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The hopes and dreams of Champions League teams

  • by Nicolle Zamora
  • February 12, 2019
The hopes and dreams of Champions League teamsArt by Hannah Carroll | @HannahCDesigns

Us football fans can be a ridiculous sight to those who do not feel the same passion as we do. For so many of us our entire emotional well-being on game day can be dependent on the action of 11 men—or women—over a 90-minute period. We experience great anguish or great joy according to the final score line (or maybe just a sense of unsatisfying discontent that we cannot shake until the gloom overtakes us). These are not just football feelings but universal emotions that most humans experience, and some humans then use that emotional energy to create works of art. It is not a stretch to say that watching the best players or an amazing football game can lead one to wax poetic; who hasn’t seen a sublime move by Messi and not be inspired? Who can say that they haven’t watched Zidane’s goal from the 2002 Champions League final and not felt a flutter in their heart or rush of blood elsewhere? The best players and the best games have a way of bringing out elaborate and effusive exclamations from the best of us.

The Champions League has almost alway delivered spectacular matches and dramatic results at some point during the yearly tournament. It’s no surprise, then, that the spirit of the last sixteen clubs in this season’s competition can move one to poetry … producing the following odes to hopes and dreams of lifting the coveted trophy come May.

 

Manchester United

Tending fallow seeds
Blossoming to potential
Devil’s flower blooms

Paris Saint-Germain

Sisyphean task
Looms ahead of hungry boys
Desperate for fame

Roma

Previous heights scaled
Icarus flying too high
They can burn too bright

Porto

Calm Casillas helms
The ship heading towards the edge
Of what can be dreamed

Tottenham Hotspur

Lost the dearest but
Familiar beloved Son
Charging forward on

Borussia Dortmund

Buzzing everywhere
Favre’s industrious workers
Bees looking to sting

Ajax

Youth go not to war
But a different battle
Fresh faces await

Real Madrid

High on the mountain
Top of an unending throne
Contenders restless

Lyon

Anemic defense
Yet brave Cornet undaunted
Hope prevails to all

Barcelona

Winged feet of Messi
Mercurial vision yet
Champions abound

Liverpool

The twin sons of Rome
Klopp’s she-wolf strength nourishes
His pack to glory

Bayern München

Robben’s fancy feet
Enemies’ cherry popping
Red blood in the wake

Schalke

Royal blues abound
Domestic frustrations yield
Continental hopes

Manchester City

Aguero shining
Bright-maned star amongst many
Wishing for success

Atlético Madrid

Determined stoking
The flames of the hot cauldron
Feeding their desire

Juventus

Conquering heroes
Questing for further triumphs
Far long remembered

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Nicolle Zamora
Nicolle Zamora (aka @Treble_Nikki on Twitter) was a founding member/co-host of The Treble, a footy radio show & podcast from 2004-2008 written, hosted, and produced by three football-crazed women that didn’t pay the bills but had a loyal & devoted following from around the world in which she was (in)famous for her Beckham gossip segments (technically she broke the Becks to Real Madrid move AND the Becks to LA Galaxy move but no one took her seriously & she is still bitter about that), mascot reporting, and bringing the Fernando Torres Euro 2004 hair debate to the public. She now pays her bills by working in the music industry in NYC while spending most of her free time yelling about Roma, both online and off.
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