10 relatively unknown facts about Carles Puyol

4) He started his own football agency

Puyol worked as the assistant to Andoni Zubizarreta the sporting director for Barcelona but the latter was fired after which Puyol quit his role. He had an offer to work as the assistant coach at Inter Milan with Roberto Mancini but turned it down.

Instead, he started his own footballing agency with lifelong friend and former team-mate Ivan de la Pena. In an interview with El Pais he said, “Ivan is passionate about football. He loves discovering new talents. He can spend the whole day watching young players – he told me about Neymar and Coutinho when they were both 14 years old and Douglas Costa too.”