Athens hosted two great teams in the 1994 Champions League final, with many masters on both sides. A spectacle was expected between Capello's Milan and Cruyff's Barcelona, but in the end it came from only one team.
"Rossoneri", led by Montenegrin "genius" Dejan Savićević, "smashed" Romario, Hristo Stoichkov, Ronald Koeman, Pep Guardiola and friends 4:0.
Even more than Milan's dominance in that final, Savićević's Eurogoal is remembered - a lob for 3:0 that definitely "knocked out" Barça. Marcel Desai put an end to the triumph.
32 years later, the legendary Frenchman still talks with delight about the goal scored by Milan's then-number ten.
"It was incredible. Sometimes we talk about the corner goal from Marc van Basten in the 1988 European Championship final. But, Dejan Savićević... He is very smart and is truly one of the best I have ever seen," Desai told TV Arena Sport.
Desai watched the Europa League final between Aston Villa and Freiburg (3:0) in a suit, and in the same edition he recently met with his former teammate, now the president of the Football Association of Montenegro.
"Yes, we saw each other in Vancouver during the Fifa conference. He's an official now, a serious guy," joked the first man to win the Champions League two years in a row with two different teams (Marseille and Milan).
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