Cruyff, Barça and the Wembley Dream Team – Two Decades On

By Liam Bambridge
Updated: 20 May, 2012

Albert Ferrer

‘Chapi’ was one of only two members of the starting eleven the evening to have come through the ranks (no prizes for guessing the other one).

He made the step up from the B team in 1990 after acclimatising himself to La Liga with a brief loan spell at Tenerife, and remained a regular at right back for club and country right through until 1998. The arrival of van Gaal signalled the end of his Barca carreer, and he then headed for Stamford Bridge where he was somewhat less of a regular starter.

The quality of this finish (40 seconds in) belies the fact that it was one of only two goals he scored in nearly 300 senior appearances for the two clubs.
Nowadays after a brief and relatively unsuccessful spell as Vitesse Arnhem’s coach, ‘Chapi’ is most often seen on Sky Sports’ Spanish football coverage, alongside former colleague Michael Laudrup.

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