We may never know what referee Nicola Rizzoli thought in that first moment. Was he dreaming or was it some sort of awful joke? What we do know is that in the middle of the first half, a German player suddenly came up to him and asked, “Is this really the final? Sorry, I have to know.” But Christoph Kramer wasn’t trying to get one over on the Italian – he’d had a blackout after a major collision with Ezequiel Garay.
“I can remember everything up to the 17th minute and everything after half-time,” said Kramer of a final probably even more memorable for him than for his team-mates. Thankfully, the tale has a happy ending and he recovered in time to join in the celebrations. “I’m also a bit fuzzy on what happened at the party after, but for different reasons!”
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