Historical significance and its impact
Barcelona are a club with rich history and it is thanks to that they are what they are today. The likes of Rinus Michels and Johan Cruyff have made tremendous contributions not only to Barcelona but to football itself. It is their ideas which have passed on to the managers of the modern era namely Pep Guardiola, Ronald Koeman, Louis van Gaal, Laurent Blanc and many others.
Since the Catalan giants have always been a club which just doesn’t provide the players an opportunity to play but has taught their players how to play. They have created a handful of football masterminds who are managers today namely Pep Guardiola, Luis Enrique, Julen Lopetegui, Laurent Blanc, Phillip Cocu, Ronald Koeman and many others.
Even the most bitter rival of Barcelona, Jose Mourinho, had a short stint at the club as an assistant coach to Sir Bobby Robson in the late 1990’s. The club achieved a rare feat when four of the teams in the quarter-finals of the 2014-15 UEFA Champions League were managed by their former players (Pep Guardiola- Bayern Munich, Luis Enrique- Barcelona, Julen Lopetegui- Porto and Laurent Blanc- Paris Saint-Germain).
