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Guardiola to quit Barcelona 

Guardiola to quit Barcelona

3.07.2012

Josep Guardiola told Barcelona's leadership that will leave the club after the the season, announced Sky Sports.

The coach brought Barcelona to two trophies in the Champions League and total 13 for the 4 years that he led the team. The former "blaugranas" hold everyone under pressure over the past months and sparking constant speculation about his future.

According to media Guardiola finally decided to put an end to the stay at the club, and today will be organized joint press conference featuring the coach and the president of Barcelona Sandro Rosell.

Sky Sports expert Gilem Balag, currently writing the biography of Pep, said that in half a year the coach consider his resignation.
"Let me tell you a little story because I have been writing the biography of Guardiola. For six months he has been thinking of leaving.

"He had had it at the back of his mind and he uses it a bit as a mechanism because if he thinks he is going to stay another four years at Barcelona that would kill him because of the exhaustion of how he works; the amount of hours he puts in."


"This is not a decision just based on results or players that don't want him anymore or problems in the changing room. It just comes to the point where he tells the chairman he just cannot continue.

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