Olympique Lyonnais: The Champions League trailblazers

里昂奥林匹克队:欧冠先锋

The Documentary Podcast

社会与文化

2025-04-16

49 分钟
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Olympique Lyonnais is the most successful club in women’s football, dominating Europe over the last 15 years winning eight Champions League titles. Only Barcelona have recently been able to compete. Lyon's success is the vision of club president Jean-Michel Aulas who wanted to create an iconic team, with the best players, but in the case of Aulas he also promised to ensure both male and female players were treated equally. This included the first mixed football training academy. In Olympique Lyonnais: The Champions League trailblazers we find out the story of how the French club raised the standard of women’s football, going behind the scenes with striker and Ballon d’Or winner Ada Hegerberg, Chelsea and England defender Lucy Bronze and France and Lyon captain Wendie Renard who have all witnessed huge success and then change with Europe’s elite catching up. Now South Korean born businesswoman Michele Kang has taken over the the French giants, with big ambitions for the club. Photo: Players of Olympique Lyonnais celebrate after winning during the UEFA Women's Champions League final match between FC Barcelona and Olympique Lyonnais at Juventus Stadium on May 21, 2022 in Turin, Italy. (Credit: Ciancaphoto Studio/Getty Images)
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  • Welcome to Leon, home to the most successful club in women's football, Olympique Lyonnais.

  • A star-studded team that was a step ahead of the rest in Europe.

  • From 2016, they were dominant.

  • They went where no club had gone before, winning an unprecedented five European Champions League titles in a row,

  • a record only matched by the great Real Madrid men's team of the 1950s.

  • So what does it take to win the Champions League?

  • Belief?

  • Like, we felt untouchable in that period and it took a lot of, a lot of things.

  • It wasn't easy at all, but we were just brutal.

  • Like, we were going into every game thinking we're going to win this.

  • A visionary owner?

  • I mean, this guy was ahead of his time for sure in women's football.

  • You know, you look now and people say about investing in sport.

  • He was the first one to do it.

  • Talent and a winning mentality?

  • This is Olympic Lyonnais.

  • You don't lose and you are angry and you are just unsatisfied in every way if we fall short of that.

  • The team was, yeah, it was like a Galactico team when I first joined.

  • It was an unbelievable experience.