says Pep Guardiola&#39;s comment last year about his weight was the most difficult moment of 18 months at Manchester City before moving to West [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":25043,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[2141,5966,5348,1197,807,1108],"class_list":["post-25042","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-sports","tag-comment","tag-confidence","tag-guardiolas","tag-knocked","tag-phillips","tag-weight"],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25042","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25042"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25042\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25044,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25042\/revisions\/25044"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/25043"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}