(crowd chants)
(dramatic orchestral music)
(whistle blows)
- It's not only about sports.
- Messi, Messi, Messi!
- It's not just about the amazing ability.
- Football is a language in itself.
It surpasses all barriers.
When I get the ball at my feet, I feel absolute love.
- When it gets to the pitch, we're on equal grounds.
- Leo was born like this.
- Messi, Messi, Messi, Messi.
- The goosebumps and the emotions, phenomenal.
- Football can help bring communities together.
(man shouts)
- We could become bigger and greater through football.
Football is not a game, it's emotion.
It comes from the heart.
(uplifting music)
- There is something in football that also exists in real life,
and that's chance.
In football things happen just like in real life
that come out of the blue,
and this unpredictability is what makes football so compelling.
At the 2002 World Cup Final,
I played six top-level matches at that World Cup,
I was in the form of my life,
but made one mistake... just one mistake.
And that was in the final,
which meant the Brazilians took the lead 1-0,
and we lost the match 2-0.
Well... Why? This is just like in real life.
Sometimes it makes no sense to ask why things happen.
They just happen.
Everyone nowadays tries to limit the element of chance as much as possible,
to control, predict and analyse everything.
Yet you can't exclude chance,
and that's the beauty of football.
(inspirational music)
- Luck is something that is out of your control.
I think one of the characteristics of football
is to be not really predictable.
If everything would be predictable,
it would be less interesting.
But even in life, you try to minimize the possibility
to not control something.
- Luck is a big part of the game, the chance.
That split second in which a game change.
There's a lot of components that come
to this bag of luck, of chance.
Split second, instant, things that you cannot really explain
in words, but they're key in football.
Which I think makes football unpredictable
and makes football probably the most exciting sport
or show in the world.
(dramatic orchestral music)
(crowd roars)
- When I was 8 years old, my father died.
I was in a home,
an orphanage
near Stuttgart in a very small village.
Ran away. The big city.
Everything new. Very naive boy.
1970... no money, no school, no education.
And I had a very tough experience of Frankfurt,
living on the street and under bridges too.
But that changed really quickly,
as at some point I integrated into this city.
(inspirational music)
I love this city.
This city gave me a chance.
Then at some point Eintracht Frankfurt came along.
That was it.
(suspenseful orchestral music)
- The seventies were actually the beginning of the Bayern Munich legend.
They won the European Cup, now the Champions League, three times in a row.
- ANNOUNCER: Bayern Munich have won the European Cup
for the third successive year!
- With Franz Beckenbauer, Sepp Maier, Paul Breitner.
Later Karl-Heinz Rummenigge.
(crowd cheers)
A truly legendary era with real superstars.
The secret of Bayern Munich's success is in their culture, their way of thinking.
If you're at a different club they say, "Maybe we can be German champions."
But if you're at Bayern Munich they say, "We will be German champions."
(crowd roars)
- This city always had great desire,
and waited so long to win something.
German Championship 1959,
none of you were born in 1959.
(inspirational orchestral music)
And this great international city always had the desire,
"We should be champions! We should win the cup!"
People waited thirty years to win something.
Thirty years!
During this time the relationship
between the fans and the club was marked by longing,
"When will we get our chance?"
(suspenseful orchestral music)
With this longing comes a unique atmosphere.
I invite anyone to come here.
You need to feel and try it out for yourself.
You'll get goosebumps.
Goosebumps. Then you'll understand
what's special about us in Frankfurt.
- My first game was at the beginning of the eighties.
I was still a boy.
My love for Eintracht has grown ever since.
(crowd chants)
- We've also experienced a lot together,
relegations, standing together in the stadium,
but also promotions.
Frankfurt is special in that they've won very few trophies,
waiting for a trophy for thirty years,
but still have almost 50,000 people coming to the stadium every week.
That's just crazy.
(crowd roars)
- Chance is a rather widespread and difficult phenomenon.
You'll find it from dice throwing to quantum mechanics.
I would say to people that do not believe
in luck in football, that they just have to look
at a series of football matches,
and with a little bit of openness for these phenomena,
they will see this influence of luck very easily,
because it's there in almost 50% of the goals.
(uplifting music)
We took a large sample, and we took complete seasons
of Bundesliga and the English Premier League,
and we examined almost 2,000 goals,
and I defined six chance variables that were indicators
of uncontrolled, unplannable way how goals were scored.
