Biography of tragic UEFA Champions League - Eternal Watcher by the Throne

When the horn of "Champions League" resounds throughout the green temple, the spotlight is always chasing the crown of the new king. However, on the back of the cheers, there are always some names engraved with ditches of fate - they may have touched the door knocker of heaven, or looked at the stars for life, but in front of the monument of the Champions League, they turned into incomplete sculptures outside the Thousand Years Temple. Time is not a cure here, but an hourglass that keeps flowing backwards: 26 years, 20 years, back-to-back finals, and three-defeat reincarnation... The other side of the glorious epic is Arsenal's unfired bullets, Atletico Madrid's chest torn in stoppage time, and bitter wine that has been filled with 24 years of sensational wine. At this moment, let us open the hottest chapters in the history of football and walk into these "Eternal Watchmen by the Throne".

Arsenal: Never won the cup!

—The 20-year Champions League final failed, and the muzzle of North London was always missing a deadly bullet.

Atletico Madrid: Third-time finals, return to zero championships!

—In 2014, Ramos tied the stoppage time and collapsed in overtime; in 2016, he hated the penalty kick, and Simeone's iron blood turned into tears.

Dortmund: 26-year championship drought!

—After reaching the top in 1997, Robben was defeated in the 2013 Wembley final, and the yellow and black waves in the South Stand never overwhelmed the trophy.

Lyon: Ligue 1 has dominated the seventh consecutive time, and has won the Champions League in zero championship!

- He once beat Real Madrid and Bayern to the semi-finals, but eventually became an uncrowned passerby under the label of "dark horse".

Valencia: The sorrow of the two Asians, waiting for 24 years!

—The back-to-back finals in 2000 and 2001 failed, and the glory of the Bat Legion was frozen in the sigh at the turn of the century.

This is the cruelest romance of football: some people spend their entire lives failing to ignite the sacred fire (Arsenal), some people fall into the abyss three times (Atletico Madrid), and some people exchange a meteor scratch with the heat of the whole city (Dorte). They are like Sisyphus in Greek mythology, pushing the huge rocks to the top of the Champions League year after year, and watching it roll into the mortal world. But this endless struggle itself has carved out the dignity beyond the champion - when Lyon's youth storm tear apart the Galaxy battleship, when Valencia's wings set off the Mediterranean roar, when Simeone's roar shatters the arrogance of the Bernabeu... These moments have long surpassed the measurement of the trophy and turned into the most tragic totem of football faith.

Perhaps, only by carrying the weight of tears can the crown truly immortal.