Aberdeen '83: Once In A Lifetime | BBC Scotland
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- čas přidán 12. 05. 2023
- As Aberdeen Football Club celebrates the 40th anniversary of winning the European Cup Winners' Cup, former team members and manager Sir Alex Ferguson recall how they achieved glory in Gothenburg.
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I’m surprised there are no comments yet. Aye, Aberdeen we’re some outfit early 1980s. As a Rangers fan & young laddie from Glasgow, I even had the Aberdeen European Cup Winners Cup football top which was a very sought after item I recall. Scotland did produce cracking players then.🏴💪
Just remember, he took a mid-level team that only won the league once and won the league three times.
I get that the game has changed since the 80s however this is why SAF is the goat for me - as he has proved it at a club that he had almost no money and resources to win, if Pep and Klopp are better managers, then why dont they go and manage a club that has no money and try and win league titles and a European trophy or two?
The best manager of all time
Incredible days, and an incredible team. We would've taken on and been confident of beating any team in World football at that time. This is the greatest achievement of any Scottish team. Celtic and Rangers are Goliaths of Scottish football, qualified for Europe far more often than not and have failed miserably time after time. Those two should've been expecting to win European trophies, particularly in the 60's and 70's. Aberdeen were and are a wee provincial team, a proud, solid history, but like the majority of teams in Scotland, not many trophies to shout about. This side defeated the greatest name in German football and went on to hammer the greatest name in World football in the space of a couple of months. There can't be any debate about it. This is Scotlands crowning glory on the continent, bar none.
The GREATEST manager thats ever lived!!
Alex, a man with points to prove who proved them 👌🫶🏻👍🙌🏻
Awesome atmosphere at Pittodrie this weekend
heart still misses a beat watching that ball hit the net 40 years later ; was only at super cup 2nd leg v Hamburg ; felt a bit 'charity shield' in comparison - still a stars a star
Scotlands most successful team in Europe
Asking as a fan who wasn’t alive in 1983, was the cup winners cup equivalent to what the champions league or was it more like today’s Europa league? Either way, a great achievement by Aberdeen and the legendary sir Alex
I don't agree. For a start, I was born after the Lisbon lions won the European cup but every Celtic supporter is rightly proud of that achievement. Same with Aberdeen. The majority of aberdeen supporters will have been born after 1983 but does that mean they shouldn't be proud of that achievement? Of course not. It's not a case of crowing about anything. Also, I think you're doing Aberdeen a disservice calling them a ' wee provincial team'. Certainly in the late 70s and well into the 80s, they were major players in Scottish and European football. Thanks of course to the appointment of the great Alex Ferguson as manager. He spent a few years building that team into what they would finally become. I for one even as a celtic fan, would welcome back those days when there was a genuine challenge to the Glasgow giants domestically. It would be for the overall benefit of the Scottish game. However as everybody says nowadays, it is what it is.