Wednesday,
May 23, 2007
Italy's AC Milan Wins European Champions
League Final, Grudge Game vs
The
ANNOTICO Report
The
European Cup (UEFA), or Champions League as it is now known, has risen from
humble beginnings, in 1955, to become the dominant competition in the
world club football calendar, having had 52 competitions.
Real
2005 will
be remembered for the most remarkable final in European Cup history.
Now
in 2007, In a remarkable coincidence those two teams are meeting just two years
later in a Rematch or Revenge time!!!!!
Remarkably,
Liverpool is third in
In
But,
this
The two finalists
The
BBC reported that 50,000 English Fans, the
greater portion from Liverpool will make the 2000 mile trip to
Even
more startling is that very few will have tickets, with only 17,000 allocated
to each club. Nevertheless, they are still coming.!!!!!
From
the Associated Press
Wednesday, May 23, 2007
Inzaghi made it 2-0 in the 82nd, taking a pass from
Kaka in the center, spurting ahead and rolling the ball from an angle past the
outstretched Reina.
Dirk Kuyt scored for
Two years ago, AC Milan took a 3-0 halftime lead in the final.
AC Milan nearly was kicked out of this year's competition by European soccer's
governing body but was allowed to remain and started in the third round of
qualifying.
A C Milan captain Paolo Maldini appeared in his
eighth European Cup final to match the record set by Real Madrid's Francisco Gento in the 1950s and '60s.
http://www.latimes.com/sports/la-sp-champions
24may24,1,5402747.story?coll=la-headlines-sports&ctrack=1&cset=true
By
Chuck Culpepper, Special to The Times
May 23, 2007
If Liverpool of England and AC Milan of
Fans and pundits still recollect with vivid detail that hallowed night in
While the memory banks of Europe have expunged a thousand matches since then,
people still can recite 54 and 56 and 60, the junctures at which
Liverpool captain Steven Gerrard received the cup,
held it up and shook it madly out of sheer unlikelihood, and Liverpool greeted
a fifth title (third-most in the event's 52-year history). Almost nobody
imagined they'd meet again so soon and only 349 miles across the
By the time the September-to-May 2007 European tournament had whittled to four
clubs,
Chatter had it that the English population would pretty much relocate to Gr eece for a festival of
staggering beeriness where the top two English clubs, Manchester United and
Chelsea, would spar, so it came as a huh that the biggest game of
the year would include, well, neither.
In dramatic second games in the two-game semifinal format, Liverpool chased
Chelsea on penalty kicks after drawing 1-1 across two games, AC Milan chased
Manchester United in a 3-0 rout that obliterated a 3-2 deficit and ought to
have played to classical music, and reporters chased Gerrard's
2006 autobiography in search of spice....
AC Milan Coach Ancelotti
has called Liverpool the worst of the three English semifinalists even while
praising a
http://www.latimes.com/sports/soccer/la-sp-champions23may23,1,5483440.story?coll=la-headlines-sports&ctrack=2&cset=true
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