(FILES) Porto’s Estadio do Dragao when it hosted the opening ceremony of Euro 2004
LISBON – After Lisbon last year, now it is the turn of Porto. Once again Portugal has stepped in to save UEFA by offering to host the final of the Champions League, which for the second year running was forced to move away from Istanbul due to the ongoing pandemic.
With its Covid-19 crisis receding, a proven ability to organise the biggest match in European club football and a good relationship between its national federation the FPF, and the European game’s governing body, Portugal turned out to be the only real option to stage Saturday’s clash between Manchester City and Chelsea.
“Once again we have turned to our friends in Portugal to help both UEFA and the Champions League and I am, as always, very grateful to the FPF…
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