http://china.goal.com/en/articolo.aspx?contenutoid=688782 FC Barcelona president Joan Laporta has confirmed that Josep 'Pep' Guardiola is to be the new first team coach at Camp Nou, with Frank Rijkaard set to leave the club... FC Barcelona released a brief, official statement within the last hour to the effect that Frank Rijkaard would part company with the club at the end of the season, with current reserve team coach Pep Guardiola set to take his place. The club's official website reported: "[President] Joan Laporta has announced that Frank Rijkaard will end his career at the club at the end of this current 2007/08 season. Josep Buardiola, current coach of Barça B, has been picked as his replacement on the bench of FC Barcelona. "After a meeting of the Board of Directors, the president Joan Laporta appeared before the media to announce the takeover on the bench of the first team of FC Barcelona at the end of the season. On June 30, Frank Rijkaard will no longer be coach of FC Barcelona and Josep Guardiola will be his replacement." As such, Rijkaard has just two more games in charge before he leaves Camp Nou for the last time. Open Secret It's been something of an open secret that the Dutchman's days were numbered as he steered Barça to a second successive season without any trophies, but Wednesday night's shocking 4-1 loss to arch-rivals Real Madrid seems to have sealed the deal. Rijkaard arrived in Catalunya in 2003, taking the blaugrana to second place in his debut season and to two successive Liga titles after that. What's more, in 2006 he completed the historic League and European Cup double with a famous win over Arsenal. However, things began to sour last season as the blaugrana slipped away from a dominant position at the top of the table to help Real Madrid seize the title, and this year there was not even a meaningful battle as the Bernabéu side twice beat the blaugrana. Currently, Barça sit a massive 17 points behind their eternal enemies. Additionally, they can no longer finish second, meaning that they must pre-qualify for next season's Champions League. Thus despite bright beginnings for the former Dutch international, his position at Camp Nou had clearly become untenable. This has been known essentially since Barcelona dropped out of the title race, but was only really solidified over the last week, during which time an aide of Frank's accidentally spilled the beans on a personal blog. The club kept silent about this revelation, but today, after the Board meeting, decided to confirm what was already known. Guardiola's The Man Just as Rijkaard's departure was expected, so too was 'Pep' Guardiola's coronation as new boss. The heir apparent has around a year of coaching experience to his name, having taken over at FC Barcelona 'B' in time for the 2007-08 season. The former Spanish international midfielder has steered the second string to first place in the Tercera División Grupo 5 - part of the fourth tier of Spanish football - where they look likely to make an immediate return to the Segunda B. In recent weeks Pep has been charged with the task of submitting a report on his coaching style to the board (more details here) and has also been rumoured to have provided the directors with a list of players that he wishes to keep, as well as those whom he'd sooner discard (more details here.) Apparently he has done enough to convince the top brass that he has what it takes, and in doing so has beaten off competition from the likes of Michael Laudrup, the Getafe manager. Whether or not Pep will be involved with first team duties between now and the end of the campaign remains to be seen, as is whether or not Rijkaard opts to leave his post prior to the official handover date of June 30, which coincides with the time of most contractual renewals and conclusions. Ewan Macdonald, Goal.com ======================================= 看來有人等不到聯賽結束了 題外話，把第一段貼去yahoo翻譯，會變成好像Rijkaard要留下來當助手的意思 XDDDDD -- ▂▃▄▅◣ ☆19 Lionel Messi: FW 169/67 1987.06.24 ╴ ██▏╴╴╴╴ ◢◢◤◤◣◥ ◢◣◣ █▂▄ ▌▉◤ ▌▉◤ ▌▉▋╳╳ ██▏╳╳╳ ║ ◢▄█ ● 。 █▼▇ █▋◤ ◥◣ ◥◣ █ ﹦● ▇▇▇ ╳╳╳ ║ ◥◥█ ◤ ○╭ █─█─█▆▄-◥▏▌-◥▏▌─ ▏▋ ╳▇ ▇▇ ╳╳╳ ║ ∕︽● │3/10初戴帽4/18梅西之夜6/10上帝之手│● █ ▆█ ╳╳╳ ║ ￠oracles ╰─────────────────╯ █ ▆█ ╳╳╳ ║ --

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