manager and with a former manager , unleashed a newspaper war between two Dutch dailies , and , though unfit , demanded the lead role in the team . In 1994 he walked out of Holland ’ s squad before the World Cup even started . Squabbles also eventually forced him out of Milan .
He finished his playing career in England , one of the first foreigners to cross the Channel in the mid-1990s . His presence and sophistication lit up Chelsea . In 1997 he coached the club to victory in the FA Cup , the first foreign manager to win a major English prize . After retirement he enjoyed playing with friends in the fifth-string team of an Amsterdam amateur club .
Number 17 : Xavi
Xavi Hernández Creus spent years almost unnoticed sliding perfect passes in the midfield of Barcelona , the club he had joined aged eleven . Only late in his career did pundits realize that it was no coincidence that this little man drives on both the best teams of our era , Barça and Spain .