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TIL after winning the 1962 European Cup the Benfica coach Béla Guttmann allegedly cursed the Lisbon based club for denying him a pay rise “Not in a hundred years from now will Benfica ever win a European Cup”. They have since reached six European Cup Finals but lost all of them.

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