Snap shot: Real Madrid’s 1998 feat lap
As a sides ready to accommodate again in this season’s quarter-finals, it is scarcely 20 years given Predrag Mijatović’s idea warranted Real Madrid a 1-0 UEFA Champions League final win opposite Juventus in Amsterdam. “Where is Del Piero?” sang a Madrid fans of their opponents’ star striker. “Hierro has eaten him!”
What has happened to a players given then?
1. Christan Panucci
The initial Italian to play for Real Madrid, a right-back took his second UEFA Champions League winners’ award in Amsterdam – carrying won his initial with AC Milan in 1994. Left Spain in 1999, spending many of his after personification career during Roma. Currently manager of a Albanian inhabitant team.
2. Davor Å uker
Already 30 when he won his initial UEFA Champions League title, a Croatian striker finished his personification career with spells in England and Germany. He stays closely concerned in football as boss of a Croatian Football Federation (HNS).
3. Predrag Mijatović
Scorer of a usually idea in a 1998 UEFA Champions League final, a 73-times capped Yugoslavia brazen was to leave Real Madrid in 1999, personification for Fiorentina and Levante before retiring. He returned to a Santiago Bernabéu as sporting executive from 2006–09.
4. Bodo Illgner
The initial goalkeeper to keep a purify piece in a FIFA World Cup final as West Germany kick Argentina 1-0 in 1990, Illgner was a 1998 #UCL leader with Real Madrid, though was on a dais for a 2000 decider, carrying been usurped by Iker Casillas. A TV pundit given retiring, he and his mother Bianca wrote a novel, Alles (2004), about a football actor who is managed by his wife.
5. Clarence Seedorf
Already a leader with Ajax (1995), a midfielder won his second #UCL pretension in 1998, with successive successes during AC Milan (2003 2007) creation him a usually actor to win a foe with 3 teams. UEFA’s Global Ambassador for farrago and change, Seedorf is now manager of Deportivo La Coruña.
6. Fernando Hierro
The executive defender done 497 Liga appearances (439 of them for Madrid) before streamer abroad in 2003 to finish his personification career. The three-time #UCL leader was after on a coaching staff during Madrid, and many recently in assign during Real Oviedo.
7. Christian Karembeu
A broadcaster and UEFA Champions League envoy given retiring, a New Caledonia-born midfielder was a #UCL leader in 1998 though an new underling in a 2000 decider. He doubled adult weeks after Madrid’s delight in Amsterdam by winning a World Cup with France.
8. Fernando Morientes
A three-time #UCL leader with Real Madrid (1998, 2000 and 2002), a striker helped to energy Monaco to a 2004 decider, where they mislaid out to José Mourinho’s Porto. Was after a Real Madrid girl coach, and also does media work.
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