With Barcelona, he celebrated one title as a player and added two more as a coach, yet outside Barcelona he stays focused on his own path.
Manchester City is often seen as a top contender to lift the UEFA Champions League, and Pep Guardiola keeps chasing another trophy as a coach. He has tasted it with Barcelona, but the achievement remains elusive in his role away from that club.
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AS A PLAYER
The midfielder who wore the Blaugrana colors won the tournament in the 1991-1992 season, his first at the club. He started in the final against Sampdoria, a match decided by Koeman’s iconic goal at Wembley.
After that triumph, he did not clinch the Champions League again as a Barça player, not even with Roma. Yet he lifted major European silverware, including the European Super Cup twice (1992-93 and 1997-98) with Barcelona and the Recopa in 1996-97.
AS A COACH
As a coach, he secured the Champions League in his first season with Barcelona, triumphing in 2008-2009 against Manchester United in a Rome final. He repeated the victory in 2010-11, again facing Manchester United, this time at Wembley.
In the 2009-10 and 2011-12 campaigns, Barcelona reached the semi-finals but were eliminated by teams that would go on to win the trophy, Inter Milan and Chelsea respectively.
During his time with Bayern Munich, he saw exits in the semi-finals in 2014, 2015, and 2016, with clashes against Real Madrid, Barcelona, and Atlético de Madrid.
At Manchester City, he faced tough stretches, including a second-round exit to Monaco and a quarter-final loss to Liverpool. The 2018-19 campaign also fell short after a dramatic 4-4 comeback at home against Tottenham, and in 2019-20 the quarter-finals were halted by Lyon.
In the 2020-2021 season, he finally reached the final again after a decade, but Guardiola’s team fell 0-1 to Chelsea, marking the first defeat of his long coaching career in a Champions League final.
Source: Goal