{"id":58945,"date":"2017-06-04T07:31:20","date_gmt":"2017-06-04T06:31:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/?p=58945"},"modified":"2024-02-17T12:22:14","modified_gmt":"2024-02-17T09:22:14","slug":"real-madrid-wins-uefa-champions-league","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/real-madrid-wins-uefa-champions-league\/","title":{"rendered":"Real Madrid Wins UEFA Champions League"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Real Madrid were crowned winners of the Champions League on Saturday after beating Juventus 4-1 at Cardiff Millennium Stadium.<\/h2>\n<p>Superstar Cristiano Ronaldo opened the scoring in the 20th minute and became the first player ever to score in three different Champions League finals.<\/p>\n<p>Italian powerhouse Juventus quickly responded two minutes later when Croatian forward Mario Mandzukic executed an acrobatic volley to equalize.<\/p>\n<p>Although the first-half appeared the two teams were equally matched, the second half proved a different story as Juventus had no answer for a dominating Madrid squad.<\/p>\n<p>In the 61st minute, Brazilian midfielder Casemiro&#8217;s shot was deflected off Juventus\u2019 Sami Khedira to spin beyond the reach of goalkeeper Gianluigi Buffon. That score put Madrid in the driver\u2019s seat.<\/p>\n<p>Ronaldo added his second goal in the 64th minute to give his team a comfortable 3-1 lead.<\/p>\n<p>Sergio Asensio put in another goal for good measure making Real Madrid the first team to win back-to-back titles in the Champions League since the tournament changed its name for the 1992-1993 season from the European Champion Clubs&#8217; Cup.<\/p>\n<p>The victory was the twelfth title for Real Madrid in the team\u2019s Champions League history.<\/p>\n<span style=\"font-weight: bold; color: #f00;\">Error, group does not exist! Check your syntax! (ID: 8)<\/span>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Real Madrid were crowned winners of the Champions League on Saturday after beating Juventus 4-1 at Cardiff Millennium Stadium.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":58947,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[80,135,127],"tags":[377,6574,1125,3028,1722],"class_list":["post-58945","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-breaking-news","category-football","category-sport","tag-champions-league","tag-cristiano-ronaldo","tag-juventus","tag-real-madrid","tag-uefa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58945","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58945"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58945\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":78777,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58945\/revisions\/78777"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58947"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}