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10 Players Who Won The UEFA Champions League Without Doing Much

10 Players Who Won The UEFA Champions League Without Doing Much

Top footballers are often judged on how they fared in the UEFA Champions League during their career, but here are 10 players who managed to lift the coveted trophy even though they hardly contributed to the success.

Click through the gallery above to see 10 players who picked up the UCL trophy without doing much to get there!

Winning Europe's biggest club competition is a dream for almost every footballer in the world, and it is not one that many achieve, with even Zlatan Ibrahimovic and Ronaldo Nazario, who are widely considered greats of the game, unable to say they have got their hands on the famous trophy.

Former Real Madrid back-up goalkeeper Kiko Casilla, however, has three Champions League winner's medals to his name, despite appearing in the competition on just five occasions in his entire career.

The 34-year-old, who is currently the second-choice shot-stopper at Leeds United in the Premier League, lifted the prestigious trophy in 2016, 2017 and 2018, proving that perhaps judging a player on his silverware count is not always fair.

Despite being an undoubted all-time great, Ryan Giggs featured for just 401 minutes of Manchester United's 2007/08 Champions League-winning campaign, starting four times and coming on as a substitute on five occasions.

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Giggs, though, is one of the record appearance makers in the competition's history, but did not play much of a hand in Sir Alex Ferguson's second European cup win. Click through the gallery above to see some more players who lifted the prize without contributing an awful lot!

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