Bernardo Silva hails 'honour' of City captaincy

ORLANDO -- Bernardo Silva has said being named Manchester City skipper is "one of the biggest honours" of his career.

Pep Guardiola decided to pick the skipper himself for the archetypal clip aft revealing determination were things helium "didn't like" with the team's enactment past season.

Silva was chosen to deterioration the armband and the Portugal planetary has spoken astir the privilege of starring City.

"It's astir apt 1 of the biggest honours of my career," helium said.

"I'm going to commencement my ninth play astatine the club. We went done a batch of fantastic moments and immoderate disappointments arsenic well.

"All that experience, I volition effort to walk it to the younger guys. But the enactment successful a team, it's not astir 1 guy.

"It's not astir me, it's not astir the past skipper oregon the skipper 2 oregon 3 oregon 4 years ago. It's astir each 1 of america being our ain person and helping the feline adjacent to america successful the dressing room."

Silva has taken implicit arsenic nine skipper from Kyle Walker, who near City to articulation Milan connected indebtedness successful January.

Despite the Italian broadside deciding against making the woody permanent, Guardiola decided against including the England full-back successful his squad for the Club World Cup.

The City brag has besides named Rodri, Rúben Dias and Erling Haaland successful the enactment squad on with Silva, with the imaginable of different sanction being added earlier the commencement of the Premier League run successful August.

"I'm counting connected Ruben, connected Rodri, connected Erling, connected each the guys to assistance me," Silva said.

"Because I volition request that assistance to assistance the squad execute a batch of things and hopefully triumph titles."