Dani Gil

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Paris Correspondent at Mundo Deportivo

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‘Henrik Larsson found me with a pass and I hit the ball with my whole soul. When I saw it go in, I wanted to get up to celebrate - my body wouldn’t let me’ Juliano Belletti on his 2006 Champions League winner | FourFourTwo

5 days ago | fourfourtwo.com | Joe Mewis |Dani Gil

Cast your minds back to May 17, 2006 at the Stade de France in Paris. Arsene Wenger’s Arsenal are just 15 minutes away from their first-ever Champions League title, leading 1-0 against Barcelona following a backs-to-the-wall performance which saw them reduced to ten men after just 18 minutes when goalkeeper Jens Lehmann was sent off.
‘Frank Lampard said in front of everyone that I was the best, even though he was given man of the match. I’d played out of my usual position and it was perfect’ Juliano Belletti on his Chelsea highpoint | FourFourTwo

1 week ago | fourfourtwo.com | Joe Mewis |Dani Gil

During his three-year Chelsea stay, Juliano Belletti would win two FA Cups and one Premier League title, despite then-owner Roman Abramovich’s revolving door policy in the Stamford Bridge dugout. Belletti was signed from Barcelona in 2007 in a £4million move by Jose Mourinho, but the Portuguese was sacked a month into the new campaign.
‘Working for Mourinho was a great experience - he was a master at motivating and knew how to strike the right chord with each player. We were his soldiers’ Andriy Shevchenko on his loyalty to his former Chelsea boss | FourFourTwo

2 weeks ago | fourfourtwo.com | Joe Mewis |Dani Gil

Andriy Shevchenko only played under manager Jose Mourinho at Chelsea for just over a year - but it is clear that the Portuguese had a significant impact on the forward. The Ukrainian joined the Stamford Bridge side from AC Milan in the summer of 2006 for a fee of £30.8million and was unable to match the standards he set for himself at the San Siro, netting just four Premier League goals in his first season as the two-time defending champions dropped to a second-placed league finish.
‘Ian Rush gave me a pair of Nike boots and I treasured them for years. I tried playing with them once, until my big toes poked through the toe area!’ How a Liverpool legend helped inspire Andriy Shevchenko | FourFourTwo

3 weeks ago | fourfourtwo.com | Joe Mewis |Dani Gil

Back in the 1980s, before the era of globalisation, the world was a lot smaller. The prospect of being able to watch live coverage of any but the biggest football matches being played thousands of miles away was the stuff of fantasy.
‘We dominated the game and I had a double chance that Dudek inexplicably saved. Football is beautiful for that reason. Never take anything for granted’ - Andriy Shevchenko relives 2005 Champions League defeat to Liverpool

4 weeks ago | fourfourtwo.com | Steven Chicken |Dani Gil

Missing a vital penalty in a big shootout is every footballer's worst nightmare, and the stakes don't get much higher than doing it in the Champions League final. But Andriy Shevchenko believes that having the decisive penalty saved in AC Milan's 2005 Champions League final defeat to Liverpool was a valuable life lesson. The prolific centre-forward enjoyed his peak at San Siro in the early 2000s, helping the club to win the Champions League in 2003 and Serie A the following year.
'When I joined Barcelona, the president told me, ‘There’s this boy who will be superb’. He started training with us and I soon knew that he would replace me' Ludovic Giuly on knowing his Barca days were numbered | FourFourTwo

1 month ago | fourfourtwo.com | Joe Mewis |Dani Gil

When Ludovic Giuly joined Barcelona for €7million from Monaco in 2004, he arrived as a title-winner and seasoned international who was in the prime of his career. He would score on his Barca debut and help the side win La Liga in his first season, snapping a six-year title drought at Camp Nou. But shortly after this, he know that his days in the Catalonian side’s first-team were numbered, as a youngster was making waves in the club’s La Masia academy.
‘When Lehmann fouled Eto’o, I put the ball in the net. I was on cloud nine, but then I realised that the referee had blown his whistle for the foul. It was unfair’ Ludovic Giuly on Barcelona’s dramatic Champions League final comeback vs Arsenal | FourFour

1 month ago | fourfourtwo.com | Joe Mewis |Dani Gil

Barcelona announced their arrival as a modern-day powerhouse in the 2005/06 season when they followed up their La Liga title 12 months earlier by conquering the continent and winning the club’s second-ever European Cup. Frank Rijkaard’s side faced Arsenal in the final of the Champions League in what was a dramatic clash in Paris as the Gunners fell agonisingly short in their first appearance in the final.
‘When we saw Sergio Busquets exaggerating, we felt a great injustice had been done. It made us mentally strong. We gave everything, we left our souls on the pitch’: Javier Zanetti on Inter Milan and Barcelona’s 2010 Champions League classic | FourFourTwo

