#4 Ion Andoni Goikoetxea
Goikoetxea was another Basque player who started at Osasuna and played for Barcelona from 1990 to 1994. He then joined Athletic Bilbao and played for three years, before having a stint in Japan and eventually retiring at Osasuna.
Goikoetxea was a versatile player on the right wing and represented Spain in the 1994 World Cup. He started his coaching career as an assistant with Osasuna B in 2005, then the first team and finally worked as an assistant to Jose Angel Ziganda at Xerez CD for the 2009-10 season.
#4 Txiki Begiristain
A name familiar to Barcelona and Manchester City fans due to his role as director of football in the past decade, Begiristain was a left-sided attacker who played initially for the Basque club Real Sociedad, before becoming a part of the Dream Team. He ended his time in Spain at Deportivo La Coruna and called time on his career in Japan in 1999.
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He worked for Spanish broadcasting network, Televisio de Catalunya, before joining Barcelona as the director of football in 2003. He served in the post till 2010 and oversaw Pep Guardiola’s dominant phase. The duo came together again at Manchester City when Guardiola joined the Citizens last summer, where Begiristain is working as the director of football from 2012.
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