We have such variables as balls that hit post or bar
before crossing the line.
And when we add up all those percentages
of the six variables, we arrive at 47%.
And very interesting for me was that the figure differed
between Bundesliga and Premier League
by about only point three percent.
That means it is a very stable property.
Sometimes I call it the natural constant of football,
that we have almost half the goals scored
when they have a chance variable.
- I think for a long time Bayern tried to reconnect
with their glorious past of the '70s,
and had this really long stretch
where the European Cup was their big obsession.
Now it's called the Champions League.
(uplifting orchestral music)
For whatever reason, they couldn't quite get there.
They hadn't won the European Cup since 1976.
Then of course, they make it to the final.
- I can still remember it well, but you should never
mention that year to a Bayern fan. Never.
1999. And we played against Manchester United in the Champions League Final.
(crowd cheers)
- ANNOUNCER: And refereeing this illustrious occasion
is the Italian, Pierluigi Collina.
- The Champions League final is the most important match
in club competition in the world.
(uplifting orchestral music)
I become a referee without any particular reason.
I was put in football as a youngster.
I was asked by my desk mate at the school,
"Why don't you come with me to do something different,
"to attend a referee's course?"
The referee, as the role,
try to help control more the random things
that can occur during a match.
Basically, it's the quality of the decision made
which really make a good referee.
(crowd jeers)
In 1999, the Champions League Final in Barcelona.
It's considered the ultimate final in the history
of the Champions League, not because of the 90 minutes,
but only because of what happened during the stoppage time.
We were leading 1-0 until the 90th minute in Barcelona.
- ANNOUNCER: Goal! - (crowd roars)
- We already had one hand on the cup, one hand.
- COLLINA: I think everyone were ready to celebrate Bayern Munich
as the winning team. - ANNOUNCER: Toss by Cole!
But it hits the woodwork and the keeper claims it!
- RAPHAEL: They take the lead in the first half.
They're completely outplaying United.
- ANNOUNCER: This looks dangerous!
Great save by the keeper!
Surging towards goal, he shoots!
Schmeichel parries it away!
Headed back in, acrobatic shot!
(crowd roars)
- COLLIMA: What happened in the stoppage time was very, very unusual.
- ANNOUNCER: Three minutes of stoppage time.
United are throwing everything at this,
even the keeper's gone up.
Back out, Teddy as far as Giggs, and Sheringham toes it in!
Just when it looked like it might all be over,
Manchester United have an equalizer.
- In the 91st minute they equalised.
Then in the 93rd minute Manchester went 2-1 up.
- ANNOUNCER: The pullout floated in.
Headed on. United have got another!
(crowd roars)
And United snatch victory in the dying seconds.
- I think we can say, that was the mother of all defeats.
Nobody could believe it. What happened was a shock.
- RAPHAEL: You can always say the team who wins,
they win by scoring more goals than the other team,
so this is not luck, this is just them being better.
At the same time, we too often think,
if he can only hit the ball properly,
as he would do in 99 out of 100 attempts,
the game is probably over.
But he somehow slices the ball,
and that leads to the equalizer.
(crowd cheers)
Destroying. It's devastating.
The Manchester United fans were behind my goal in Barcelona,
and the noise of these 30,000 Manchester fans when they scored for 2-1,
it was unbelievable.
I still wake up in the night sweating and hear
the Manchester fans behind me again.
- COLLIMA: So you have the winning team players,
we are crazy for something
that they thought they could not have achieved.
Probably that joy was made so big
because it was not expected.
Try to fight until the last breath you have,
because something can happen.
(dramatic orchestral music)
- Winning is easy. Anyone can win.
But I think the real character of a person
is shown when things don't work out.
And the team back then drew strength from that defeat,
and said to itself, "This won't break us."
- RAPHAEL: 1999, I think, in the internal narrative of Bayern Munich,
has gone from being the worst game ever
to the game that spurred them on
to then go and defeat their demons two years later.
Two years later we made it to the final again, this time against Valencia,
and thankfully we won the Champions League.
We were lucky on that day,
and we should be aware of that and later, not start saying...
"Oh, we are so great heroes." No, no, no.
At certain moments you need luck on your side,
and we had it, and we're grateful.
(crowd roars)
- ANNOUNCER: Bayern Munich have emerged as victors.
