- Title: UK: REACTIONS TO LAZIO'S CUP WINNERS' CUP FINAL WIN OVER REAL MALLORCA.
- Date: 20th May 1999
- Summary: BIRMINGHAM, UK (MAY 20, 1999) RTV, UEFA OFFICIAL AND LAZIO COACH SVEN-GORAN ERIKSSON (RIGHT) ARRIVING FOR PRESS CONFERENCE WIDE OF PODIUM SOUNDBITE (ENGLISH) LAZIO COACH SVEN-GORAN ERIKSSON: "This is ours forever and nobody can take that from us. It was a very good game. We sufferd a lot because Mallorca has a very good team. We never lost in Europe this season. In two seasons we just lost one game - the final - against Inter last year. I think we deserved it, even if Mallorca was an extremely good team." CUTAWAY TO PRESS DURING PRESS CONFERENCE SOUNDBITE (SPANISH) REAL MALLORCA COACH HECTOR CUPER: "Nothing is consolation when we did not get the victory. We all feel the same way at this moment in time in my team. No words that can describe how we feel. We have a team that is really strong. No-one could imagine how we are feeling at the moment. when you go into a game you go into it with a certain mindset, a clear mind. I can only repeat there are no words to describe now we feel at the moment. We cannot even fathom it. Maybe tomorrow we will understand how we feel. But today I am very proud of my team and how they played." ROBERTO MANCINI IN SUIT WEARING MEDAL MKARCELLO SALAS IN WHITE SHIRT SIGNING AUTOGRAPHS PLAYER SIGNING SCARF CHRISTIAN VIERI (WITH BANDAGE OVER EYE) IN MEDIA ENCLOSURE LAZIO COACH SVEN-GORAN ERIKSSON (BLONDE HAIR, GLASSES) TALKING TO MEDIA LAZIO OFFICIAL WITH UEFA CUP
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- Location: BIRMINGHAM, UNITED KINGDOM
- Country: United Kingdom
- Topics: Sports
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- Story Text: There was champagne and tears as Lazio became the last
ever winners of the UEFA Cup Winner's Cup with a 2-1 victory
over Real Mallorca in a tight game in Birmingham on Wednesday
(May 19).
Lazio beat Mallorca 2-1 to win the 39th and last
European Cup Winners' Cup Final at Villa Park on Wednesday
with a spectacular volley from Czech midfielder Pavel Nedved
nine minutes from time.
Nedved earned himself a place in soccer folklore as the
last ever scorer in the competition which is being
discontinued by UEFA because of the continuing expansion of
the Champions' League.
It was enough to give Lazio's expensively-assembled side
their first ever European trophy and keep alive their dream of
a double this season by clinching the Italian title on Sunday.
It also put the disappointment of last season's defeat to
Inter Milan in the UEFA Cup Final behind them and gave Italy
their seventh success in the competition which was also won by
an Italian club, Fiorentina, in its first season, in 1960-61.
Lazio settled first on a warm spring night in England's
second city and grabbed the initiative after only seven
minutes when Christian Vieri rose high above Mallorca skipper
Javier
Olaizola to connect with a long, deep cross supplied from just
inside his own half by Giuseppe Pancaro.
Vieiri caused problems for the Mallorca defence all match
and not even an early clash with Roa, which left him
temporarily wearing a heavy bandage strapped round his head,
could stop him
creating turbulence in the normally stable Spanish defence.
But Mallorca, who went into this final at the end of their
first ever season in Europe without having lost a match en
route to the final, struck back with the equaliser four
minutes later.
After intercepting a loose Lazio ball on the half-way they
counter-attacked swiftly down the left with Jovan Stankovic
supplying the final cross for the perfectly-positioned Dani
who
powerfully side-footed the ball home under Luca Marchegiani's
body.
The stage was set for an attacking match and the 33,000
crowd were not to be disappointed.
Delighted Lazio coach Sven-Goran Eriksson said after the
match that the Trophy won by his team, the last in the
competition's history, could never be taken away.
"I feel very happy," the Swede said at the post-match news
conference following Lazio's 2-1 win in the final over
Mallorca.
"This is Lazio's first win in Europe.This is also the
last Cup Winners' Cup so the trophy is ours for ever.No-one
can take it away from us.
"It was a very good game.Mallorca are a very good team
but we deserved it.We've only lost one match in Europe in the
last two seasons and that was last year's UEFA Cup final
against Inter."
Eriksson said the trophy would be consolation for Lazio if
they failed to win the Italian league title when the season
ends on Sunday.
Lazio have led Serie A for much of the season but lost top
spot to AC Milan last Sunday and must hope their rivals slip
up against Perugia this Sunday while Eriksson's side beat
Parma.
"We'll try to beat Parma and see if it's enough for us to
be champions of Italy," he said.
"Whatever happens, we've had an extremely good season.
We're undefeated in Europe, we won the Italian Super Cup and
we're fighting for the league title to the end."
Mallorca trainer Hector Cuper said: "Finals are won, not
lost.We had great opponents with excellent players of superb
quality and although we had chances to win, Lazio won because
we ran out of the luck you need to win a European final.
"My players feel hurt and sad and, at the moment, it is
difficult to find words of comfort but tomorrow we will be
proud of the great job we have done in reaching this final."
Mallorca reached the final in their first season in
European competition.
Man of the match Christian Vieri of Lazio, who scored the
first goal, said: "Mallorca are a great team but we were never
afraid.We were always
Results of the European Cup Winners' Cup Final since the
competition began in 1960-61.
Year Venue Winners Runners-up
1961 (Two legs) Fiorentina 4 Rangers 1 agg
1962 Stuttgart Atletico Madrid 3 Fiorentina 0 (1-1)
1963 Rotterdam Tottenham Hotspur 5 Atletico Madrid 1
1964 Antwerp Sporting Lisbon 1 MTK Budapest 0 (3-3)
1965 London West Ham United 2 Munich TSV 1860 0
1966 Glasgow Borussia Dortmund 2 Liverpool 1 aet
1967 Nuremberg Bayern Munich 1 Rangers 0 aet
1968 Rottberdam AC Milan 2 Hamburg SV 0
1969 Basle Slovan Bratislava 3 Barcelona 2
1970 Vienna Manchester City 2 Gornik Zabrze 1
1971 Athens Chelsea 2 Real Madrid 1 (1-1)
1972 Barcelona Rangers 3 Moscow Dynamo 2
1973 Salonika AC Milan 1 Leeds United 0
1974 Rotterdam Magdeburg 2 AC Milan 0
1975 Basle Dynamo Kiev 3 Ferencvaros 0
1976 Brussels Anderlecht 4 West Ham United 2
1977 Amsterdam Hamburg SV 2 Anderlecht 0
1978 Paris Anderlecht 4 Austria/WAC 0
1979 Basle Barcelona 4 F.Duesseldorf 3 aet
1980 Brussels Valencia 0 Arsenal 0
5-4pens
1981 Duesseldorf Dynamo Tbilisi 2 Carl Zeiss Jena 1
1982 Barcelona Barcelona 2 Standard Liege 1
1983 Gothenburg Aberdeen 2 Real Madrid 1
1984 Basle Juventus 2 Porto 1
1985 Rotterdam Everton 3 Rapid Vienna 1
1986 Lyon Dynamo Kiev 3 Atletico Madrid 0
1987 Athens Ajax Amsterdam 1 Lok. - Copyright Holder: REUTERS
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