PARIS, May 29 — Real Madrid may be the most successful club in Champions League history but they defied the odds all along their way to victory in this season’s final against...
PARIS, May 29 — Real Madrid may be the most successful club in Champions League history but they defied the odds all along their way to victory in this season’s final against Liverpool. The question now is how long they can continue to do so with their current team.
For now, Real can revel in winning their fifth Champions League in nine seasons, and a record-extending 14th European Cup overall, after a solitary Vinicius Junior goal decided the contest at the Stade de France. Real have now won on each of their last eight appearances in the final of Europe’s elite club competition since they lost 1-0 to Liverpool in Paris in 1981.
A team written off as too old and no longer good enough at the very highest level has won La Liga and beaten the top three in this season’s Premier League, the French champions and last season’s Italian champions en route to European glory.‘Mbappe is forgotten’Marcelo is the same age as the Frenchman and out of contract along with Bale and Isco, while 32-year-old Toni Kroos is heading into the last year of his deal.
Yesterday’s match-winner, the 21-year-old Brazilian Vinicius Junior, is such a formidable talent that they may indeed be just fine without Mbappe, while Eder Militao and Fede Valverde are not yet at their peak and Eduardo Camavinga is still a teenager.They had the second-highest revenues in world football last season, just behind Manchester City, according to Deloitte’s Football Money League.
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