Record in itself they say, is the only limitation that limits itself. However, it is bound to be broken and surpassed not just by imagination but reality painted out of mirage.

The football scene as seeing by many observers have been described as one unbroken unifying factor/status that has made the world converge as a unit inseparable body, defying every form of ambiguity of thought or personal ethnic and religious affiliations. Nevertheless, the superstition that people holds against the game through prediction and analysis cannot be undermined. Such is the case that no EUROPEAN TEAM has won the highly coveted prestigious UEFA  CHAMPIONS LEAGUE (an annual football cup competition organized by Union of European Football Associations (UEFA) for the top football clubs in Europe) back to back. It has actually made the pundits and soccer analysts in different settings of the game to become a perfect gambler in predicting the winner of a particular final that’s having a HOLDER of the cup and a new comer, though with no ascertained pedestal for safe landing of such argument.
 
No team has managed to win back-to-back Champions Leagues since it replaced the straight knockout competition that was the European Cup in the 1992/93 season. The last team that came closer to achieving this was MANCHESTER UNITED dated back to 2008/2009 season. But BARCELONA became the eventual winner of the playback, winning 2-0 [courtesy of goals from Samuel Eto'o and five (5) times world best football player, Lionel Messi] as it was expected by many owing to the general belief that record must definitely repeat itself.