Barcelona has ever been a dream team for every player and backend official; in fact, everyone takes association with it as a big opportunity to prove personal skills in front of the world. Usually, Barca is known to offer long running tenures to its proven talents and Pep Guardiola has been one such notable who spent some four years with Spanish giant and won as many as fourteen titles while serving his dream team that include two Championship leagues along with three domestic titles. There has ever been a suspense about why he suddenly decided to leave the high profile job in 2012; many experts even blamed the breakup to some backend disturbances with club bosses over his extension issue, but no one could ever know the exact reason he left La Liga champions for. The 43-year-old Spanish left the club to Germen powerhouse Bayern Munich leaving Tito Vilanova to take the charge of first coach of the Spanish team. He recently revealed why he left the rewarding job of Camp Nou and called it an uncertainty that was pushing him to resign. Notably, he could never have a long term contract despite the fact that his performance was excellent both in and out of the field.
It was also a coincident that Barcelona lost Championship semis to Chelsea just after his announcement to leave the side which was heavily linked with the sadness among the players about his departure. What he says about those days is, “That was a moment of great sadness — as if suddenly someone had switched the floodlights off. We were better than our opponents but in the second leg conceded an unnecessary goal and the next thing we knew we were out of the competition. That was a very hard defeat for me. I had the feeling that I was no longer able to reach my team, and if you can no longer reach your players then it is time to move on.”
Though, he mentored one of the most successful periods for Blaugrana, he also calls it a worst one for him to motivate players coz it has then became a habit to win which was making it even more difficult for Guardiola to provoke players to deliver ever better, he added, “We were incredibly successful — 14 titles within four years meant the best era in the club’s history — but such things can also be a curse. I found it increasingly difficult to motivate my team.”