The Champions League resumes Tuesday at Manchester United where one of the competition’s most storied clubs is mourning its all-time great Bobby Charlton. Charlton died Saturday aged 86. He survived the fatal air crash at Munich in February 1958 that devastated the then-champion of England on its journey home from a European Cup game.
Manchester United players observe a minute of silence in honour of late English soccer legend Bobby Charlton and for the victims of the Israeli-Hamas war before the English Premier League soccer match between Sheffield United and Manchester United at Bramall Lane in Sheffield, England, Saturday, Oct. 21, 2023.
Charlton “was a hero to millions,” the club said in a statement. “Not just in Manchester, or the United Kingdom, but wherever football is played around the world.” Charlton was thrown clear of the wreckage and suffered only minor injuries in an accident that eventually took the lives of 23 of the 44 people on board.in the 1968 European Cup final at Wembley Stadium. England’s national stadium in London stages the next Champions League final on June 1.Manchester United started this Champions League campaign in Munich and it has not been a happy return after playing last season in the second-tier Europa League.
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