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·22 May 2025

Spurs lift a trophy: How the world looked last time 🏆

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This article was translated into English by Artificial Intelligence. You can read the original version in 🇩🇪 here.

Tottenham Hotspur is not exactly known as a title winner. The Spurs had so often come up short in the battle for silverware that winning the Europa League against Manchester United in Bilbao last night seems a bit unreal.

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The trauma surrounding the empty trophy cabinet has been put aside a bit. But how long has it been? This is what the world looked like the last time Tottenham could celebrate a title.

  1. Matthias Sammer and Lothar Matthäus had more Ballon d'or trophies in their cabinet than Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo.
  1. Otto Rehhagel's Greece was still the reigning European champion.
  1. The most expensive transfer in history was still Zinédine Zidane with 77.5 million euros, which Real Madrid paid to Juventus.
  1. Zenit St. Petersburg, and especially Pavel Pogrebnyak, thrashed FC Bayern 5-1 in the semifinals and went on to win the UEFA Cup that same year.
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  1. Borussia Dortmund's most expensive new signing of the aforementioned season was Mladen Petric with a transfer fee of 3.5 million euros.
  1. Borussia Mönchengladbach, TSG 1899 Hoffenheim, and 1. FC Köln were promoted to the Bundesliga.
  1. A certain Kevin-Prince Boateng still played for the Spurs.
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📸 Mike Hewitt - 2008 Getty Images

  1. Gareth Bale was still primarily used as a left-back at Tottenham.
  1. Heiko Westermann, Marko Marin, Serdar Tasci, and Jermaine Jones made their debut for the German national team that same year.
  1. The current German FIFA cover featured Ronaldinho and Miroslav Klose.
  1. "No Country for Old Men" swept the Oscars, and "The Dark Knight" grossed nearly a billion euros at the box office.
  1. Timbaland and OneRepublic landed the biggest hit of the year with "Apologize", and Schnuffel's Kuschel Song drove parents of small children crazy.
  1. Touchscreens for mobile phones were THE innovation, and the Samsung SGH-F480, along with the Nokia N95 8GB, were the bestsellers of the year.
  1. "Finanzkrise" (financial crisis) was chosen as the word of the year in Germany. For the first time, there was also a youth word of the year - Gammelfleischparty (a party with rotten meat).

Whoever hasn't figured it out by now, especially with Heiko Westermann, the Spurs last celebrated a title in 2008 when they won the League Cup in England.

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