When asked to explain his saves after the game, an emotional Dudek said he took inspiration from Pope John Paul II (a fellow Pole and goalkeeper in his youth) who died in April, the month before the final. Dudek dubbed it the “Hand of Pope”, an allusion to Diego Maradona dubbing his infamous first goal in the 1986 World Cup quarter final the “Hand of God”. The first game played at the stadium was on 19 September 1926, when Milan lost 6-3 in a friendly match against Internazionale. The stadium will be ringed by three grassy plazas and a fourth green space will be placed along University Avenue, near Snelling Avenue Station. In Real’s fourth match of September, their fourth match of the Liga campaign, Madrid recorded a 4-1 home win against Getafe, following a brace from Ronaldo, a goal from Pepe and a goal from Isco ensured the Madrid side the victory.
Under his rule, Real Madrid had won 14 league titles, 6 Copa del Generalísimo titles, 1 Copa Eva Duarte, 6 European Cups, 2 Latin Cups and 1 Intercontinental Cup. Liverpool became the fifth and final club to be given this honour after Real Madrid, Ajax, Bayern Munich and Milan – all of whom had either won at least five times (six in Real Madrid’s case) or three times consecutively. It was the six minutes that so stunned AC Milan that Carlo Ancelotti’s devastated players threw away their losers’ medals at the end. A number of substitutions were made before the end of full-time with Liverpool replacing Milan Baroš with Djibril Cissé, while Milan replaced Hernán Crespo and Clarence Seedorf with Jon Dahl Tomasson and Serginho respectively. Liverpool had one last chance at the end of extra time, but John Arne Riise’s free kick was blocked, and following this the referee signalled the end of extra time, which meant a penalty shoot-out would decide the championship. Kaká then scored the subsequent penalty to level the scores at 2-2. Šmicer took the next Liverpool penalty and scored with his eventual last competitive kick for Liverpool to put them on the brink of victory.
Liverpool become only the third club in the history of the competition to win it five times, and earn the right to keep the cup forever. He ultimately never played for another club in Europe, as he departed for the Los Angeles Galaxy of Major League Soccer a decade later. In addition to carrying out the genocide of Jews, Roma, Catholics, homosexuals and other unfairly marginalized groups, fighting the Allies in Europe, Africa and the Mediterranean and invading foreign nations, the Nazis also spent World War II counterfeiting. This is the only such cemetery in Australia, and also holds some of the dead from the World War II air raids on Darwin. The first official match in which Milan participated was in the Third Federal Football Championship, the predecessor of Serie A, losing 3-0 to Torinese. The following week, on 20 July, they contested the first friendly, an away match against neighboring side Solbiatese Arno. Business experts estimated that one in five workers took time off following the victory.
Milan had the last chance before full-time but Kaka failed to direct Jaap Stam’s header towards goal, meaning the final would go to extra time for the 13th time in the competition’s history. Milan and Liverpool had chances to take the lead after this, but Clarence Seedorf and Riise failed to score. Seedorf married a Brazilian woman, Luviana Seedorf, with whom he owns a restaurant called Finger’s in Milan. Three minutes after Šmicer’s goal, Liverpool were awarded a penalty, after Gerrard made a run into the Milan box for Baros’ lay-off and was brought down by Gennaro Gattuso. He hit his penalty straight down the middle of the goal and Dudek went down to his right, but blocked the shot with his left hand to give Liverpool a 3-2 win in the shoot-out. Liverpool 1-0 up. Andrea Pirlo was next for Milan, and his penalty was saved by Dudek who dived low to his right.