Guardiola refuses to blame Spain for Pique injury [Xinhuanet]

Posted on October 17th, 2011 by admin

It would have seemed a bit harsh if Pep had blamed the injury on Pique playing for the Spanish national selection, surely?

FC Barcelona coach Pep Guaridola has refused to blame the Spain national squad for the muscle injury that will keep central defender Gerard Pique sidelined for the next two to three weeks.

Barcelona confirmed on Saturday that Pique, who lasted just eight minutes of their comfortable 3-0 win at home to Racing Santander, will be sidelined with a hamstring injury.

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Guardiola signs for another year [FCBarcelona.cat]

Posted on July 15th, 2010 by admin

Pep Guardiola has finally signed an extension to his contract that will see him remaining as Barça coach until at least 2011. The FCB website notes:

“Josep Guardiola officially secured his future at FC Barcelona on Wednesday when he signed for another season as coach of the first team along with assistant Tito Vilanova.”

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Rosell voted FCB president

Posted on June 14th, 2010 by admin

Sandro Rosell is the new club president after picking up 61% of the votes in yesterday’s election.

He was the club vice-president between 2003 and 2005, when he spectacularly fell out with friend and club president Joan Laporta and resigned. Since then he has been taking pot shots at Laporta over the direction of the club and it was no surprise to anyone to learn he was a candidate.

Possibly his largest contribution under Laporta was to bring Ronaldinho to the club; but he was also responsible for the sponsorship of Nike, for whom he worked as the head of the South American operation.

His first job will be to sign Pep Guardiola, and there are also rumours that he has been having talks behind the scenes with Cesc Fabregas.

Tags: Cesc Fabregas, Joan Laporta, Nike, Pep Guardiola, Ronaldinho, Sandro Rosell