Champions League: the six World Champions between Juventus and Real Madrid… plus one

There will be many stars in the field; glorious victories and triumphs could be talked about for days. Between the Scudetti won by Juventus, the Champions League raised to the sky by Real Madrid and the various Golden Balls won by Cristiano Ronaldo , if we were to put together team trophies and individual awards from the two clubs, we would need a showcase as big as the long side of a football field.
And then there is a re-match that is still hot, after the Champions League final between the Madrid and Turin clubs who competed for the 62nd edition at the Millennium Stadium in Cardiff and which saw the merengues triumph for 4- 1.
Real, after the curse for the “tenth” that was slow in coming, with Ancelotti first and Zidane then placed the third Champions League in the last four years; Juventus, on the other hand, after the disappointment of three years ago against Barcelona and still eager to complete an (almost) perfect cycle opened by Conte and continued with Allegri.
Two complete teams in all departments: experience and imagination are mixed with tactical intelligence and harmony between the various departments. Players who have played many finals behind them , with a thousand adrenaline, the charge and a bit of tension for a quarter-final that has the allure of revenge, but also of a strong jolt towards the final on May 26 in Kiev.But how many of them have played the final of a World Cup, winning it [/ vc_column_text] [/ vc_column] [/ vc_row]

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The Spaniard
Defender Sergio Ramos and the only surviving merengues to have won the World Cup in South Africa in 2010 . The rest of the crew who played for Real seven years ago and, in fact, left: Raul Albiol plays for Napoli, Alvaro Arbeloa played a season at West Ham, Xabi Alonso , after his adventure at Bayern Munich, has just retired and the historic leader and goalkeeper Iker Casillas , still active, defends the Porto goalposts.
Thus the central goalscorer Sergio Ramos and, in this final in Cardiff, the only Spaniard who has raised the prestigiouscup designed by Gazzaniga . He made his debut with the senior national team on March 26, 2005, four days before his 19th birthday; and during the celebrations for the 2010 World Cup triumph with the 1-0 victory against the Netherlands, Sergio Ramos wore a shirt with the photo of Antonio Puerta, his compatriot and former team-mate at Sevilla who died in August 2007 ;

The Germans
This year, among the Teutonic side Madrid and Turin side, it is the Juventus players who win: on the one hand Toni Kroos , 27, who joined the Madrid club in July 2014 as World Champion. On the other side, Sami Khedira, 30, with Juventus since 2015. Both midfielders, both protagonists in the 2014 expedition to Brazil, both scored in the same and only match of the entire competition: in the devastating 7-1 against the hosts . A small victory, actually, for Toni who scored a brace in that match.
But in the summer market, however, to upset the balance of this particular ranking, Benedikt Howedes, central defender, former Schalke 04, authentic protagonist at the Brazilian World Cup, arrived. Benedikt, in fact, played all seven games, not missing even a minute of play (including overtime). A safety for the Low coach.

The Italians
are the “older” onesto have won a World Cup. We have to go back to 2006, almost 11 years ago from the final in Berlin against France, on July 9th . Gianluigi Buffon and Andrea Barzagli are still today experience and effectiveness in defense: together with Bonucci and Chiellini they have formed, in this new Juventus era, one of the strongest and safest defenses in history. Only three goals conceded in this European adventure , thanks also to the saves of the 39-year-old Buffon who today, as then, still impresses with his reactivity between the posts .
After all, the sensational and phantasmagoric save on Zidane’s header in the final is still imprinted in our eyes …
And then there’s Barzagli, chosen in the squad of the 2006 World Cup even though he had played just six minutes in qualifying, which I collect two appearances in Germany, including the full 90 minutes of the quarter-finals against Ukraine in place of the suspended Marco Materazzi . After leaving the national team after the transfer to Wolfsburg , thanks to the intuition of Juventus that brought him back to Italy in 2011, Andrea has been one of the most reliable defenders in the last five years;

The Frenchman
He stopped playing, but is still a winner. Even though he now has a jacket and a tie and maintains a certain aplomb, certainly more than he did on the pitch . Zinedine Zidane, the prodigal son of Carlo Ancelotti as deputy on the bench of Real, is proving to be a trained and confident coach: he has already struck two Champions Leagues, one Liga, two European Super Cups, one Spanish Super Cup and two Club World Cups .

The last image of him linked to a World Cup is sadly known: he, from behind, walking away from the field and from the Cup, after the header inflicted on Materazzi . But when he wants, the former transalpine playmaker knows how to use his head to make the fans dream : 1998 World Cup , in France, final at the Stade de France in Saint-Denis against Brazil. A triumphant 3-0 with a brace from the playmaker number 10: two head shots, the second,with a lot of ball passed between the legs of Roberto Carlos .
In short, if we wanted to look at the champions who have won a World Cup, the match between Juventus and Real Madrid would end 4-3 … and which of these six will be the most decisive in the double match between home and away in the quarter-finals
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