Something big was being built at the beginning of the 90s. Something never seen before at Barça, a depressed club in Europe incapable of shaking off the trauma of that lost final in Seville-1986 with a terrible and cruel penalty shootout missed against Steaua Bucharest. Two years later (1988) came Johan Cruyff and traced the route to paradise.
It was not easy at all. It took her four years (she was on the verge of dismissal) for that May 20, 1992, to bury decades of frustrations and fears with an imposing right hand from Ronald Koeman (d. 111) to transform the old, and already demolished, Wembley into the ‘Holy Grail’ of Barcelona. This May 20 marks the 30th anniversary of that shot that changed the history of the club forever.
60 years. “Ronald and Andoni gave us the Cup”, he always confesses Guardiola when he evokes that final. Koeman’s shot was as valuable as the saves from Zubizarretaa sober, effective and traditional goalkeeper, who used to wear green like at Wembley that became a wall, especially for Vialli.
Now he lives in Bilbao, although he has a house in Barcelona. He writes a weekly column in the newspaper ‘El País’ after he left the sports management of Olympique de Marseille, where he arrived after successfully piloting the last reconstruction of the Barça squad (year 2014).
51 years. “I don’t know what Johan said in the talk. Why? Because I had disconnected from everything when he told me that he had to follow Mancini all over the field.” And he did it by exercising that role of lateral-marker, entrusted by Cruyff.
After retiring, he worked as a coach and is now a commentator on TVE, in addition to leading the ‘Barça-Legends’ team from the bench
59 years old. “I have been in paradise & rdquor ;, he confessed ronald koemanthe hero of Wembley, to this newspaper hours after scoring the goal that gave Barça the first European Cup.
After being fired for laporta last October from his position as Barça coach, he has stayed to live in Barcelona. He has already been appointed as the new coach of the Netherlands, a position that he will begin to carry out as of January 1, 2023 when the Qatar-2022 World Cup ends and the season of Louis vanGaal.
54 years. After winning the European Cup with Barça he went to Madrid where he spent four seasons. The Andalusian defender, whom Cruyff He signed for Sevilla, ended his sports career wearing the Espanyol shirt.
It has disappeared Nando totally from the football scene because he preferred to get away from the spotlight, dedicated to real estate business. He did not even attend the reunion in Barcelona promoted by ‘Els Amics de Johan’ to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the conquest of Wembley.
58 years old. Eusebius It was the one that caused the foul on the edge of the Sampdoria area, which Koeman later scored.
He worked as a coach (Girona was his last team), then he suffered a serious accident (December 2020) from which he has been recovering after a long rehabilitation and is now dedicated to the Eusebio Sacristán Foundation, which he created in 2003, to favor the sports practice among people at risk of social exclusion. For this reason, he alternates his residence between Barcelona and Valladolid, where he was born.
51 years. He works as a coach at Manchester City after building the perfect Barça (2008-2012) and discovering the Bundelisga with Bayern Munich. He took, yes, a sabbatical year after his departure from the Camp Nou.
59 years old. He works at Barça, linked to the youth football scouting area, under the supervision of Jose Ramon Alexankothe captain of the ‘Dream Team’.
57 years old. After quitting football Michael Laudrup He worked as a coach and now works as a commentator for Danish TV, installed at his home in Copenhagen, although he also visits Mallorca frequently.
57 years old. Juan Carlos works in Valladolid with his friend Eusebius in the foundation that he created in 2003 to generate resources that allow them to invest in “inclusion projects through sports and healthy leisure”.
59 years old. she has not moved Julius Salinas of Catalonia where he collaborates in various gatherings and media. She writes a weekly column in the newspaper ‘MundoDeportivo’
56 years. Stoichkov He works on the Univisión television network commenting on the Champions League matches. He has lived in Miami for eight years. He has no plans to return to the bench, despite the fact that he has received many offers. He has rejected them all, unless he receives a call from Barça
56 years. Jon Andoni Goikoetxea He worked as Ziganda’s assistant at Osasuna, the club from which Cruyff signed him, although he later loaned him out to Real Sociedad for two years. He is still linked to football as a scout for Barça in the north of Spain. He lives in Pamplona.
65 years old. The captain who lifted the European Cup at Wembley. He was Jose Ramon Alexanko the defender who took Cruyff in extra time to maintain the victory after the goal of koeman.
He has returned to Barça, coinciding with the return of laporta for president. He is the head of the Barça youth academy, a position he already held in the first stage (2003-2010).
54 years. it’s not there anymore William Love linked to Barça, where he has held the position of head of institutional relations for the club.
55 years. He lives in Palma de Mallorca. I arrive Michelangelo Nadal to Barça in the Champions League season (1991-92) and chained up to eight consecutive years before returning to Mallorca, the club from which he came to the Camp Nou.
Away from football, he maintains permanent contact with his former teammates from the ‘Dream Team’.
54 years. Carles Busquets was a substitute for Zubizarreta and is the father of Sergio Busquets, the first captain of the current Barça. He has been ‘Busi’ as goalkeeping coach for the first team and for Barça B.
57 years old. Txiki Begiristain He served as technical secretary in Laporta’s first stage (2003-10), a position he holds at Manchester City, where he managed to reunite with Pep Guardiola.
55 years. Works Mariano Angoy in projects linked to the Cruyff Foundation after concluding his sports career. He live’s in Barcelona.
52 years. Richard Witschge He had to be a starter in the Wembley-92 final. But a last minute injury left him out of Cruyff’s plans. He lives in the Netherlands where he worked as a coach in the Ajax youth academy. And now he is in the coaching staff of the first team as a specialist.
54 years. Christopher Paralo. He worked as a coach in several teams, including the youth team of Damm or Fabril (a subsidiary of Deportivo de A Coruña). And now he is directing the Racing Club de Ferrol, of the First RFEF, immersed in the fight for promotion because it is placed in third place after Racing and Deportivo.
58 years old. Ricardo Serna lives in Seville. From there Cruyff signed him (1988) in his first year. He assumes tasks of representing Barça in events in Andalusia.