Manager Tito Vilanova has thanked Barcelona players and fans after announcing his resignation.
Tito Vilanova thanked Barcelona’s players, fans and officials for ‘five wonderful years’ on Saturday, a day after the club announced he was stepping down to fight his recurring throat cancer.
Vilanova wrote in an open letter on Barcelona’s website: “The moment has arrived to face a change in my professional life and dedicate my energies and efforts to following a treatment for an illness doctors diagnosed a year and a half ago.”
Vilanova had previously twice been obliged to take a medical leave after consecutive surgeries to remove tumours from a saliva gland.
Barcelona will name his successor as manager next week with the Spanish league set to start on August 17.
Vilanova said he was resigning because his doctors told him the new treatment he will pursue was incompatible with the “responsibilities of the first team coach.”
He said he would, however, continue “working for this club that I love so much in other areas of sports operations” without specifying his role.
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