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Real Madrid take on Borussia Dortmund in the Champions League final at Wembley on Saturday hoping to secure a 15th European Cup.
Indeed, a win at Wembley would mean Los Blancos will have collected more European Cups in the last quarter of a century alone than any other club has managed in the tournament’s 69-year history.While this was still a star-studded squad by most standards, Madrid had not yet entered the era of the Galacticos. Luis Figo’s world-record arrival from Barcelona came the following summer and Zinedine Zidane signed the year after.
In a most un-Madrid move, they came out of the 2017 summer transfer market in the black in terms of net spend, with youngsters Dani Ceballos and Theo Hernandez their only major signings. The sales of Alvaro Morata and Danilo, to Chelsea and Manchester City respectively, plus James Rodriguez’s loan to Bayern Munich, brought in more than €100 million.
Zidane had joined in a world-record £46million deal and the World Cup winner claimed his first Champions League title after twice being a runner-up with Juventus, scoring a spectacular left-footed volley against Bayer Leverkusen in the final at Hampden Park.Madrid won La Liga as well this season, but the battle for supremacy in the Spanish top flight wasn’t as competitive as it had been in previous years, with Barcelona reeling from Lionel Messi’s exit for Paris Saint-Germain.
But Real exacted revenge in the Champions League final, beating their cross-town rivals 4-1 after extra time. But Madrid’s form upon Zidane’s immediate appointment shows why the club had no regrets come season’s end. A 12-game winning streak to finish the campaign wasn’t quite enough to pip Barcelona to the league title, with Madrid’s final tally of 90 points one short of the Catalans’ mark. But they overcame Manchester City in the Champions League semi-finals before beating Atletico Madrid on penalties in the final.
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