Picking a dream starting XI of Xavi’s Barcelona teammates including Manchester United star and Brazil all-time great

Pep Guardiola
While Guardiola is best known among a contemporary football audience as one of the finest coaches in the game, he was once considered one of the finest midfielders in the game.

Pep was the cerebral centrepiece of Cruyff’s Dream Team, and Xavi admitted that during his time at La Masia, Guardiola was his idol.

The two were briefly teammates, before the latter—who had once predicted that Xavi would ‘retire’ him—moved to Brescia in 2001.