- MARTIN: The antique goddess of chance is Fortuna,
and she is shown very often as a blind person,
because luck is blind.
(dramatic orchestral music)
- The real excitement about football,
it isn't always the best team that wins the game.
That's just something you have to accept as a fan.
And when you measure these things,
I think it comes down to around two thirds, one third.
That's what the, in the Premier League, for example,
in the Bundesliga, those are around about the statistics.
Two thirds randomness,
and one third who is the best side.
Typically, there's three goals in a football match.
One goal goes to the best team, we'll give them that.
And then the other two goals,
they go randomly between the two teams.
And that's what's so exciting about football.
'Cause various studies have been done,
saying what's the most random outcome sport,
and football always tops these things.
I don't think that you can perform top-level
as a football player, and not accept
that there's a great deal of randomness
in what happens to you on the pitch.
(uplifting music)
- I grew up in a sleepy town in Switzerland.
I had this dream of going pro.
I was looking to maybe go and play
in the Bundesliga in Germany, but I came to London.
Playing for Chelsea, I experienced such a great time there.
(crowd chants)
- ANNOUNCER: Shot for a distance, and Roberto Di Matteo scores!
- ROBERTO: And then everything changed in one moment.
(whistle blows)
(crowd boos)
(ominous music)
- ANNOUNCER: That looks bad for Di Matteo,
possibly even a broken leg.
- ROBERTO: There was a triple fracture,
and my tibial nerve was affected by it.
So I lost feeling and movement of my foot.
- ANNOUNCER: Di Matteo is stretchered off, and worryingly,
that looks like it could be serious.
- ROBERTO: It was just one of those casual clashes that you have.
You have millions of them during a career,
and he just slipped in front of me and went through my leg,
and that was it. It was just, I guess,
destiny, or misfortune,
or one of those things that change your life.
(somber orchestral music)
The physical and emotional and mental pain I went through
with that break was beyond anything I could ever imagine.
And you're thinking, oh my God, can I ever play football again?
And then the surgeon came in and said,
"Let's have a look at your life after football,
"just make sure that you're gonna have a normal life,
"being able to play in the park with your children."
That's when it really hit me.
It was terrible for many, many months,
and I suffered depression as well.
I had to work through that as well.
It was terrible.
(dramatic orchestral music)
- COLLIMA: I grew up in the country, Italy,
where football is a sort of religion.
Football is a part of daily life.
Decision made by the referees on the field of play
leads into discussions and different opinions by everybody.
One of the main difficulties in football
is the discretion given to the referee
to make his own interpretation.
It's very subjective.
Certainly the decision of the referee in football
can have an impact on the outcome of the match
more than in other sports.
If you make a mistake in a basketball match,
it's rare that it has an impact on the result,
because player have many more chances to score.
In football, one nil, based on one decision
can be different.
We are not perfect.
We are human, we are not robots.
(melancholy music)
- And then it was the nineties,
with highs and lows, and then came Rostock.
Rostock is a very long car journey,
we drove there with two friends.
- Every expert was saying,
and I still believe they are right,
that in '92 we had the best team of the Bundesliga.
The most offensive-playing team, a very strong squad.
(crowd cheers)
- We really had a chance to finish the season
as German champions.
We just had to win a game in Rostock.
It should have been an easy game.
- It didn't work out like that,
it was never going to be that way.
We lost the game with everything that went on,
with a penalty given or not given...
- We created many chances and then at 1-1,
a clear penalty which the referee didn't see.
But it was a penalty.
It was 101% a penalty, but it wasn't given.
And we hit the crossbar, hit the post,
had four or five more clear chances, but the ball just didn't want to go in,
and that's why we lost that match 2-1.
- AXEL: Almost German champions,
and then gone on the very last day.
That really hurts a lot, and it still hurts very much.
- ARMIN: This day, this weekend, Frankfurt died.
It was an unbelievable, sad weekend.
Some of the players left team after that,
and we were not able to build up a new squad
that had the quality, which led us
to the first relegation 1996, only four years later.
- The longing is endless.
The seventies were good,
the early eighties were good in the cup,
cup winners, cup winners...
And then always waiting for a chance in a game again.
You always remember what you have achieved.
The victories and the last goal endure,
that is what we remember.
People like to forget the chances we didn't take.
