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🗓️ 30 May 2020
⏱️ 52 minutes
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The 2020 Champions League final was due to be held at the Atatürk Olympic Stadium on Saturday 30 May, exactly 15 years after the most extraordinary night in the competition's history, when Liverpool completed “The Miracle of Istanbul”. AC Milan had a star-studded line up and were overwhelming favourites, especially after they raced into a 3-0 lead. However Liverpool launched the most amazing second-half comeback that culminated in winning the trophy in a penalty shootout. To mark that anniversary, we take you back to that iconic night with those who were there - including penalty-saving hero, Jerzy Dudek.
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0:00.0 | I'm Jamie Smith and I normally produce programs rather than introduce them, but this is a little bit different. |
0:06.4 | The next 50 minutes or so is dedicated to just one football match and it was 15 years ago. |
0:12.4 | And when I say football I mean soccer or whatever you like to call it. |
0:17.1 | Football a game put simply in which players from two teams kick around a ball and try to |
0:21.6 | score goals. |
0:23.0 | But it's also a game which creates such loyalties and passions |
0:26.0 | that what happens on that pitch can feel a lifetime of memories. |
0:30.0 | So how does one become the other? |
0:32.0 | Well, this might help answer the question. This year the 2020 Champions League final was due to be held at the Ataturk Olympic Stadium in Istanbul. |
0:52.0 | Exactly 15 years after what many the Ataturk Olympic Stadium in Istanbul. |
0:52.9 | Exactly 15 years after what many people see as simply the most extraordinary nights |
0:58.0 | in the competition's history, |
0:59.8 | as Liverpool Football Club completed what became known as the miracle of Istanbul. The greatest striker in Europe at the moment Andre Shechenko the European |
1:16.9 | footballer of the year the man whose decisive penalty won the European Cup |
1:21.8 | at Old Trafford against Juventus two years ago. |
1:24.4 | He wants the ball immediately. |
1:25.9 | His body language looks all right. |
1:27.1 | I didn't knew that was the final penalty. |
1:29.8 | Every time I went with the ball to the player to look at his eyes. Given nicely the ball, sometimes I was asking the player |
1:38.3 | are you gonna shoot the same site as always. He wants to get on with it, but of course if he misses here, |
1:43.4 | Liverpool against all the odds have won the champions. |
1:47.7 | And then I didn't want to, you know, wait for the answer. I just turn back to the goal. |
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