The 40-year-old has won 12 titles already at the team he graced as a player and will reach a special milestone in the Champions League clash at Viktoria Plzen in Prague

Up for the cups | Barca players celebrate the 2009 Copa del Rey win with their coach









PEP GUARDIOLA | 200 GAMES AS BARCA COACH



Competition Games

Wins Draws Defeats

Titles



La Liga



124 95 21 8 3



Copa del Rey



22 15 4 3 1

Champions

League



43 25 13 5 2

Spanish Supercopa



6 4 1 1 3



Uefa Super Cup



2 2 0 0 2

Club World Cup



2 2 0 0 1 Total

199 143

39

17

12



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By Ben Hayward | Spanish Football EditorIt took just 17 minutes. Rafa Marquez intercepted the ball just inside the centre circle, skipped past a challenge in midfield and threaded a defence-splitting pass through to the left channel for Samuel Eto'o, who took two touches with his right foot to advance into the area and slotted home a clinical angled drive with his left to put Barcelona one up at home to Wisla Krakow.It was August 13, 2008 and that was the first goal in Pep Guardiola's reign as coach of the Catalan club. Eto'o scored another after strikes from Xavi and Thierry Henry as Barca cruised to a 4-0 win in their Champions League qualifier. And little did their fans know it at the time, but it was the start of something special at Camp Nou.On Tuesday night, Barcelona face eastern European opposition once more, this time in the shape of Czech champions Viktoria Plzen, in what promises to be a night of landmarks in Prague. Score four in the Czech capital and Barca will have racked up 500 goals under Guardiola, while a strike for Lionel Messi will take the Argentine to 200 for the Catalan club, and goalkeeper Victor Valdes can break Manuel Reina's long-standing record of 824 minutes without conceding if he can protect his net for just 37 more minutes.All of those are possibilities, and with Barca playing the way they are, quite likely probabilities as well. But one milestone is a definite: Pep will take charge of Barca for the 200th time.Not even the most optimistic Barca fan would or could have predicted the success their former midfielder and cultured club captain would have as coach. The Catalans had just finished third in a disappointing final campaign under Frank Rijkaard, while there were doubts about Pep's preparation for the job following a sole season in charge of Barca B. There were dressing-room issues as well, with Ronaldinho, Deco and Eto'o said to be less-than-harmonious characters at Camp Nou.Guardiola's first decision was to sell all three, although Eto'o was allowed to stay after seemingly showing a different attitude once the other two had departed. It was perhaps symbolic then that the Cameroonian should score the first goal in the Guardiola era.Barca, though, then lost 1-0 in Poland and also went down in the coach's Liga debut at newlý-promoted Numancia. Doubts remained. But after a draw at home to Racing Santander in his next match, everything suddenly clicked as the Catalans crushed Sporting Gijon 6-1 at El Molinon. And they have never looked back since.Guardiola led Barca to an historic treble of Primera Division, Copa del Rey and Champions League titles in 2008-09, before making it six out of six as the Catalans claimed the Spanish Supercopa, the Uefa Super Cup and the Club World Cup.And despite his desire to experience different challenges, as he did as a player, and reports of a possible year-long sabbatical to spend more time with his young family, Pep is still in charge at Camp Nou. Just over three years on, he now has 12 titles from a possible 15, including three Liga crowns and two Champions League successes.In that time, Barca have won 143 games (71.85 per cent), drawn 39 (19.6%) and lost just 17 (8.55%) - many of which were effectively dead rubbers in any case. And in all of those matches, the Catalans have scored 496 and conceded 143. It's quite a record, but Pep won't be celebrating even if his side do triumph emphatically on Tuesday and advance in style to the last 16 of Europe's premier club competition. Because it's all about winning titles for Guardiola, who is already the most successful coach in Barcelona's history.It's not over yet, either, as Pep is expected to commit to a minimum of one more year at Camp Nou before embarking on his next adventure or taking some well-deserved time off. So there should be at least one more century of games to come after this one - and every single Barca fan will be happy about that.