These players have the unconditional status of the stars of world football, but none of them ever won the Champions League.
Football media platform “90min.com” was the symbolic team of the Champions League of star players who never won the main club tournament in the world.
In this list apart is the goalkeeper of Juventus Gianluigi Buffon, who three times got to the Champions League final (2003, 2015 and 2017), but each time was satisfied with a participation in the final match
Team of losers of the Champions League:
Goalkeeper: Gianluigi Buffon (Juventus, Italy).
Defender: Lothar Matthaus (Germany), Fabio Cannavaro (Italy), Lilian Thuram (France), Patrick Vieira (France).
Midfielders: Pavel Nedvěd (Czech Republic), Roberto Baggio (Italy), Diego Maradona (Argentina).
Forwards: Zlatan Ibrahimovic (free agent, Sweden), Ronaldo (Brazil), Eric Cantona (France).
Stock: Francesco Totti (free agent, Italy), Michael Ballack (Germany), Fabregas Fabregas (Chelsea, Spain), George Weah (Liberia) and Ruud van Nistelrooy (Netherlands).
The most titled players in the history of the Champions League are Cristiano Ronaldo, Clarence Seedorf and Andres Iniesta four participation in the victorious final.
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