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TIL after winning the 1962 European Cup, Benfica coach Béla Guttmann asked for a pay rise. When denied, he allegedly cursed the club and said: “Not in a hundred years from now will Benfica ever win a European Cup”. They have since reached 8 European Cup finals and lost all of them.

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