The match started unexpectedly. After 12 minutes, intense pressure from Juve managed to defuse the Amsterdam's stylish game and, after a resounding error between van der Saar and Frank de Boer , Fabrizio Ravanelli stole a ball that he roughly pushed from an impossible angle towards the goal to make the first of the night

Sudden death began with edgar davids missing his centered shot. ciro ferrara however, he executed an unstoppable penalty, and the litmanen , Pessotto, Scholten and padovino they did their homework with great executions. The turn came again for the Ajax. the veteran silooy faced peruzzi but his mid-height shot was repelled by the Italian goalkeeper. The responsibility rested on the shoulders of Vladimir Jugović . The Serbian executed brilliantly and the nearly three meter tall Van der Saar (with outstretched arms, of course) were not enough: the Juventus was champion of Europe.

Gone were eleven years of torment after that final in 1985 that should never have been played. The Champions League of 1996 was considered by many as the first in history for the Juventus, or at least that is how the people of Turin celebrated it. The earlier victory had been overshadowed by the tragedy . "We had to wait a long time, we never considered Heysel in 1985 as a victory," said Roberto Bettega, champion that fateful day and vice president in 1996 .

Taken from Football citizens