Watch Pep Guardiola Produce One of the Greatest Assists for Barcelona in Champions League History

• Pep Guardiola‘s assist in 1994 to Hristo Stoichkov is one of the best assists ever witnessed in the UEFA Champions League
• Guardiola is not just renowned for his technical abilities as a coach but he was also one of Barcelona’s standout players
• Guardiola was part of the Barcelona side that won the club's first European Cup in 1991-92, as well as six league titles

Think Pep Guardiola is just good at football management? Think again.

The Manchester City manager obviously started out as a player with Barcelona and was one of the successful football stars at Camp Nou in the early 1990s.

In 1994, Guardiola provided one of the best assists ever witnessed in the history of the UEFA Champions League as Barcelona tackled Monaco.

Receiving the ball inside his own half, Guardiola glanced up and drop-kicked a pass over the despairing heads of the Monaco backline onto the path of Hristo Stoichkov, Planet Football reports.

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Dissected like a dead frog in a science lab, the opposition center-backs were powerless to stop Stoichkov from latching onto the ball and firing past Jean-Luc Ettori for the game’s only goal.

Guardiola’s success at Barcelona as a player

Meanwhile, Manchester City boss Pep Guardiola was part of the team that won Barcelona’s first European Cup during the 1991-92 season, Sporting News reports.

The Spaniard who spent 17 years as a Barcelona player and served as club captain at some point, also won six La Liga titles with the Catalan giants between the 1990-91 and 1993-94 seasons.

Guardiola would go on to coach the senior side after retirement, winning the UEFA Champions League twice as a manager with his boyhood club.

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Earlier, Sports Brief reported Pep Guardiola has now opened up on the love Arteta has for the club he made history with by winning the FA Cup as a captain and as a head coach.

The former Barcelona player and manager did not hide his love for a club that brought him to the spotlight, claiming he would have done the same Arteta did if he was an assistant.

Guardiola was promoted to senior team manager from Barcelona B head coach in 2008 and won 14 trophies in four years with the Blaugrana with Lionel Messi as his star player.