(dramatic orchestral music)
(crowd roars)
- When I was asked to stay on
as football manager at Chelsea, I was privileged.
I didn't expect it,
and it was a bit of a transition period for the club.
There was a divided dressing room, so it wasn't an easy one.
- We were the underdogs in the championship,
and we felt that we were almost kicked out.
And the months until the end of the season
could have been a disaster.
But that changed.
(crowd cheers)
- ANNOUNCER: In towards, to the end, drop back!
He's in the game now!
That goal seals it,
Chelsea are going through to face Barcelona!
That's a great ball from Lampard.
And here's Ramires, oh, what a goal!
What a goal by Ramires!
He's round the keeper, he's walked it in,
and as things stand, Chelsea will go through
to the Champions League Final!
Chelsea have found that old heart and soul
to defy the odds, the experts,
and most importantly, the champions.
- It was just unbelievable.
In the dressing room, it was that feeling of
maybe we can do it, maybe we can win
against Bayern Munich in Munich.
Again, we were the underdogs,
and everyone was expecting Bayern Munich
to beat us three for nil.
(fans chant)
- Bayern playing at home in the Allianz Arena.
This is a once in a lifetime opportunity.
We will get crowned European Champions in our own city.
This is gonna be the ultimate achievement.
The team who makes it to the final is a Chelsea team
that have an interim coach,
and who just don't look very dangerous.
(crowd cheers)
- Germany, they know how to win, they have this mentality.
When the shit hits the fan, you can count on the German.
And they have this stillness in them
that's tough, tough to beat.
We had four suspended players, and also we had an issue
with the two center half that eventually played in the game,
'cause they had been injured.
So everything was probably against us.
- A team like Bayern, they understand, of course,
that there's luck and there's randomness in football,
and they build that into their model,
eliminating as much of the chance as possible.
(dramatic orchestral music)
- MATA: To play against them is very difficult,
they don't seem to panic.
They are losing one nil or whatever,
and there's three minutes to go, and they don't panic.
They keep going the same way,
they keep believing they can do it, and they normally do it.
- ANNOUNCER: Arjen Robben again.
Might have a shot!
And Cech bungles it onto the woodwork!
- MAN: Bayern really dominated that game.
- Chelsea spent the whole game just defending,
trying to hope for something to happen.
- ANNOUNCER: Cross comes in, Muller hits it!
Just wide.
- Some teams have a very good possession type of game,
but for the most part, possession actually
doesn't predict whether a team is going to win.
Shots on goal, they are actually a very important statistic.
- ANNOUNCER: Just put it over!
- DAVID: And that's where the luck comes in.
It really is that final moment
where the striker hits the ball,
and sometimes it just slides out and misses the goal.
That's where the final moment of luck comes in.
(inspirational orchestral music)
- ANNOUNCER: Diagonal pull.
Muller gets it down, and it's past Cech!
And in!
(crowd cheers)
- MATA: I felt that we were gonna do something.
I don't know to explain it,
but I felt that it was written in the stars.
Didier Drogba, he was completely down.
He thought that we had lost, and then I told him,
no, come on, Didi, let's go, let's keep playing,
we're gonna have one chance, we're gonna do it.
- ANNOUNCER: Time is running out for Chelsea.
- Probably the most important corner I ever took.
- ANNOUNCER: Drogba jumps and scores!
The goal has handed Chelsea a lifeline!
(crowd cheers)
And that's it, there's going to be 30 minutes of extra time.
- We were dying, and then we came back again.
(uplifting music)
- I think it's important to believe in luck.
It's definitely important.
You make your own luck because even when you train a lot,
you sometimes also need a bit of luck to help you win.
- These alternating ups and downs, personally
they're what I like most about football and Eintracht.
- He came when he was young and he had no choice but to become an Eintracht fan.
That's the way it is,
and that he's still a passionate fan despite this.
- We have a close relationship to our fans.
It comes from the dark days in the end of the '90s,
when the club was between second league and first league,
and we were running out of money.
And that means that the fanbase at the end
was really the core value of the club,
and the heart, and the emotion.
- For sure, it's not easy being an Eintracht fan.
To be an Eintracht supporter means
that you don't win a title every season.
It's easy to be a Munich fan
because they win it all the time.
- On the other hand, sporting failure
and relegation has created something in the fan culture,
"We have to be there now and not only when things are going well.
