Cup Handover Ceremony in Glasgow on Thursday
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Media Release Route de Genève 46 Case postale Communiqué aux médias CH-1260 Nyon 2 Union des associations Tel. +41 22 994 45 59 européennes de football Medien-Mitteilung Fax +41 22 994 37 37 uefa.com [email protected] Date: 08/04/2002 No. 56 - 2002 Cup Handover Ceremony in Glasgow on Thursday FC Bayern München president Franz Beckenbauer to return trophy to UEFA The UEFA Champions League trophy will be officially handed back to UEFA by the 2001 champions, FC Bayern München, at a special handover ceremony to be held at the City Chambers in Glasgow at 13.00 on Thursday 11 April. UEFA’s Chief Executive, Gerhard Aigner, will receive the trophy and immediately hand it to the Lord Provost of Glasgow, Alex Mosson. After the handover, the UEFA Champions League trophy will be on display at the Kelvingrove Art Galleries & Museum during the period between 12 and 21 April and will then be on show in the Scottish Football Museum at Hampden Park from 22 April until the day before the final. The cup will be returned to UEFA’s Chief Executive, Gerhard Aigner, by the president of FC Bayern München, Franz Beckenbauer, who will be accompanied by legendary goalscorer Gerd Müller. Both were members of the FC Bayern side which defeated AS Saint-Etienne 1-0 when the final of Europe’s premier club competition was last played at Hampden Park in 1976 and Franz Beckenbauer, as captain, lifted the trophy. The final had previously been played at Hampden Park once before. It was, of course, the memorable 7-3 victory for Real Madrid CF over Eintracht Frankfurt which gave the Spanish club their fifth consecutive European crown and the right to keep the trophy. Francisco Gento played in all five finals and set a record which still stands today by winning the title for the sixth time when Real Madrid CF were again victors in 1966. ‘Paco’ Gento will be in Glasgow to represent the European record-holders along with Manuel Sanchís, who was the club’s captain when the Spanish team enhanced its reputation even further by winning the UEFA Champions League in 1998 and 2000. As the two clubs will have, on the previous evening, competed against each other for a place in the UEFA Champions League semi-finals, the guests will be flying in together from Madrid. To add to the list of victors, the ‘Lisbon Lions’ have been invited to the City Chambers. This was the nickname awarded to the Celtic FC players who beat Internazionale FC 2-1 in the Lisbon final to take the Champion Clubs’ Cup to Scotland in 1967. Jock Stein and Bobby Murdoch have died, but their widows have been invited to attend. Other celebrities will include John Greig, captain of the Rangers FC side which won the UEFA Cup Winners’ Cup final in Barcelona in 1972 and Willie Miller, skipper of the Aberdeen FC team which, with Sir Alex Ferguson at the helm, beat Real Madrid CF in the final of the same competition in Gothenburg in 1983. They will be accompanied by other players who have donned the European crown, such as the current Rangers FC goalkeeper Stefan Klos and Celtic FC captain Paul Lambert, who were team-mates when Borussia Dortmund beat Juventus FC in the 1997 UEFA Champions League final in Munich. The current Celtic FC manager, Martin O’Neill was a winner with Nottingham Forest in the 1980 final against Hamburger SV in Madrid, as was winger John Robertson, who was also a member of the side that beat Malmö FF in the 1979 final. Scotland’s World Cup referee, Hugh Dallas, will also be at the City Chambers along with Jack McGinn, president of the Scottish Football Association. Direct telephone line to the UEFA Media Services: ++41 22 99 44 55 9 Celtic FC 1966/67 Jock Stein used 15 players in the nine matches during the successful 1966/67 European Champion Clubs’ Cup campaign: Date of Birth Matches /Goals Nationality Ron Simpson 11.10.1930 9 Jim Craig 30.04.1943 5 Tommy Gemmell 16.10.1943 9 4 Bobby Murdoch 17.08.1944 9 Billy McNeill 02.03.1940 9 1 John Clark 13.03.1941 9 Jimmy Johnstone 30.09.1944 9 2 Willie Wallace 23.06.1941 3 2 Steve Chalmers 26.12.1936 9 5 Berti Auld 23.03.1938 8 Bobby Lennox 30.08.1943 7 2 Charlie Gallagher 13.11.1940 2 Irish John Hughes 03.04.1943 5 Joe McBride 10.06.1938 2 2 Willie O’Neill 30.12.1940 4 Jock Stein 05.10.1922.