Joan Laporta gave a press conference this evening to confirm what had been so disgracefully leaked to the press on Monday. Pep Guardiola will take over from Frank Rijkaard as first team coach at the end of the season.

It’s not official yet but all the Spanish sports press are running the story that the decision was taken in a meeting of the Comision Delegada this afternoon for Pep Guardiola to take over from Frank Rijkaard as Barça’s coach at the end of the season. While I will be reasonably happy with the choice […]

FC Barcelona have taken the unusual step of issuing a press release to deny a story from Catalan television station TV3 that said that Joan Laporta had given his blessing to Pep Guardiola taking over from Frank Rijkaard at the end of the season. The story was then run by both El Sport and El […]

Reserve team coach Pep Guardiola has finally been declared innocent of doping. A seven months suspended sentence that he received in 2005 has been quashed. In 2001 Guardiola was found guilty of using Nandrolene while he was playing for Brescia in the Italian league.

Pep Guardiola is returning to Barça as next season’s coach of Barça B. Guardiola who played 379 games for Barça will be in charge of getting the B team back into the Second Division B after this season’s relegation.