12 Most Surprising Resignation of World Sports

Pep Guardiola surprised the football world when he decided to resign as coach of Barcelona at the end of the season 2011/2012. At the age of 41 years, Guardiola transform Barcelona into one of the world's best clubs. Three League titles and two Champions League crown in three years to prove his achievements.
Michael Jordan was a big star when hanging up his boots in 1993 (the first of three times the pension). After leading the Chicago Bulls three consecutive NBA champion and get a lot of individual awards, he decided to get out of the basket and move to baseball.
Ochoa shocked the golf world when he retired in 2010 at the age of just turned 28 years old. Mexican athletes have dominated the women's tour for three years and won many titles, which made it one of the biggest sports star in Mexico (the crazy football, golf was viewed merely filler elite leisure time).
Rocky Marciano is the only heavyweight champion to defend his unbeaten run to retirement. He retired in 1956, several months after defeating the veteran boxer Archie Moore. Perhaps most surprising is not only a young age he retired in 32 years, but Marciano also managed to resist the temptation not to return to the ring - as happens in many boxers.

But this season did not go smoothly. The first, the rivalry with Real Madrid and Jose Mourinho who topple Barca won La Liga of candidates and a shock defeat of Chelsea in the Champions League semi-final.

Guardiola admitted tired after four years of guiding his team achieved many accomplishments.

But the Catalan boss was not the first to retreat when it was at the peak of his career. There are still some players who make the world's sports world was surprised by the decision to retreat or retire early.

Following the resignation and retirement 12 most shocking sports world, as he had been quoted by Yahoo! Eurosport:

Michael Jordan (Basketball)

Jordan's decision to honor his father, who died a year earlier, but he returned to play in the 1995-1996 season and led his team to enjoy the victory. He then decided to retire again (this time people are not surprised), before returning for two more seasons with the Washington Wizard to finally hang up his shoes for a third time, and last retired in 2003.

Lorena Ochoa (Golf)

Ochoa said the reason for his retirement press conference: "I realized I wanted to start a new life." But she still keep her LPGA card so he can play in the Lorena Ochoa Invitational and revealed: "I want to leave open the opportunity if I want to go back in a year or two to play at the U.S. Open or the Kraft Nabisco."

Rocky Marciano (Boxing)

He was briefly considered returning to the ring in 1959 when Ingemar Johansson won the heavyweight title from Floyd Patterson, but then cancel the plan after a few months back to the gym. He finished his career with 49 wins from 49 games (43 wins by knockout). He died in a plane crash in 1969, the day before the birthday-46.

Johan Cruyff (soccer)

Johan Cruyff is a Dutch international star when it reaches the final of the 1974 World Cup and 1978 World Cup in Argentina, although it will never play in the tournament. Cruyff retired from international football in October 1977 by reason when it objected to the ruling military dictatorship in Argentina that time.

However, in 2008 Cryuff reveals the real reason is because he and his family had attempted abduction in Barcelona a year before the tournament begins.

"To play in the World Cup, you must be 200 percent healthy," he told a Spanish radio. "There was a time when there are other values in life." Even though it is one of the best players of all time, Cryuff only played 48 times with the Dutch, and scored 33 goals. Without it, the Dutch returned to the finals, but lost to host Argentina in extra time.

Bjorn Borg (Tennis)

In 1981 Bjorn Borg (43) is one of the world's top players. She won 11 Grand Slam titles, breaking the record most consecutive victories in the history of tennis. However, after losing to his rival John McEnroe at the U.S. Open 1981, he began to lose its light and could only win two games in 1982 before announcing his resignation in 1983.

McEnroe asked him to change the decision, but insisted tertap Borg. The news shocked everyone in the world of tennis. Arthur Ashe told Sports Illustrated: "I think he could win the Grand Slam (all four major titles in one year). But when he left, the challenge of history does not mean anything. He's like Elvis or Liz Taylor or the like." Borg may be returned, but will never be a big player on the ATP Tour again.

Florence Griffith-Joyner (Athletics)

'Flo-Jo' is a darling girl in the 1988 Seoul Olympics when he successfully won the gold medal in the branches of the 100m sprint, 200m and 4x100m. American sprint queen was a record 10.49 in the 100m Olympic warm-South Korea and 21.34 at the Seoul Olympics 200m final - world record which stands to this day. But he is haunted by the rumor continued use of drugs during his career, though never failed the test and retired after the Olympics.

Ten years later he died in his sleep because of severe epileptic seizures. Joyner asked her husband's body examined the use of steroids to clear his name - but then canceled because the body does not have enough urine in the bladder and the test can not be done accurately with other biological samples.

Bobby Fishcer (Chess)

Bobby Fischer became the U.S. chess champion in 1972 after beating Boris Spassky in the most famous chess match of all time, but then refused to play in some championship for nearly 20 years.

Fischer was also scheduled to meet with Anatoly Karpov in 1975 to defend his title but decided to step down.

Fischer finally met again with Spassky in Yugoslavia in 1992 despite the UN embargo prohibits an official sporting event held in the country. Fischer held a press conference at the United forbidden play - which meant he had to spend the rest of his life in exile.

He later issued a statement of anti-American, anti-Israel and anti-Semitic, and even wrote a personal letter of support Osama Bin Laden shortly after September 11, 2001. He died of kidney failure in 2008 while living in Iceland.

Pat Tillman (NFL)

American football star Pat Tillman was enjoying a successful career playing for the Arizona Cardinals in the NFL when he decided to reject the contract $ 3.6 million (about USD 33 billion) since joining the U.S. military.

Tillman follow some operations in Iraq and Afghanistan, but died tragically in the mountains of Afghanistan in 2004. The U.S. military claimed that Tillman was killed by enemy fire, but later revealed that he was hit by gunfire from troops of friends (friendly fire) when one of the Allied forces shoot at each other because of the confusion.

Shaun Tait (Cricket)

Shaun Tait announced his retirement from cricket in March 2012 to focus on the Twenty20. Tait was only 28 years old, but the problem on his back for years, plus a sense of longing for home during the tour, making Tait lost the spirit to play. A great loss for cricket.

George Foreman (Boxing)

Foreman has a reputation as one of the best heavyweight in the world in the mid-1970s, the Lagenda defeated Joe Frazier in 1973 and lost to Muhammad Ali in Zaire a year later. He stood down because of an illness shortly after against Jimmy Young in 1977 - a moment which he viewed as a near-death experience and encouraged him to step down and become devout Christians.

Foreman went on to become a priest.

What is also surprising is when he returns to the ring 10 years later at the age of 38 years. In his second career brehasil won the world title at the age of 45 years before finally making millions in the kitchen appliance market.

Guy Roux (Football-back during the match)

Roux had made history when he became manager for 44 years Auxere from 1961 to 2005, and was persuaded back to the world of football to take care of Lens in June 2007. But the season started badly, and he left the club as part of the game four.

Juan Manuel Fangio (F1 Racing)

Racer from Argentina's resign in 1958 after winning the world championship in four seasons. He won a total of five world titles with four different teams and his record is not solved until Michael Schumacher came 40 years later.

Fangio could gain more achievements if he wanted to, but decided to step down because they do not need to prove anything.

As noted in the obituary Fangio David Tremayne in the Independent: "He retired in Reims, in mid-1958, at the age of 47 years, holds a strong belief that the champion, actor and dictators must be stopped while flying over."