The UEFA Champions League trophy

The UEFA Champions League trophy

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  The current UEFA Champions League Trophy is 73.5 cm, weighing 7.5 kg.

  A rule introduced in the 1968/69 edition allowed the cup to be given to clubs that won the competition five times or three consecutively. The club then starts a new zero cycle. Real Madrid CF, AFC Ajax, FC Bayern München, AC Milan, Liverpool FC and FC Barcelona have the original trophy in their showcases.

 

The current trophy is the fifth version of the current design. It was commissioned by UEFA General Secretary Hans Bangerter after Real Madrid was allowed to keep the original in 1967.

  

  It was designed and realized in Bern (near the headquarters of the UEFA) by Hans Bangerter.



    The young Stadelmann stressed that: "My father Hans and I went to Bangerter's office and covered the floor with sketches. He made comments of the type: the Bulgarians will like the bottom part. Italians will prefer this and the Germans will want a little more of this. So we made a kind of puzzle with the design uniting many parts. "

 

  The trophy took 340 hours, with Stadelmann finishing the job in a limited time. "It had to be finished before March 28 because I was getting married and then I was going to do a 10-day boat trip to Los Angeles.I did the most delicate work and the engraver, Fred Bänninger, finished the piece.In time, I can say that I am proud ".

 

The nicknames of the UEFA Champions League teams

The nicknames of the UEFA Champions League teams

Arsenal - 'The Gunners'

The Arsenal was founded by armament industry workers in 1886 in Woolwich, an area of southeast London that was associated with the army. Hence the name of Arsenal, the cannon in the shield, and for the sake of consistency, the nickname.

Atlético - Los Colchoneros 

In the postwar period in Spain, the mattresses had a red and white cloth, making the material cheaper. Atletico abandoned their colors blue and white and soon were nicknamed as the mattresses.

Barcelona - Barça, Blaugranas, CulésBarça is more common, Barça more obvious, but Catalan is more interesting. It is more for the fans, and comes from the history of some spectators who could not find site in the old stadium of 'Les Corts'. Instead they sat on the far wall, exposing the pedestrians to their butt.Bayern - Die Roten (The Red ones)Six years before being an own club in 1900, Bayern was linked to the Münchner Sport-Club to be able to use its field and its facilities. There was only one condition: he had to change his black shirt for a red one. Bayern have since become known as 'die roten'.
Benfica - Eagles (Las Águilas)It comes from the eagle that enumbra the shield of the equipment from 1904, a symbol of authority, independence and notoriety. The club currently has two bald eagles, Vitória (victory) and Glória (glory). Before the home matches one of them flies around the stadium before landing on the club's shield.

 Dortmund - 'Die Schwarz-Gelben' (The black and yellow)The Dortmund used to wear red, white and blue, but changed its colors in 1913 after the lobbying of its president August Busse. Yellow and black were the colors of Britania, a team that had merged with Dortmund a few years earlier. For a time they were known as lemons.

Juventus - 'Vecchia Signora' (The Old Lady)There is some debate about the origin of this nickname, but many believe that comes from the Agnelli family, who bought the club in the 1920s. They wanted to evoke a sophisticated style, 'Juve style', so we opted for the kind of A noble old lady.

Leicester - 'The Foxes'Leicestershire is the cradle of fox hunting (currently illegal in Britain) and the nickname was made in 1920. Players jumped into the field under the motto 'fox never escapes'.Leverkusen - 'Die Werkself'Leverkusen began as a team of pharmaceutical giant Bayer, and was founded in 1904 after the signing of 170 workers.Manchester City - 'Citizens', 'The Sky Blues' (Citizens, Sky Blue)'Citizens' is an extension of 'City' (the members of the club are now known as 'cityzens'). The blue sky comes due to the color of its first equipment. 

