Chelsea Football Coach Lőw Becomes 8th Hungarian to Lift European Cup
After a great battle, Chelsea won their second Champions League title, beating Manchester City 1-0 in Porto on Saturday. The victory of the football club brings delight not only to its fans but also to many Hungarians as Chelsea assistant coach Zsolt Lőw also lifted the European Cup. He is the 8th Hungarian to win the most prestigious European club football trophy.
“It will take a few more days to really sink in and realize what we have done, what we have accomplished,” Lőw told M4 Sport after the Champions League final.
Montreux: a role in the birth of the Champions League Sunday 18 April 2021
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A UEFA Extraordinary Congress decision in Montreux in September 1991 paved the way for momentous changes that would lead to the start of a memorable adventure.
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The start of the 1990s was a time of significant change within UEFA and European football. Important commercial, sporting, political and technological developments propelled the European body into an exciting new era that would reshape the future of the game on this continent.
A new UEFA president took the helm in April 1990, when Sweden’s Lennart Johansson was elected at the Malta Congress in succession to the retiring Frenchman Jacques Georges.
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More than 2,000 Manchester United match day programmes spanning more than 60 years are to be auctioned off.
Mike Wolstencroft is selling the huge collection, which includes major events like George Best s debut and the last game before the Munich Air Disaster.
The collection also encompasses some of the biggest moments in world football, from the Busby Babes, Sir Alex Ferguson s first and last matches, and the era-defining Treble win.
I ve got nobody to leave them to. I moved house seven years ago and ever since they ve been stored in plastic containers in my spare room. I woke up one day and thought that s it they re going.
Cherishing the memory of Manchester United s Busby Babes Friday 5 February 2021
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Exactly 63 years have passed since the tragic plane crash in Munich in which eight Manchester United footballers and three club officials were among the 23 victims – and the Manchester Munich Memorial Foundation is firmly committed to preserving the memory and legacy of those who lost their lives.
Article top media content The Old Trafford mural: Manchester United s team lining up before the match in Belgrade on 5 February 1958. Bottom right: The statue of Sir Matt Busby. Getty Images
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On the afternoon of Thursday 6 February 1958, the Elizabethan charter airliner carrying Manchester United’s party home from their successful European Champion Clubs’ Cup quarter-final second leg against FK Crvena zvezda in Yugoslavia crashed on take-off in wintery conditions at Munich-Riem Airport in Germany after a refuelling