Manchester City manager Pep Guardiola was over the moon after winning the UEFA Champions League (UCL) on Saturday.
City won their first UCL title after beating Inter Milan 1-0, thanks to a strike by Rodri, in the final in Istanbul.
“Sometimes it looks like this competition this year, this final was written in the stars,” Guardiola reflected after the final whistle.
“The goal, the chances they had. Ederson’s save where in extra-time you could lose the game.
“I will be the same person and we will be the same team and we will be the same Club. Today was our year, but in the past to do it of course we are incredibly satisfied to achieve something unique, the Treble for this club.
“The feeling I have right now is we leave the Champions League and give credit to the five Premier Leagues. In seven years, two FA Cups, four Carabao Cups, Community Shields.
“That gives credit to what we have done. We have to win Europe to be considered one of the really good teams and we win it.
“Suffering, you could expect it because Inter is an exceptional team. Physicality that battles to win.
“Sometimes you need this type of luck that in the past, against Tottenham and in other games, the final against Chelsea, we didn’t have it. Today we had it.”
Pep Guardiola has won the treble for the second time in his managerial career, while he's the first ever manager to do so with two different clubs (Barcelona in 2008-09 and Manchester City in 2022-23).
Manchester City became the sixth English team to win the European Cup/UEFA Champions League, after Aston Villa, Chelsea, Liverpool, Manchester United and Nottingham Forest – twice as many sides than any other nation (3 – Germany, Italy and Netherlands).