Yeah. Hurray, hurray. No, when it's not going well."
We understand how the game works,
it doesn't matter, we're excited,
and if we lose and have given everything,
then all the fans will stand up and say...
Thank you, team.
(suspenseful music)
- 2012, Bayern managed not to win the game in 90 minutes,
they only managed to draw one one.
They then get another opportunity in extra time.
(whistle blows)
- ANNOUNCER: Robben strikes it, Cech saves!
- DAVID: Bayern had 35 shots during that match.
And not only did they have lots of shots,
they actually had a lot of very good quality shots.
So I went back through that game
and analyzed the statistics of shots
to quantify the probability of scoring
from different places.
They had about four chances,
which I give five to 15% chance of going in.
They had eight chances, which were 15 to 30% chances.
They had a penalty, which is a 75% chance.
And if you add all of those chances up,
you would expect on a normal day of football,
Bayern would've scored at least three goals in that match.
If you added up Chelsea's chances, on the other hand,
they had a total of naught point two goals on average,
so 20% goals on average.
And so on a normal day of football,
they wouldn't have scored any goals at all.
So you really, statistically,
you've got a three nil victory for Bayern there.
(suspenseful music)
- ANNOUNCER: So the Champions League Final is going to go to penalties.
- At that moment, I don't think any player
is in their best condition to shoot a penalty.
- And Juan Mata is like, he's kind of struggling
in the last few minutes in extra time.
And so I'm thinking, shall I change him?
I need him for the penalties.
- I told him no, please, I wanna shoot.
I wanna stay and I wanna shoot, and I wanna shoot first.
- ANNOUNCER: Mata steps up, and the keeper stops it!
- So he goes and misses the first penalty,
you know, quite important.
Ah, Juan Mata.
- MATA: I was totally devestated.
The only thing you want at that moment is please,
I don't wanna lose just because of my penalty.
- ANNOUNCER: Puts it to the side.
Hits it hard, and past Petr Cech.
- MATA: I felt they were scoring every penalty.
And then at some point, Petr Cech saved my life.
(crowd cheers)
(uplifting music)
After that moment, if we lose,
it was not just because of me. Only because of me.
(crowd groans)
- You do not need the help of chance to convert a penalty.
It's the skill of the player.
If they hit it hard in the corner,
the goalkeeper does not have a chance at all.
- DAVID: You've got 100% chance of it going in
if you hit that top corner.
But then the risk, of course, is you miss,
and it goes over the bar.
But then you've got the other, safer strategy,
and that's the one where you try
and place it past the keeper left or right,
nearer to the middle of the goal,
'cause you're guaranteed that it will go in.
- ANNOUNCER: Cole puts Chelsea level!
It's balanced on a knife edge.
- DAVID: If you send the keeper the wrong way, then you'll score,
so there's a 50% chance of you doing that.
And then if the keeper goes the right way,
there's about a 50% of them scoring,
and overall, the penalty success rate is around 75%.
That's very consistent over different penalty takers.
- ANNOUNCER: Bayern looks to regain the advantage.
(dramatic orchestral music)
Denied by the woodwork!
Chelsea are one penalty away from the trophy.
- My friend Bastian Schweinsteiger missed the decisive penalty.
And I will never forget this, he shoots, misses and slumps.
- RAPHAEL: Bastian Schweinsteiger hits it well enough,
but Cech is at full stretch,
and with his fingertips just puts it onto the post,
and it doesn't go over the line.
That is luck and misfortune encapsulated in one moment.
- Sometimes a fingertip is decisive,
a fingertip that maybe touches the ball at the last second,
and the ball hits the post.
That can decide if you're World Champion or win the Champions League,
or something else. Just a tiny, minimal action.
I think that any true fan
has often asked themselves,
"Why did the ball hit the inside of the post,
"and from the inside of the post come out again?
And why did the ball hit the inside of the post and go in?"
We shall never know.
- ANNOUNCER: And so much depends on this penalty.
(inspirational orchestral music)
(whistle blows)
Chelsea have beaten Bayern Munich!
(crowd roars)
- MATA: It was destiny, we had to win.
We did it in the most exciting way.
- ROBERTO: It was a fairytale ending for the season.
We certainly made our own destiny.
There was so much work behind it and details behind it,
that we somehow probably deserved
to have that fortune a little bit, as well.
