Biggest Upsets In Football: Known to be a sport than can even make the dead come to their feet, relive the top 3 fairy tales in football
Football is not just any ordinary team sport, but a sport than can make real struggle and hardship of any team reach its much deserved glory. Although in football there have been teams who have stamped their authority for years after making their breakthrough. Yet, it is not an every season case that a new team emergence as a potential threat to win any championship.
However, even after knowing the modern-era competitiveness and dominance, there have been some teams who have been able to register themselves in the history books of the sport with their stellar breakout performances.
Stating the above, here are the top 3 fairy tales in football.
Biggest Upsets In Football
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FC Porto 2003-04 season
A season which proved to a fairy tale season not only for FC Porto but their manager Jose Mourinho as well. In the 2003-04 season, FC Porto completed their treble by becoming the 12th team to win the UEFA Champions League. They also won the Primeira Liga and Supertaca Candido de Oliviera.
It was the first time since 1994, a club outside Europe’s big four league that won the Champions League. Eventually after FC Porto’s treble triumph, the club was mugged by the Big European clubs as their manager and marquee players were all looted out of the club.
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Leicester City – 2015/16 Premier League Champions
It seemed like just an ordinary as any when Leicester City climbed at the top of Premier league table in the 2015/16 season. Led by their charismatic manager Claudio Ranieri, he gave birth to new Premier League superstars like N’Golo Kante, Jamie Vardy and Riyad Mahrez.
It wasn’t just an ordinary sight to be seen in the Premier League as all the other club supporters also wanted Leicester City to lift the title if not them.
Back to back stellar performances from the entire team made sure Leicester maintain their lead at the top. From incredible comeback to ruthless 5-0 wins, Leicester did it all to start their upward trajectory in the most emphatic fashion in the premier league.
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Deportivo de La Coruna – 1999/2000 La Liga Champions
A club which is not even known to many of the Spanish Football fans. Yet, Deportivo de La Coruna’s fairy tale was encrypted when many of the modern-era football fans were not even born. This club became the second-smallest Spanish side to ever win the La Liga title, the city compromises of only 250,000 people.
Not only did they beat the likes of Real Madrid and Barcelona in the 1999-2000 La Liga season, but after which followed their steep rise in the Spanish Footballing scenario wherein they finished four times in second place and another four times in third place, contesting the Champions League, five years in a row and reaching the semi-finals once, in 2004, where they lost to champions, FC Porto.