Where are they now? The 14 Barca kids given debuts by Pep Guardiola
Barcelona are renowned for giving academy graduates opportunities in the first team, but what became of those to break through during Pep Guardiola’s four years in charge?
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Revisiting Barcelona’s last Xl before Lionel Messi’s first-team debut, 2004
Rivaldo: A fairytale career
Jose Mourinho’s iconic 2005 story of hiding from UEFA in laundry basket
Jose Mourinho is good at a lot of things but strictly adhering to authority is not one of them.
Where are they now? The Barcelona B XI from Messi’s last game in 2005
Lionel Messi made his first-team debut for Barcelona in a 1-0 win over Espanyol in October 2004. The rest, as they say, is history.
Bompastor, pionera en el césped y en el banquillo del Lyon
Miguel Muñoz, Giovanni Trapattoni, Johan Cruyff, Carlo Ancelotti, Frank Rijkaard, Zinedine Zidane y Pep Guardiola conforman la escueta lista de ganadores de la Champions League como futbolistas y entrenadores. De ellos, solo cuatro lo lograron con el mismo club: Muñoz y Zidane, con el Real Madrid; Ancelotti, con el Milan; y Guardiola, con el Barça. Y en ese prestigioso club puede entrar hoy Sonia Bompastor (Francia, 1980), la técnica del Lyon.
The evolution of Rangers: 'You have to believe' as Giovanni van Bronckhorst reveals his coaching idols
Giovanni van Bronckhorst will tell his team to match Rangers’ iconic Bareclona Bears by bringing the club’s first European title since 1972 back from Seville as he himself bids to match figures from his own illustrious past.
Barcelona’s last 16 January signings – and what they’re doing now
Until this year, when they brought in four players in January, Barcelona had generally avoided doing much business in the winter transfer window. It’s not difficult to see why when you look at the record of their mid-season recruits.
Ranking Pep Guardiola’s 13 weirdest signings: Zlatan, Bravo, Hleb…
Pep Guardiola is widely acknowledged as being one of the best football managers of all time for the countless trophies he’s won with Barcelona, Bayern Munich and Manchester City – but that doesn’t mean he’s not made a few truly bizarre signings during his coaching career.