2 months ago | fourfourtwo.com | Joe Mewis |Dani Gil

Inter Milan enjoyed the greatest season in their 100-plus year history in 2009/10, when manager Jose Mourinho led the Nerazzurri to the club’s first-ever treble. The achievement was secured when Inter saw off Bayern Munich 2-0 thanks to a Diego Milito brace in the Champions League final, but the chance to seal their place in the history books only came after an epic semi-final battle against a star-packed Barcelona side.
‘There was a time when it was said Xavi and I were incompatible - we proved the opposite. Our connection grew organically, without forcing anything’: Barcelona legend Andres Iniesta recalls early criticism when playing alongside team-mate | FourFourTwo

2 months ago | fourfourtwo.com | Ryan Dabbs |Dani Gil

Barcelona legend Andres Iniesta has reflected on his on-pitch relationship with former team-mate Xavi, highlighting that, despite their great success later in their careers, early on many didn't believe they could play together. Andres Iniesta and Xavi first played alongside each other during a 4-0 away win against Mallorca in 2002/03, with their final time on the pitch together coming during the 2014/15 Champions League semi-final second-leg against Bayern Munich, in which Barcelona won 3-0.
‘Mourinho convinced us with actions, not words. Immediately, he made us believe we were capable of making history. His confidence gave us wings’: Inter Milan legend Javier Zanetti on the Special One’s instant San Siro impact | FourFourTwo

2 months ago | fourfourtwo.com | Joe Mewis |Dani Gil

Jose Mourinho is currently on the 11th stop of his managerial career and with just one trophy win in the past eight years, it is perhaps easy to forget that used to be a time when his achievements far outstripped the headlines that he continues to make.

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RT @fernan_ruiz: Es emocionante ver jugar a Djokovic. Con su nivel de tenis hoy, ganaría a cualquiera. Solo Sinner y Alcaraz pueden jugar u…

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6 Jun 25

No hay en el mundo tres tenistas mejores que Djokovic. Solo dos. Y eso habla maravillas del serbio a sus 38 años, pero retrata a muchos de esos deportistas que tenían que dar un paso al frente y no lo han dado.

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Articles

‘Henrik Larsson found me with a pass and I hit the ball with my whole soul. When I saw it go in, I wanted to get up to celebrate - my body wouldn’t let me’ Juliano Belletti on his 2006 Champions League winner | FourFourTwo

‘Frank Lampard said in front of everyone that I was the best, even though he was given man of the match. I’d played out of my usual position and it was perfect’ Juliano Belletti on his Chelsea highpoint | FourFourTwo

‘Working for Mourinho was a great experience - he was a master at motivating and knew how to strike the right chord with each player. We were his soldiers’ Andriy Shevchenko on his loyalty to his former Chelsea boss | FourFourTwo

‘Ian Rush gave me a pair of Nike boots and I treasured them for years. I tried playing with them once, until my big toes poked through the toe area!’ How a Liverpool legend helped inspire Andriy Shevchenko | FourFourTwo

‘We dominated the game and I had a double chance that Dudek inexplicably saved. Football is beautiful for that reason. Never take anything for granted’ - Andriy Shevchenko relives 2005 Champions League defeat to Liverpool

'When I joined Barcelona, the president told me, ‘There’s this boy who will be superb’. He started training with us and I soon knew that he would replace me' Ludovic Giuly on knowing his Barca days were numbered | FourFourTwo

‘When Lehmann fouled Eto’o, I put the ball in the net. I was on cloud nine, but then I realised that the referee had blown his whistle for the foul. It was unfair’ Ludovic Giuly on Barcelona’s dramatic Champions League final comeback vs Arsenal | FourFour

‘When we saw Sergio Busquets exaggerating, we felt a great injustice had been done. It made us mentally strong. We gave everything, we left our souls on the pitch’: Javier Zanetti on Inter Milan and Barcelona’s 2010 Champions League classic | FourFourTwo

‘There was a time when it was said Xavi and I were incompatible - we proved the opposite. Our connection grew organically, without forcing anything’: Barcelona legend Andres Iniesta recalls early criticism when playing alongside team-mate | FourFourTwo

‘Mourinho convinced us with actions, not words. Immediately, he made us believe we were capable of making history. His confidence gave us wings’: Inter Milan legend Javier Zanetti on the Special One’s instant San Siro impact | FourFourTwo

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