article_snippet.sent: Bobby Robson’s assistant at Barcelona and Bayern Munich boss Pep Guardiola was in Jose Mourinho final years as a player at the Camp Nou at the time.
article_snippet.sent: Laurent Blanc was a huge part of the Barcelona XI that won the Spanish Super Cup under Bobby Robson in 1996 .
article_snippet.sent: both were both in the Barça team that started the 1996-97 season by winning the Spanish Super Cup against Atletico Madrid 6-4 on aggregate.
article_snippet.sent: With Robson in charge and Mourinho’s assisting Barcelona manager Luis Enrique the team that won the first silverware of the new season included not just the French World Cup winner and the 62-times Spain international and the aforementioned Lopetegui and Guardiola but Albert Ferrer, who started the season as Cordoba coach; Abelardo Fernandez, who is now coaching Sporting Gijon in Spainsecond tier; and Sergi Barjuan, who has just taken over at Almeria.
article_snippet.sent: the Barcelona XI that won the Spanish Super Cup under Bobby Robson in 1996 is breeding managers .
article_snippet.sent: Also in the team that won the first silverware of the new season were Hristo Stoichkov who has coached Celta Vigo and Bulgaria among others and Juan Antonio Pizzi, who managed Valencia last season and is now at Leon in Mexico.
article_snippet.sent: Even those players from the team that won the first silverware of the new season who never went on to manage have stayed in football with Giovanni now working as a scout for Olympiakos and Guillermo Amor a former director of Barcelona’s youth academy who is now director of football at Adelaide United FC.
article_snippet.sent: Among Even those players from that team who never went on to manage that season were Roberto Prosinecki and Emmanuel Amunike now coach with Azerbaijan and Nigeria’s Under-17s teams respectively.
highlights_snippet.sent: Four of Bobby Robson's 1996 squad are still in the Champions League .
  