Barcelona's 1992 European Cup winning squad: Where are they now?

#6 Juan Carlos Rodriguez

A left-back by trade, Juan Carlos Rodriguez played for Valladolid, Atletico Madrid and Barcelona and enjoyed considerable success with the latter. He played as the left wing-back in Barcelona’s first ever European Trophy triumph.

After finishing his career at Valladolid, he managed Castile and Leon, an autonomous football team in Spain which is not affiliated to UEFA or FIFA, in 2002, and finally returned to Valladolid as a director in 2008.

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#7 Pep Guardiola

Josep Guardiola (right) was one of the greatest players of his generation

Undoubtedly the most famous name on the list, Pep Guardiola played as a deep-lying playmaker or a defensive midfielder under Cruyff and is touted to be one of the best midfielders of his generation.

After a successful playing career at Barcelona, he also played in Italy, Qatar and Mexico. He later became the coach of the Barcelona B team in 2007, before he was promoted to take charge of the first team, where he etched his name into the history books in a number of ways.

Guardiola is credited with making the tiki-taka system popular during his time at Barcelona, and went on to build one of the greatest club sides of all time, led by Lionel Messi. Pep won 14 trophies in his first four years as manager.

He is also credited for bringing back Cruyff’s 3-4-3 system, which was seen at Barcelona and later at Bayern Munich as well. Currently in charge of the Manchester City project and already having built a reputation as one of the greatest managers of all time, Guardiola has truly made a huge contribution to football in such a short span of time as a manager.

(Video Courtesy – FC Barcelona YouTube Channel)

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#8 Jose Mari Bakero

Jose Mari Bakero during his stint as the manager of Real Sociedad.

Bakero was a Spanish international who started his career at Real Sociedad before becoming a part of the Dream Team. He scored the vital goal in the 90^th minute in the 2^nd leg of the 2^nd round of qualifying against 1. FC Kaiserslautern just as the Catalans were about to get knocked out on the away goals rule.

He was a key part of Cruyff’s team and won a total of 18 titles, scoring 139 goals in his career. He ventured into coaching on retirement, but did not meet much success during his various stints in Spain, Poland and South America. He was last hired as the interim director of Venezuelan club Deportivo La Guaira in 2015.