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#3 Sergio Busquets and Carles Busquets
When Sergio Busquets took the field in the Champions League final against Manchester United in 2009, he’d been playing top-level professional football for less than one season. Having battled all season long for the starting berth with Seydou Keita and a certain Yaya Toure, the 20-year-old had not rung many bells with his showings.
Pep Guardiola, however, retained enough faith in him to hand him a starting berth. As Busquets played a pivotal role in pinning United back and keeping Barcelona on top throughout the game, onlookers recognized his class and wholeheartedly applauded his performance, even though crowd favorite Yaya was playing centre-back in the absence of Eric Abidal.
Two years later, against the same opponents at Wembley, he produced another virtuoso performance in line with the rest of the team as Barcelona produced a footballing masterpiece to regain the Champions League trophy.
Today, Sergio is a Spanish international with over 70 caps for his country and has been a crucial component of the Spanish teams that won the World Cup and the Euros. His club career with Barcelona has produced every award in the catalogue and he himself gets great acclaim as one of the foremost players in the world who play the role he does.
