the champions league basically started because english football fans got a little too confident.
in 1954, wolves beat some european teams in friendly matches, and the english press started calling them world champions.
a french journalist named gabriel hanot wasn't convinced. he basically said, if they're really the best, why not create a competition to prove it?
a year later, the european cup was born.
kind of hilarious that one of football's biggest competitions started because someone wanted to settle an argument about who's actually the best.
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