Monaco - 'Les Rouges et Blancs' (Los rojiblancos)It is not an overexploited nickname. 'Los rojiblancos' comes from the colors of the club, which borrowed from the flag of the Principality, which in turn were fixed in the heraldic colors of the House of the Grimaldi.Naples - 'Partenopei'Of the old name of the city, Partenopeo. In Greek mythology, Parténope was one of the sirens that threw itself to the sea and died drowned when its song did not manage to attract Ulysses. The name of the city was put in honor to the legend tells that its body was dragged until the small island of Megaride.

Paris Saint-Germain - PSGPublishers eager to avoid repetition call them 'Les Rougues-et-Bleu' (the reds and blues) or 'Les Perisiens' (the Parisians), but French football always likes a good acronym.Oporto - 'Dragões' (dragons)The dragon has been a symbol of Porto since the 19th century, representing the spirit of struggle and invincibility. Porto adopted it in 1992 at the suggestion of the exjugador Augusto Baptista Ferreira.

Real Madrid - MerenguesA Spanish radio commentator began calling them that when he compared the white of the shirt with the merengue. A writer from the British newspaper 'The Times' uses a less common nickname, Vikingos, after comparing the great victory of Madrid 7-3 to the Eintracht Frankfurt in the final of the 1960 European Cup in Glasgow with the Viking invasion in Europe.

Sevilla - PalanganasAnother label of suspicious origin. One explanation is that the Ramón Sánchez Pizjuán stadium is reminiscent of a basin. Another says that basins at the beginning of the 20th century were white with a red line, thus recalling the colors of the club. 

 

 

Cristiano Ronaldo - 96 European goals

All Messi goals on Champions

Round of 16 matches 2nd leg

Tuesday 7 March 2017

Arsenal Stadium London

Arsenal

20:45

Bayern

                                            Stadio San Paolo Naples

                                            Napoli

                                            20:45

                                            Real Madrid

Wednesday 8 March 2017

                                          BVB Stadion Dortmund Dortmund

                                          Dortmund

                                          20:45

                                          Benfica

Camp Nou Barcelona

Barcelona

20:45

Paris

Tuesday 14 March 2017

Juventus Stadium Turin

Juventus

20:45

Porto

                                          Leicester City Stadium Leicester

                                          Leicester

                                          20:45

                                         Sevilla

Wednesday 15 March 2017

Estadio Vicente Calderón Madrid

Atlético

20:45

Leverkusen

                                        Stade Louis II Monaco

                                        Monaco

                                        20:45

                                        Man. City

Round of 16 matches 1st leg

Tuesday 14 February 2017

Estádio do Sport Lisboa e Benfica Lisbon

Benfica

20:45

Dortmund

                                             Parc des Princes Paris

                                             Paris

                                             20:45

                                             Barcelona

Wednesday 15 February 2017

Fußball Arena München Munich

Bayern

20:45

Arsenal

                                          Estadio Santiago Bernabéu Madrid

                                          Real Madrid

                                          20:45

                                          Napoli

Tuesday 21 February 2017

BayArena Leverkusen

Leverkusen

20:45

Atlético

                                   City of Manchester Stadium Manchester

                                   Man. City

                                   20:45

                                   Monaco

Wednesday 22 February 2017

Estádio do Dragão Porto

Porto

20:45

Juventus

                                Estadio Ramón Sánchez Pizjuán Seville

                                Sevilla

                                20:45

                                Leicester

Best Players

					Best Players
					PLAYER Games Played Minutes Played Goals Scored Assists Team Lionel Messi 5 450 10 2 Barcelona Edinsin Cavani 6 540 6 1 Paris Robert Lewandowski 6 530 5 0 Bayern Dries Mertens 6 391 4 3 Napoli Mesut Özil 6 519 4 3 Arsenal André Silva 6 528 4 2 Porto Arda Turan 4 146 4 1 Barcelona Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang 5 380 4 1 Dortmund Riyad Mahrez 5 417 4 1 Leicester Karim Benzema 6 419 4 1 Real Madrid