But you look at many, many successes, along the way,
there is always a little bit of fortune, always.
(crowd roars)
- Three months earlier, it looked like a disaster,
and it looked like we will end up all being fired.
(uplifting music)
- I was in Munich in the finals, so I can testify
that Bayern Munich played better than Chelsea,
but this part of the game is unpredictable.
The underdog in football sometimes win.
Not often, but I repeat, there is something unpredictable
which make football entertaining.
- RAPHAEL: I think there's something in the German mindset
that sees football as a problem that needs to be solved.
But football has been very resistant,
and has some kind of inbuilt random generator
that thwarts these attempts time and time again,
and even Bayern, the most efficient
and most organized team perhaps in European football
have found, to their detriment,
that they can't master the odds all the time.
- Bayern Munich have a great tradition of losing finals
in a highly-dramatic way, like the Champions League finals.
I think it's a great skill to learn from the worst defeats
and turn this into victory again.
What did Bayern Munich do?
One year later, they made it to the final again.
Borussia Dortmund at Wembley and they won 2-1.
- ANNOUNCER: Last year they suffered defeat.
Now Bayern lift the trophy as champions!
- That's the spirit that makes Bayern Munich so strong.
That's the great spirit of Bayern.
(suspenseful music)
- RAPHAEL: The Frankfurt are one of those blue chip clubs
in the Bundesliga.
They've been there from the very start.
Big support, big tradition, big history, big fanbase.
But unlike Bayern, not nearly as same,
they have a lot of sporting success.
So they find themselves coming up against Bayern in 2018
in the German Cup, in a position of total underdogs,
having not won any trophies in 30 years,
whereas for Bayern, picking up the German Cup
has almost become sort of an annual tradition.
- The waiting... the desire...
and then this cup.
To beat Bayern Munich as the underdog.
- 2018... May 19th...
experiencing this day together as a family,
with those around us...
what an impact it had on the region!
(crowd cheers)
(announcer speaks over P.A. in foreign language)
(crowd chants)
- All the fans met up in Berlin.
I went on stage before the match,
I stood there full of emotions and said,
"I have never won a cup.
I've never won anything before,
and everybody is saying we've got no chance today against Bayern Munich."
I said just one sentence...
"Precisely because we don't have a chance,
precisely because everybody is saying that... that's our chance."
- ANNOUNCER: The showpiece showdown of the season.
It's Bayern Munchen against Eintracht Frankfurt.
- Everyone wants to beat Bayern Munich.
I have to say on that day...
Eintracht Frankfurt had to win
even if Bayern Munich were the opposition.
- I think 99% of people believed that Bayern
would win the match against Eintracht.
I believe that nothing is certain in football.
- ANNOUNCER: It's the crowning showpiece of the season,
the DFB-Pokal Final, 2018 is underway.
Eintracht Frankfurt's looking to write their names
in the history books.
- Frankfurt played bravely, they weren't afraid.
They tried to make chances.
- ANNOUNCER: For the moment, it's Eintracht Frankfurt
who are doing the attacking.
- They didn't freeze before the mighty Bayern.
- ANNOUNCER: Rebic spundles Thiago off the ball,
and he's created a chance for himself, is that a-- Rebic!
(crowd cheers)
Eintracht Frankfurts lead one nil.
That wasn't the start Bayern were expecting.
It's Thomas Muller!
(crowd cheers)
Here's Niklas Sule.
Kimmich.
Oh, and Lewandowski, has he got iced?
Corner for Bayern, pummels with a header off the bar!
Bayern had a lot of possession...
but we were trying to make the most
of the few opportunities we had.
That's what we were thinking.
- ANNOUNCER: Rebic's through, he's on his own against two.
Ante Rebic will have to do this one all by himself!
- I believe that there are opportunities everywhere.
- ANNOUNCER: Da Costa, now Rebic, could run again.
- It's whether you are ready and prepared to take them.
(crowd roars)
And Rebic puts Frankfurt ahead!
(crowd cheers)
- In the last few minutes the team could feel it,
you could hear it in the stadium, the noise was growing.
You could see that our fans were slowly starting to believe
that we could actually win.
- ANNOUNCER: The time is at an end,
all or nothing now for Bayern.
The Bayern players crowding around the referee.
Was it a penalty?
- Honestly, at the time, it felt like my heart was going to stop.
