Soccer,the,origin,Champions,an sports Soccer: the origin of Champions and Europa League

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Normal 0 14 false false false IT X-NONE X-NONE /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable{mso-style-name:"Tabella normale";mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0;mso-tstyle-colband-size:0;mso-style-noshow:yes;mso-style-priority:99;mso-style-qformat:yes;mso-style-parent:"";mso-padding-alt:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt;mso-para-margin-top:0cm;mso-para-margin-right:0cm;mso-para-margin-bottom:10.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0cm;line-height:115%;mso-pagination:widow-orphan;font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri;mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-fareast;mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;}Champions and Europa League are the two most importantsoccer competitions as far as European clubs is concerned, and millions ofsupporters all over Europe follow the exploits of their favorite team watchingall the matches of Europa or Champions League. A contagious passion, which canbe compared to the passion that moves many European supporters to follow thematches of the national leagues, although the history of the internationaltournaments started a little later. The history of the European competitionsstarts neither with the history of soccer, nor with the first national leagues,and the idea to organize a tournament with teams of different countries began toflash through people’s mind only in the 1950s, more precisely in 1954. In thoseyears some French magazines started a debate to decide which was the bestEuropean team among Real Madrid, Milan, Honvéd and Arsenal, the then-leadingteams of Spain, Italy, Hungary and England. Following this debate, the Frenchnewspaper L’Équipe suggested FIFA and UEFA to organize a tournament with thebest European teams, and later on, also due to the intervention of many clubmanagers, the European club championship was really organized. The first match of the European Champions’ Cup (thiswas the first name of the UEFA Champions League) took place on the 4thof September 1955 between Sporting Lisbon and the Partizan Football Club, andthe first team to win was Real Madrid. In the beginning the tournament wasdifferent from now, with the elimination tournament mechanism, and only oneteam per country could take part in it; the club did not need to be the leadingteam of the national league, and was chosen by the national federations. Withthe passing of time the rules of the Champions League have changed, as well asthe name of the competition itself, which has been called UEFA Champions Leaguesince 1992-1993. The origin of the second European competition, i.e.the UEFA Europa League, which was called UEFA Cup until last year, is even more recent. The ten-UEFA Cup wasinstituted in 1971, replacing the Inter-Cities Fairs Cup, a competition thattook place from 1955 to 1971. The number of clubs taking part in the UEFA Cupwas higher than those which took part in the UEFA Champions League and in theUEFA Cup Winners’ Cup, and these were the clubs that in the national leagueshad been classified just after the clubs that could compete for the ChampionsLeague. The first club to win the Cup was Tottenham. The UEFA Cup, as well asthe Champions League, has changed throughout its history; in the last fewyears, in particular, along with the opening of the Champions League to includeother teams, it has been downsized. However, this has not undermined thesuccess of this competition, which is still considered as a prestigioustournament, which attracts many supporters and makes the clubs honored to takepart in it. To score in the Europa or Champions League is really exciting forboth the player and the supporters that watch the match from the terraces or inTV.  In conclusion, although the history of thesecompetitions is pretty recent, and although they have been reorganized anddownsized, the European soccer competitions can always galvanize players andsupporters.     Normal 0 14 false false false IT X-NONE X-NONE /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable{mso-style-name:"Tabella normale";mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0;mso-tstyle-colband-size:0;mso-style-noshow:yes;mso-style-priority:99;mso-style-qformat:yes;mso-style-parent:"";mso-padding-alt:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt;mso-para-margin-top:0cm;mso-para-margin-right:0cm;mso-para-margin-bottom:10.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0cm;line-height:115%;mso-pagination:widow-orphan;font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri;mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-fareast;mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;} Normal 0 14 false false false IT X-NONE X-NONE /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable{mso-style-name:"Tabella normale";mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0;mso-tstyle-colband-size:0;mso-style-noshow:yes;mso-style-priority:99;mso-style-qformat:yes;mso-style-parent:"";mso-padding-alt:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt;mso-para-margin-top:0cm;mso-para-margin-right:0cm;mso-para-margin-bottom:10.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0cm;line-height:115%;mso-pagination:widow-orphan;font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri;mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-fareast;mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;}