Cristina Serra spent more than three decades with Pep Guardiola, from meeting him in 1994, while he still played for FC Barcelona, through his entire rise as one of football’s most decorated managers, before the two separated at the end of 2024.
She runs Serra Claret, her family’s well-known Barcelona fashion business, alongside her sister Judith, and has maintained a career and public identity independent of Guardiola’s fame.
Cristina Serra Biography
She was born in 1973 in Barcelona, Spain, to Josep Serra Boada and Montserrat Selvas Tarré. Cristina Serra has a younger sister, Judith, and a brother.
Her family owns Serra Claret, one of Barcelona’s well-known fashion boutiques, a business her grandfather, Josep Serra Claret, founded as a tailoring shop in Manresa in 1933.
Cristina grew up working in the family store from childhood. She was eventually given the opportunity to model as well, an early exposure to the fashion world that shaped her entire career.
Career
Cristina Serra’s professional identity centers on Serra Claret, the family fashion business her grandfather, Josep Serra Claret, founded as a tailoring shop in Manresa in 1933.
The business has grown into a multi-brand luxury retailer with locations in both Manresa and Barcelona, carrying designer labels including Armani and Dsquared2.
It is a shopping destination for Spanish celebrities and socialites. According to the store’s website, Cristina and her sister Judith currently run the business together, a detail that places her in an active operational role.
She has also held a stake in Miuccia, another respected Barcelona fashion retailer. Serra has been directly credited by multiple outlets with shaping Guardiola’s own touchline wardrobe, the tailored, deliberately put-together look that made him one of football’s most talked about dressers on the sidelines.
Pep Guardiola transitioned into coaching after his playing career, which included stops at FC Barcelona, Brescia, AS Roma, Al-Ahli and Dorados de Sinaloa, ended in 2006.
He took charge of Barcelona’s first team in 2008, winning 14 major trophies over four seasons including two Champions League titles, before managing Bayern Munich from 2013 to 2016 and then Manchester City from 2016 until the end of the 2025-26 season, becoming City’s most decorated manager in club history.
Pep Guardiola’s Ex-Wife
Cristina Serra and Guardiola’s relationship began in 1994, while he was an 18-year-old rising player at FC Barcelona working as a runway model for designer Antonio Miró at the Serra family store.
The two built a long-distance relationship around his football career, eventually settling into a shared home in Barcelona.
They had three children together, Maria, Marius and Valentina, before marrying on May 29, 2014, in a small, private Catalan ceremony attended only by immediate family, meaning the wedding came after roughly two decades together rather than at the start of the relationship.
Maria, the eldest, has since built her own public profile as a model and social media presence and has been linked in past reports to footballers including Everton’s Dele Alli.
The family relocated to Manchester in 2016 when Pep Guardiola took over at Manchester City, and in 2019 Serra returned to Barcelona with her children to focus on running Serra Claret directly, a professional decision that also marked the beginning of the family’s long-distance living arrangement, years before the marriage itself ended.
The family was photographed together celebrating Manchester City’s 2023 Champions League final win over Inter Milan in Istanbul, one of the more visible recent public appearances of the couple together.
Divorce
Guardiola and Serra separated at the end of 2024, following years of living apart between Manchester and Barcelona. The news became public in January 2025.
Multiple Spanish outlets reported the two made a deliberate effort to keep the process amicable, reportedly sharing a single lawyer in order to minimize conflict for their children.
Despite the separation, the family spent the 2024 holiday season together in Barcelona, a choice outlets including Hola described as an effort to preserve a sense of normalcy for Maria, Marius and Valentina.
The story resurfaced publicly in 2026 through previously unseen footage in the Amazon Prime documentary A Beautiful Obsession, showing Guardiola discussing the emotional weight of the split with his Manchester City players.
Guardiola stepped away from Manchester City at the end of the 2025-26 season and has since spent more time in Barcelona.
Spanish journalists close to the family have suggested the door to reconciliation is not fully closed, with some recent reporting floating the possibility that time away from the intensity of elite management could eventually bring the two back together.
Cristina Serra’s Net Worth
Cristina Serra’s net worth is estimated at $500,000. Given her operational role running Serra Claret alongside her sister, her income is independent and ongoing.
However, Pep Guardiola’s net worth is estimated at $125 million, built from his managerial salaries and endorsement deals.
