Guardiola joined Barcelona as a 13-year-old and won six La Liga titles and one European Cup as a player with the club.
He won 10 league championships, five cups and one European Cup in his 15 years at Benfica and was Portugal's top league scorer between 1964 and 1973.
He led Aberdeen to three Scottish titles, four Scottish cups, one League Cup and one European Cup Winners' Cup before moving to Manchester United in November 1986 following the dismissal of former manager Ron Atkinson.
Guardiola, who spoke to the FA from New York where he is currently living, joined Barcelona as a 13-year-old and won six La Liga titles and one European Cup as a player with the club.
The stadium where Ronald Koeman's scorching free kick against Sampdoria in 1992 handed Barcelona their one and only European Cup.
He has a three shot advantage over Scott Jamieson, Gonzalo Fernandez-Castano and Peter Hanson, who is one of three European Ryder Cup players in the field.
Add to the mix 10 England caps, two Uefa Cup runners-up medals and one each for the FA Cup and the European Cup Winners' Cup and Parlour can reflect on a glittering career at the top.
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"Anyone who was in Istanbul knows they saw one of the greatest matches in European Cup history, " said the German.
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But he resists the inevitable comparisons, protesting that Ferguson is a "different man" to the one who guided the Dons to European Cup Winners Cup success in 1983.
He has since won three league titles, three FA Cups, one Coca-Cola Cup and the European Cup Winners' Cup.
During his time with Arsenal, he won three titles, as well as three FA Cups, one Coca-Cola Cup and the European Cup Winners' Cup.
And while the likes of Zimbabwe's Bruce Grobbelaar (Liverpool), Ghana's Abedi Pele (Marseille) and compatriot Sammy Kuffuor (Bayern Munich) all contested two European Cup finals, they only ever managed to win one title apiece.
Only one team automatically qualifies for the World Cup from each of the nine European groups, with the eight best runners-up going into a playoff in November.
It was one of the biggest results in Celtic's history, behind winning the European Cup in 1967 and losing in the final three years later.
McDowell's comments came before Kaymer late collapse on Saturday but barring an astonishing final round by the Ryder Cup hero, the German appears to have the European number one spot in the bag.
During his career, he has taken charge of more than 100 international appointments, as well as two Scottish Cup finals, one League Cup final, and he was a fourth official at the 2004 European Championship in Portugal.
European number one Montgomerie will face strong competition from holder Miguel Angel Jimenez and Ryder Cup duo Paul Casey and Thomas Bjorn.
One of three wildcard picks by Montgomerie, Donald was the only member of the European Ryder Cup team competing in a field of 30 at East Lake.
One is the knowledge that having come third in the league and been knocked out of the European Cup by Porto there is some silverware for the trophy room.
The Old Trafford club will also be targeting a fourth European Cup triumph when they play Barcelona on 27 May and that would put them one behind Liverpool's haul of five wins in the competition.
Hook has proved to be one of the top centres in European rugby this season and helped inspire the Ospreys to a Heineken Cup pool victory over English Premiership leaders London Irish earlier this month.
Capello played Marcel Desailly in that role in the Milan side that won the 1994 European Cup, with a 4-0 demolition of Barcelona that is regarded as one of the greatest club performances in football history.
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