Pep Guardiola once asked his players to pick the team for a crucial match when he coached Barcelona B, one of his former proteges has revealed.
It was the Manchester City manager's first job in the dugout and the former midfielder had guided the club's second-string outfit to the brink of promotion to the third tier of Spanish football in 2008.
Gai Assulin, one of the members of that squad, told Goal: 'We were in the promotion play-offs, and I remember the last game...
'We drew the first leg away, so then, the second game at home, everyone was so nervous.