Triumph in Lisbon: How CSKA won the UEFA Cup 21 years ago

Triumph in Lisbon: How CSKA won the UEFA Cup 21 years ago Our first European trophy! Exactly 21 years ago, CSKA defeated Sporting and won the UEFA Cup.

And it all happened in Lisbon! It was a home final for the team from Moscow. It was also on the same stadium where the Russian national team lost to Portugal 1-7 just a year earlier.

But despite all that, the players under Gazzaev’s leadership played a brilliant match and made history! There are names that make one’s eyes moist with nostalgia: Ignashvili, Carvalho, Zhirkov, Wagner Lave, Aldonin, Berezuckys, Olić… And of course, Igor Akinfeev, who is still the goalkeeper of CSKA even 21 years later.