Karaiskaki Stadium, 1971. The European Cup final was won by Chelsea, then a midfielder in the English Premier League. Great footballer Francisco Hedo (right down holding the ball) last wore a Real Madrid shirt. Those who watched the game found that the queen's extreme hunter had not lost his speed, even when possessing the ball.
Puska's teammate at Real, Hedo, was present in the first final of the European Champions Cup in Paris in 1956. In the same squad with Alfredo di Stefano and the later coach of the Spanish national team, Miguel Muιόoz. It was June 13 like today. It was the beginning of the course of the Castilian group to reach the χ self-proclaimed "queen" of Europe. An informal title, a non-existent throne, that he will lose when one day another team reaches to win more league titles.
Let's imagine, six decades ago, the Park de Prince (of the princes) of the 38.239 tickets, in Europe's first grand finale, not as festive and luscious as it is today. Football bodies, not "athletic", no color at all, both in the French Stad de Rennes and in Real Madrid. Reese reached the final by excluding Scottish Hibernian in double matches with 3-0 and Real Milan with 5-4.
Football, in the first essentially post-war decade, is still about football players, not coaches and dopists. Not even sponsors and multinationals, television and gambling. It is the football of the gamblers, who were born in the slums and slums but also of the sly administrators.
At the 1956 finals. Rees leads 2-0 in the first quarter with a goal by LeBlonde and Templin. Di Stefano reduces to 14 and equals 30 to Hector Rial. France's then national coach Michel Undalgo makes 3-2 at 62 and after five minutes Alonso Irnath draws. Another goal in the 79, Rial, gives the mug to Real with 4-3. Referee and two English supervisors.
The team, Real Madrid probably had gambles, but also with the avant-garde backdrop, they serialized all four (!) Of the next championships.
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