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The "Holy Grail" of Football

The UEFA Champions League Trophy

Life is made of dreams for all of us, but footballers dream of winning trophies. Bayern Munich and Chelsea players will take on the pitch of the Allianz Arena on Saturday with the dream to win the “Holy Grail” of club football: The UEFA Champions League Trophy!

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The trophy was designed by Horst Heeren who used to work for a company called “Koch & Bergfeld” in the German city of Munich. His company got to know about UEFA’s bidding request for a trophy for its premier club competition in the 60’s.

Heeren was under pressure to present a design with many other orders waiting for processing. “We needed to get the job done quickly. We did everything to find something suitable for this special occasion. But the next job was waiting,” the 71-year-old Heeren told the news agency dpa.

Heeren has still no clue, why the UEFA chose his design with the order number 7995B/48. “The trophy has two grips, which are easy to grab and to push it into the sky. It is a positive effect, if you handle an object of such a height,” he told.

“It was just one job out of many others for us in those days. But it has a huge importance nowadays,” he concluded.

The UEFA handed over Heeren’s trophy for the first time in 1967 to Celtic FC. The Scottish side won the final 2-1 against Inter Milan.

Philipp Lahm, Bastian Schweinsteiger, Didier Drogba, Frank Lampard and co. will be eager to lift this “Holy Grail” into the Allianz Arena’s night sky.

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