Manchester City and Inter Milan advance to the Champions League final and the chance for World Cup and Champions League double

The Champions Final is scheduled to take place on June 10 in Istanbul, Turkey.

The duo, Julian Alvarez, Manchester City striker, and Inter Milan star Lataro Martinez, have an opportunity to enter the list of greats crowned with the World Cup and the European Champions League in the same year.

Thus, one of them guarantees that he will be the first Argentine to achieve that achievement in the same year, which Lionel Messi or Diego Armando Maradona failed to achieve, as the list includes players from 3 nationalities, namely France, Germany and Brazil, while Real Madrid and Bayern Munich players dominated that achievement.

The Argentine national team succeeded in winning the World Cup for the third time in the history of Tango, last December at Lusail Stadium in Qatar, after defeating France on penalties.

The list of greats includes 10 players, including 4 players in the modern version of the Champions League.

Raphael Varane

The French defender succeeded in crowning the double after winning the Champions League with Real Madrid by 3-1 in the final match against Liverpool, England, in 2018.

After that, Varane succeeded in contributing to France’s crowning of the World Cup title for the second time in the history of the roosters, after defeating Croatia in the final match 4-2, in the tournament that was held on the Russian stadiums.

Sami Khedira

The German star succeeded in winning the Champions League in May 2014 with his team, Real Madrid, after defeating his neighbor Atletico Madrid by four goals to one goal, after the match extended to extra time.

Two months later, Khedira contributed to the German national team winning the World Cup at the expense of Argentina, with a clean goal, in the final match, in the tournament that was held in Brazil 2014.

Roberto Carlos

The Brazilian full-back succeeded in leading Real Madrid to crown the European Champions League, after setting up a global goal scored by Zinedine Zidane in the royal double against Bayer Leverkusen in the match that ended 2-1, to crown Real at the time the ninth European title.

In the same year 2002, Carlos succeeded in crowning with Samba the last titles of Brazil in the World Cup that was held in South Korea and Japan, after defeating Germany in the final with two clean goals.

Christian Karembeu

Frenchman Karembeu contributed to Real Madrid’s crowning of the Champions League at the expense of Juventus, with a clean goal, to help his colleagues at the time grant the royals the seventh European title, after an absence of 32 years, for the title with the ears.

After that, Karembeu was included in the list of roosters crowned the World Cup for the first time in history, the tournament that was held in France, by winning the final match, at the expense of Brazil, by three goals.

Hexa Germany

“Sepp Meyer, Paul Breitner, Hans-Georg Schwarzenbeck, Franz Beckenbauer, Gerd Mueller, and Uli Hoeness”… Bayern Munich’s six-time champions, Champions League and World Cup doubles.

The hexagon of West Germany legends succeeded at the time in leading Bayern Munich to crown the European Champions Clubs Cup (the old version of the Champions League) after winning the final match at the expense of Atletico Madrid 4-0.

In the same year, the hexagon succeeded in leading West Germany to crown the World Cup by winning the final match at the expense of the Netherlands 2-1.