Barcelona Beats Juventus For Champions League Title And A Place In History For The Fifth Times

 The record will show that the last kick of this season’s UEFA Champions League belonged to Barcelona striker Neymar. With one left-footed shot, he gave Barcelona a 3-1 lead over Juventus, jolted 20,000 Catalan fans into wild celebration and single-handedly ended the world’s most prestigious club competition.
But the victory was more than the top team in Spain grinding down the top team in Italy. On Saturday night in the Olympic Stadium here, Barcelona won its fourth Champions League title in a decade to cement its status as the most dominant club of its generation.
By the end of the night, there was quite literally a Catalan flag planted in the center of Europe’s biggest stage.

There can be no questions about Barcelona’s merit this season. For a competition that sets its matchups by random draw every round, the Champions League handed Barça a unique challenge through the spring. The club rose to it every time.
On its way to the lifting the trophy, Barcelona dismissed the reigning champions of England, France, Germany and Italy. What would have seemed unfairly complicated for any other team became Barcelona’s opportunity to demonstrate its power all over Europe. Barcelona marched through Manchester, Paris, and Munich on its way to Berlin.