Martí Perarnau is one of Spain's leading sports journalist, who has edited the sports pages of several national newspapers and created the long-running Estadio 2 programme for Televisión Español. Since 2013 he has been profiling Pep Guardiola, resulting in two highly acclaimed books Pep Confidential and Pep: The Evolution, both about Guardiola's time at Bayern Munich. Before his career in media and journalism, he participated in the Moscow 1980 Olympic Games in the high jump, in which he was the national champion.