Guardiola, who is taking a year out after four remarkable years at Barcelona, made the announcement at the Ballon D'Or awards.

"Next year I will go back into coaching. I do not know where but I will go back," Guardiola said. "It is not that I am missing anything at the moment but I am 41 years old, still young. I currently have the life that I was looking for and that I wanted and my [family] deserved. I don't have a team [yet] and I don't know where I will go but I will go back to coaching."