“Guardiola broke down in tears when my father had cancer” – Hojbjerg

Pierre-Emile Hojbjerg has revealed how Pep Guardiola got emotional, after he was told about his father’s cancer.
The 18-year-old midfielder, is yet to break into the Bayern Munich’ first team, but is considered a huge talent. His father was diagnosed with stomach cancer in August and was given little chance of survival.
“I was heartbroken,” he told gathered reporters at a Danish award ceremony after being given the talent of the year accolade. “I went back to the club and I just started crying. I was completely destroyed.

“Uli Hoeness picked me up and immediately began to help me. He contacted the best doctors in Germany and got my father down here, where they began to treat him.
“Guardiola called me in and said: ‘I have heard about your father, I am extremely sorry. Let’s just talk,’” Hojbjerg added to DK Sporten. “And I just started to cry and I said I was bewildered and scared.
“Then he said to me: ‘The people you love the most and who you are closest to, you need to hold on to them, even if it costs you at work’. And then he began to cry and I did not know what to say.