{"id":1025878,"date":"2026-05-17T13:32:14","date_gmt":"2026-05-17T13:32:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/de\/1025878\/"},"modified":"2026-05-17T13:32:14","modified_gmt":"2026-05-17T13:32:14","slug":"%f0%9f%8e%a5-20-years-on-from-paris-the-night-that-changed-barcas-fate-in-europe-%f0%9f%8f%86","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/de\/1025878\/","title":{"rendered":"\ud83c\udfa5 20 years on from Paris, the night that changed Bar\u00e7a&#8217;s fate in Europe \ud83c\udfc6"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>May 17, 2006<\/strong> is forever etched in the hearts of <strong>FC Barcelona<\/strong> fans. Today marks exactly two decades since the Paris final, the blessed stage where the Catalan club lifted its second <strong>Champions League<\/strong> after defeating <strong>Arsenal<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>That rainy night at the Stade de France did not begin well for the blaugranas. Despite playing with an extra man after the sending-off of the opposing goalkeeper, <strong>Jens Lehmann<\/strong>, <a href=\"https:\/\/onefootball.com\/de\/team\/arsenal-2\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Arsenal<\/a> took the lead thanks to a header from <strong>Sol Campbell<\/strong>. The ghost of lost finals loomed over Paris.<\/p>\n<p>However, football history is written with epic moments. In the second half, the changes introduced by <strong>Frank Rijkaard<\/strong> transformed the match. The introduction of <strong>Henrik Larsson<\/strong> proved decisive, bringing the composure and vision the team desperately needed.<\/p>\n<p>In just four magical minutes, glory switched sides. <strong>Samuel Eto&#8217;o<\/strong> sparked wild celebrations by scoring the equalizer after a brilliant assist from Larsson. Shortly after, the unexpected hero, <strong>Giuliano Belletti<\/strong>, completed the comeback with an effort from an almost impossible angle that beat <strong>Almunia<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>That Champions League not only ended a fourteen-year drought in Europe. The triumph in Paris changed the club\u2019s mentality and laid the foundations for the most glorious era in its history. Two decades later, the night <a href=\"https:\/\/onefootball.com\/de\/team\/barcelona-5\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Bar\u00e7a<\/a> ruled Europe again still shines just as brightly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"May 17, 2006 is forever etched in the hearts of FC Barcelona fans. Today marks exactly two decades&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1025879,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3933],"tags":[331,332,548,663,158,3934,3935,13,14,15,12],"class_list":{"0":"post-1025878","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-eu","8":"tag-aktuelle-nachrichten","9":"tag-aktuelle-news","10":"tag-eu","11":"tag-europa","12":"tag-europaeische-union","13":"tag-europe","14":"tag-european-union","15":"tag-headlines","16":"tag-nachrichten","17":"tag-news","18":"tag-schlagzeilen"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@de\/116590172471867728","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1025878","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1025878"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1025878\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1025879"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1025878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1025878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1025878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}