Pep Guardiola couldn’t keep it in after Thierry Henry’s painfully tricky question at The Best FIFA Football Awards.

The Manchester City manager had just been named the 2023 Coach of the Year, and stayed on stage as the FIFPro Men’s Best XI was read out.

Guardiola bleated out the F word, to much laughter

The team included six City players from their treble-winning heroics, the highest number since Guardiola’s last treble with Barcelona in 2009.

Henry, who was part of that team, asked his old coach a brutally difficult question, saying: “Which is the best team? All the best…”

“F” Guardiola replied, to much laughter.

“I don’t know, it would be a good game. I don’t know, both are incredible teams so honestly. That period in Barcelona was incredible, we were so young.

“But this team as well in England, the Premier League is really tough and so competitive.”

Adding more on his teams, Guardiola said: “Barcelona is the club of my heart, they are the reason why I am here.

“But doing it with Man City, 15 or 20 years ago we were not here. We have built step by step since Roberto Mancini was here.

“Those years ago, we could not expect to be here.”

During the FIFA The Best 2023 Awards Gala on the morning of January 16, Pep received the award for best male coach of the year. The Catalan strategist led Man City to a treble last season, winning the Champions League, Premier League and FA Cup.

Thanks to the above achievement, 6 Man City players were named in FIFA’s team of the year, including defenders John Stones, Kyle Walker and Ruben Dias, midfielder duo Bernardo Silva and Kevin De Bruyne alongside striker Erling Haaland. .

That was the second time in his coaching career that Pep led a team to win the Champions League, national championship and national cup. Henry is the player who appeared in the 2008/09 Barca squad, when Pep won the treble for the first time in his career. That’s why the former French player had a sensitive question for Pep.