{"id":358720,"date":"2011-04-01T19:00:09","date_gmt":"2011-04-01T19:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/04\/01\/pep-guardiola-my-barcelona-reign-is-ending\/"},"modified":"2011-04-01T19:00:09","modified_gmt":"2011-04-01T19:00:09","slug":"pep-guardiola-my-barcelona-reign-is-ending","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/04\/01\/pep-guardiola-my-barcelona-reign-is-ending\/","title":{"rendered":"Pep Guardiola: My Barcelona Reign Is Ending"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div> Barcelona coach Pep Guardiola has dropped a heavy hint that he will leave the club when his contract expires in summer 2012.<\/p>\n<p>Guardiola, who took over the reins of his boyhood club in summer 2008, prefers short-term deals and signed a one-year contract extension in February to keep him at the Nou Camp until the end of next season.<\/p>\n<p>The 40-year-old told Italian television channel Rai Sport: &#8220;I think my time is ending here in Barcelona.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m fine here, but when you&#8217;re at a club like this you cannot stay for too long.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Next year will be the fourth consecutive season as coach of Barcelona.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Such a club must have a lot of courage to take a coach for so long, because the players get tired of coaches and vice-versa.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Asked if he might one day coach in Italy, the former Brescia and Roma midfielder added: &#8220;I&#8217;ll come if I still want to coach. It takes enthusiasm and more to make such a decision.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Since taking over at Barca, Guardiola has already won eight titles including an unprecedented treble of Primera Division, Champions League and Copa del Rey in his first campaign.<\/p>\n<p>The Catalan club are currently five points clear at the top of La Liga, through to the final of the Copa del Rey and in the quarter-finals of the Champions League. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/201ed65bget.media_83-150x90.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>More here:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/foreign.peacefmonline.com\/sports\/201104\/149877.php\" title=\"Pep Guardiola: My Barcelona Reign Is Ending\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Pep Guardiola: My Barcelona Reign Is Ending<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> Barcelona coach Pep Guardiola has dropped a heavy hint that he will leave the club when his contract expires in summer 2012. Guardiola, who took over the reins of his boyhood club in summer 2008, prefers short-term deals and signed a one-year contract extension in February to keep him at the Nou Camp until the end of next season<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-358720","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Pep Guardiola: My Barcelona Reign Is Ending - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/04\/01\/pep-guardiola-my-barcelona-reign-is-ending\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Pep Guardiola: My Barcelona Reign Is Ending - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"Barcelona coach Pep Guardiola has dropped a heavy hint that he will leave the club when his contract expires in summer 2012. 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