UEFA Champions League Final

Yesterday was time for another Champions League Final. This time it's AS Monaco vs FC Porto. Last year's final between Juventus and AC Milan was boring as hell, I left the pub when it went to overtime. This year's should be interesting as both teams were underdogs at the beginning of the competition.

Monaco is an attacking team who depends a lot on Ludovic Giuly's creativity. His passes and runs usually feeds Fernando Morientes. Also Jerome Rothen is a hard-working left-footed midfielder who can cause panic along the left side.

Porto is a strong team overall with a hard defense to crack and skillful players such as Deco, Derlei and Carlos Alberto in the mix. They play as a team, as a unit and the one that stands out is the coach, Jose Mourinho.

The game started well, but after 23 minutes Giuly left the field because of an injury (which might even make him miss Euro2004). After that it was game over. Monaco lost 3-0, they didn't even had a single decent chance on goal even though they had a lot of possession of the ball. But an interesting final to watch in the pub nonetheless.

It's just the cars honking to celebrate Porto's win kind of kept me awake for a while.

And I found an interesting article about Adidas vs Puma. I know this trivia for a while, but did you know that the founders of Adidas and Puma were brothers?