May 12, 1999 went to the next 28th UEFA Cup final . It has been 20 years since Moscow was entrusted with the right to host the final of one of the European football cups. For football fans, it was a great holiday, because to see the main match of the season, especially at home, in one of the European cups, it is a memory for a lifetime.It is possible on white to envy those who was present at that memorable match.
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In the 98/99 UEFA Cup our teams were extremely weak, so the Volgograd “Rotor” in the preliminary stage flew from belgradkapi “red Star”, Moscow Dynamo through all the qualifiers and the first round took off with a Bang in the second from the Spanish “real Sociedad”. In General, the UEFA Cup was considered for the time being the most inconvenient of the European cups for our teams, so our fans once again had to watch the game of other teams, not ours. But despite this, our fans will have a great chance to see the UEFA Cup final.
In Luzhniki, a few years before the final, work was carried out on the reconstruction of the stadium to meet the requirements of UEFA. First, the lighting masts and the bowl for the Olympic flame were dismantled, then from 1995 to 1997 a metal roof was installed over the stadium-a visor weighing 15,000 tons. Wooden benches were replaced by individual plastic seats, which reduced the capacity to about 84 thousand. That is, the stadium has been preparing for the final of this level for years.
In the final match met one of the strongest clubs in Italy and France of those years, “Parma” and “Olympic Marseille”. Before the game, the Moscow government ordered to ensure order in the stadium and try to prevent mass fights. In Moscow had flown only 3 and a half thousands of French his fans and about thousands of Italian. One of Newspapers wrote in run-up to match: “Newspaper Pravda.ru “of 10 may 1999.
The Moscow government, together with law enforcement agencies, is going to take all measures to ensure that the UEFA Cup final goes smoothly, without clashes between fans and vandalism. The match between the French “Olympic” and Italian “Parma” will be held on may 12 at the Big luzhnikov sports arena. It is expected that 3.5 thousand French fans and 1 thousand fans of Parma will arrive in Moscow.Yuri Luzhkov ordered to sell in places where football fans only beer and exclude from circulation spirits. “Let them be offended that we have a deficit, rather than rampage and allow vandalism at the stadium,” said the Moscow mayor. In this regard, he recalled how at one time fans of the Dutch Ajax” broke fifteen hundred seats. at the stadium “Dynamo”.
The favorite in the match was considered the Italian “Parma”, so the club were collected wonderful players such as Buffon, tyuram, Cannavaro, Crespo, Chiesa, bogossyan, Verona, Asprilla, Balbo, and the club went through all stages of the UEFA Cup powerfully, gaining strength with each round. In “Marseille” played Robert Pires, Florian Maurice, Laurent Blanc, and led the club scandalous coach Roland Kurbis, who will be known for his work in Russia. It is worth adding that Gianluigi Buffon(the legend of Italian and world football) still plays from the composition of that final.
Finale. Moscow. Stadium “Luzhniki”. May 12. 66700 spectators. Judge Dallas(Scotland)
Parma: Gianluigi Buffon, Lilian Thuram, Roberto Nestor Sensini (K), Fabio Cannavaro, Paolo Vanoli, Alain Boghossian, Dino Baggio, Diego Fuser,Juan Sebastian Veron(Stefano Fiore,77), Enrico Chiesa(Abel Balbo,73), Hernan Crespo(Faustino Asprilla,85). Coach: Alberto Malesani
Marseille:stéphane Porato, Patrick Blondeau, Laurent Blanc (K), Cyril Domoraud, Edson(titi Camara,46), Pierre Issa, Frederic Brando, Daniel Bravo, Jocelyn Gourvennec, Robert pirès, Florian Maurice. Coach: Roland Kurbis
Goals: Crespo(26) Vanoli(36) Chiesa(55)
The match was dictated by Parma, she made the score comfortable in the first half. At the beginning of the second half Enrico Chiesa set the final score of the match. The French did not have the strength to recoup at least one ball. Somewhere in the middle of the second half of the second half, Parma began to change their main strikers, in fact the match just finished. Parma deservedly won the 1998/99 UEFA Cup. Perhaps the match was not so interesting in terms of intensity, but for our fans this match was really a celebration of football.
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P.S. In the future ,Luzhniki will host the Champions League final and the world Cup final. Perhaps, thanks to this final of the 1998/99 UEFA Cup in our country it became possible to hold the world Cup. History does not tolerate subjunctions…
