Milan Galic, member of the famous Partizan's "babies"

Missed opportunity of talented generation

In the European Champions' Cup final match 1966 at Haysel stadium in Brussels, team of Partizan Belgrade - a generation of famous 'babies', leading by goalkeeper Soskic, Jusufi, Vasovic, Galic - met with Real Madrid, which was only a shadow of a team that, with Di Stefano, Puskas, Kopa and Gento, won five successive European Champions' Cup titles in the period between 1956 and 1960.

Real was harmless at the beginning, Partizan was more concrete and took a lead through Vasovic. Later on during the match, Amancio scored the first goal for Real, while Serena by second goal used total confusion of the rival. The "kings" club from Madrid provided itself a title of the strongest and most respected European club's competition for the sixth time.

It was the greatest and in the same the last opportunity of talented generation of Partizan to confirm its domination, not only in Yugoslav, but also in the European football. A great number of players of Belgrade team left the club at the end of the season, and Velibor Vasovic, who scored the only goal in the final match, few years later felt the satisfactory when he received the European Champions' Cup trophy as a captain of Dutch team Ajax.

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