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Nesta relives famous 2003 UCL final
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3/6/2024
Alessandro Nesta recalls his penalty kick during Milan's 2003 UCL final win over Juventus.
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00:00
What about the moment when you said "Wow, I think it's definitely the Champions League"?
00:06
My first year in Milan, we were playing the final against Juventus, the Champions League final at the Trafford stadium in Manchester.
00:15
The game ended in a draw, the coach convinced me to play a penalty, which is very difficult.
00:22
First of all, you're dead tired because you've had to adjust the time, plus the extra time.
00:27
Then you have to understand who wants to play a penalty, because not everyone wants to play a penalty in the Champions League final.
00:34
Some do it out of fatigue, some because they don't feel it and they have to be respected.
00:39
So the first problem is who's going to play?
00:41
Carletto was watching you.
00:42
No, Carletto wasn't.
00:43
No.
00:44
Because Carletto could never expect me to ask him.
00:47
So I said "Coach, I'll play the penalty".
00:49
"Are you sure?"
00:51
"Yes, coach, I'll play it".
00:54
He said "If I knock on the door, we'll try it".
00:57
So I went, but the pressure, I remember from midfield to the box, it was all about the rally.
01:04
I couldn't hear people, my brain didn't know where it was.
01:08
Now I look at myself, I look at myself, it happens to me that I've seen myself.
01:12
I say "I'm crazy, why did I go and get a penalty? Who made me do it?"
01:16
And then in front of me was Buffon, my great friend, the strongest goalkeeper of all time for me.
01:22
And I prepare myself, because I prepared myself.
01:25
In training I tried, I start, I've never scored a penalty in my life.
01:30
I open, Gigi, instead you stay still.
01:33
What do I do?
01:34
You don't have much strength if you load.
01:37
I opened the plate and it started.
01:39
He says, he says, and he puts his hand, he tries to take it, then he takes it in a strange direction.
01:44
But it's not my ability, it weighs badly.
01:47
I take the ball, I do this, because as a defender I start with a half-kicked, no, I hit it.
01:53
And I put it in.
01:55
So I think that night was the first great night of my career, where they made me take an international step.
02:02
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