The champion’s league

Hi I am going to tell you about a very important football event, the….
UEFA champion’s league!!!!

The first Europe competition of clubs was created one month later of the first congress of the UEFA that was on Vienna in March 2 of 1955, but the competition called Europe cup wasn’t initiative of the UEFA.

French fundators: In that time many of the fundators of the UEFA were more interested in create a Europe competition with the official country team .the French newspaper L’Equipe and its editor Gabriel hanot were the ones that publish a Europe clubs tournament and his partner Jacques ferran ,and they desing a competiton that was going to be played all Wednesdays .

The beginnings:

The tournament initiated by the L´Equipe doesn’t say that the teams that were going to participate have to be champions on their country, so they invite clubs with a lot of fans. Some representatives of 16 clubs were invited to a reunion the 2nd and 3rd of April of 1955 and the rules of the L´Equipe were accepted. The first match was played in Lisbon between sporting of Portugal and the FK Partizan that end with a tie 3-3. the Yugoslavian team won the match of return 5-2.

Records:

The Real Madrid is the team with more victories in the history of the UEFA champion’s league with 3 victories from the restructured of the competition. this team to is the one that more cups have with 9,then goes AC Milan with 6,and Liverpool with 5. the real Madrid has to the record of more times being in the final with 12.

by santiago jaramillo mejia.

bye.