(suspenseful music)
- The moment he ran to the TV screen
to check if it was a penalty...
We're thinking, okay, he's gonna give it,
so then they're gonna obviously score.
- The stadium was completely quiet.
At a moment like that, time just stands still.
The referee turned away from the screen,
put the whistle to his lips,
and I thought to myself, "Oh well, it's a penalty."
- (whistle blows) - Called it, no penalty.
A let off for Frankfurt, the relief.
(crowd cheers)
- Something in the universe was on our side
and told the referee not to blow for a penalty.
- He could've given it, and he didn't,
so luck was on our side.
- That was definitely the decisive moment of the match.
If the referee had given the penalty,
that would have been 2-2, the match would have gone to extra time.
Then you have to be realistic,
things would have been difficult.
Small moments in life can decide things,
and end up being pretty big.
- RAPHAEL: If your perspective is big enough,
you will find always ways of saying this is karma,
this is yin and yang, this is us getting the decisions
we didn't get 25 years earlier.
And maybe it's a very good philosophical stance
to deal with these ups and downs in football,
but I think over the course of a game, or even a season,
you cannot be quite as assured
that things even themselves out.
Luck actually does play a big role.
(uplifting music)
- ANNOUNCER: Still they have a corner, though.
(whistle blows)
And now Frankfurt can break!
And Ulreich is out of his goal!
And Frankfurts are gonna win it here!
(crowd cheers)
- When Gacinovic made it 3-1,
the whole team ran with him to the goal,
and everybody was happy.
These moments are a part of football.
- ANNOUNCER: And this is a night that will live long in the memory.
Bayern one, Frankfurt three.
- I think that Eintracht Frankfurt, the city,
the fans, all of them deserved it.
On that day Frankfurt were destined to win,
and it wasn't just down to luck.
Just look at the two goals of Ante Rebic,
those weren't lucky goals, he wasn't just lucky.
(crowd roars)
- Eintracht Frankfurt!
(uplifting orchestral music)
- You've waited for it thirty years.
Thirty years!
We surprised people and drove around in a car with the cup.
"No, no, I can't believe it, the German cup..." But yes, it's your cup.
You all won it, you all waited so long for it.
I think this is magic. You can't express it with words.
I saw so many people crying.
Old and young, women, children...
old men were saying, "At last I can touch it... the cup."
Here are your cup heroes...
your team...
Eintracht Frankfurt!
(crowd chants)
We had our chance and we took it, we won the cup and gave it to Frankfurt.
Luck is one thing, but fighting... they really wanted it.
Right now we feel like we're in seventh heaven.
It's a wonderful moment and we're going to enjoy it.
The best champagne with the best sex is nothing compared to that.
(inspirational orchestral music)
Without luck, nothing happens.
You have to do a lot, really do a lot, and put a lot in to make your luck.
- DAVID: At some point in every must-win football match,
all you can rely on is luck.
Your sort of plan has disappeared, all you can do
is try and generate as much randomness as possible
and hope that the randomness goes in your direction.
- MATA: All you can do is what is in your hands,
and what is in your hand is to try to be as ready as you can
for everything that can happen.
But it's impossible to be ready
for everything that is going to happen.
- COLLIMA: You can minimize the relevance, the importance of luck
by preparing yourself.
But as we are human being, we cannot control everything.
- MARTIN: There is some chance involvement in these decisions
that decide, in some cases, your whole life.
One philosopher said that this is a thing
that makes football attractive.
It's a mirror of our lives.
- ROBERTO: There is this theory that over a year,
the good decisions and the bad decisions,
the fortunes and the misfortunes, even itself out.
I'm not sure that's actually correct.
It always goes the way it has to go.
It always ends the way it has to end.
You could say we're almost favourites today. - Yes, you could say that.
Okay, but Bayern have also improved a bit recently.
(crowd chants)
- ANNOUNCER: Lewandowski, he cuts it back, suddenly he's there again!
Here comes trouble.
Ribery goes for the one two.
Doesn't hit it properly,
and it comes off the woodwork again!
Sule comes round to Lewandowski, into the box!
The cross has come in, and the cross has gone in!
The fascination of the game...
the fascination of what happens in it, the emotions...
the laughter and the tears, the belief and the waiting...
takes away a lot...
and allows me to forget a lot.
I love football.
(dramatic orchestral music)