This Video Does Not Depict Pep Guardiola Celebrating His Team’s Victory While Naked
The Claim
The video depicts Pep Guardiola celebrating the Premier League title, while naked, in the Manchester City dressing room.
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News websites, social media accounts, and pages, across the MENA region, have recently circulated a clip claiming it depicts Manchester City football team’s coach, Pep Guardiola, celebrating the team’s victory in the English Premier League, naked in the dressing room.
Photo Description: The claim being shared online.
Misbar’s Analysis
Misbar has investigated the claim and found it to be misleading. The person who appears naked in the dressing room after Manchester City's match against Aston Villa is not Pep Guardiola. He is the manager of the team's dressing room, Brandon Ashton.
The Video Does Not Show Guardiola
Our team has found longer and clearer videos and photos from Manchester City’s dressing room uploaded online after the Aston Villa match. It turned out that the person who was celebrating the victory after he took off his clothes was not Guardiola. Several articles indicated that he is Brandon Ashton, the team’s dressing room manager.
Photo description: Other pictures of Brandon Ashton in the dressing room.
Who Is Brandon Ashton?
Ashton is the dressing room manager at the Manchester City football club, also known as Manchester City's kit man. After checking the photos that Brandon posted on his personal Instagram account, it turned out that he was indeed the one who appeared in the circulating footage.
Guardiola In the Dressing Room
After the match, Pep Guardiola appeared in a video in the dressing room, congratulating the players on winning the league title. But he was not the person celebrating naked, as many social media users claimed.
The claim began to circulate after Manchester City retained the English Premier League title for this season, beating Aston Villa 3-2 in the last round on May 22, 2022, at the Etihad Stadium.
Translated by Khadija Boufous
