Daniel Amokachi scored the first goal of the UEFA Champions League with Club Brugge on 25 November 1992, beating CSKA Moscow 1–0. His goal would go on to decide the game as the game ended 1-0 in favour of his team.
Marseille whent on to win the first champions league in 1993, defeating Milan, and becoming the first team to win the Champions League and the first European champions from France. Marseille won 1-0.
Ivorian-born Marseille defender Basile Boli score the only goal of the game in the 43rd minute with a header to give l'OM their first European Cup title. It was the first time that a French team had won the European Cup, and no French side has won the trophy since.
The final, which followed the second-ever UEFA Champions League group stage, saw Ivorian-born Marseille defender
Basile Boli score the only goal of the match in the 43rd minute with a header to give l'OM their first European Cup title. It was the first time a French team had won the European Cup. No French side apart from Monaco-based AS Monaco , which played in French league system – has gone to the final since, let alone won the trophy. Marseille and their club president Bernard Tapie would later be found to have been involved in a match-fixing scandal during the 1992–93 season (in which Marseille allegedly paid Valenciennes to lose a match), which saw them relegated to Division 2 and banned from participation in European football for the following season. As the scandal affected only French league matches, Marseille's status as 1993 European champion was not affected.
The first ever Champions League final turned out to be the last game of Milan's highly accomplished but injury-prone Dutch forward Marco van Basten , who was 28 at the time; having been subbed off in the 86th minute due to fatigue and yet another ankle injury, he would spend the next two years in recovery before announcing his retirement in August 1995.
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