First a break, then a clear goal: Guardiola announces farewell to Man City


First a break, then a clear goal
Guardiola announces departure from Man City

Josep Guardiola has won everything there is to be won in club football. Many titles even several times. It seems understandable that the 50-year-old is looking for new challenges. Now the Catalan is talking about his future for the first time – and has bad news for Man City.

Bad news for Manchester City: Team manager Joep Guardiola wants to leave the English football champions when his contract ends in summer 2023 and then become national coach. This is what the Spanish star coach said, according to various Brazilian media, at an event organized by the Brazilian investment company XP Investimento. Guardiola was there as a conversation partner from Manchester.

“After seven years with this team, I think I’ll make a cut,” said the 50-year-old. “I will have to take a break and look back on what has been achieved.” He has already revealed his next career goal: “A national team, yes. The next step will be a national team if there is the possibility.”

He would like to train a team “at a European championship, a Copa America or a world championship,” said the former Bayern coach. Before that, like after his tenure at the Spanish top club FC Barcelona, ​​he wanted to take a “sabbatical” to pause and learn from other coaches.

Guardiola has been a Citizens trainer since 2016. In his tenure so far, the successful coach City has led to three championships and a cup win. Last November Guardiola extended his contract in Manchester by two years until the end of the 2022/23 season.

He has now achieved everything in club football – first as a player, then as a coach. With Barça in his early years as head coach, he won three championships and twice the Spanish Cup, the Champions League and the FIFA Club World Cup. In Munich he won three German championships with FC Bayern between 2013 and 2016, won the DFB Cup twice and won the Club World Cup again. At Man City, he became the first coach in England to win all national titles in a single season in 2019.

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