Colossal joke in the Champions League! They put the wrong hymn, all the players started laughing
Article by Maria Olteanu – published Wednesday, April 16, 2025, 00:22 / Updated Wednesday, April 16, 2025 01:15
Aston Villa received it on their own ground on PSGTuesday evening, in the return of the quarterfinals of the Champions League. The match started with a huge joke of the organizers, who were wrong from the beginning of this duel.
Villa Park rang, to the surprise of those present, the Europa League anthem, the second value competition on the continent, instead of the Champions League anthem.
Proportions gaf in the Champions League
An incredible mistake was made before the start of the second sleeve of the Champions League quarters, between Aston Villa and Paris Saint-Germain, played on Tuesday evening.
The host team started with a disadvantage of two goals after the Paris game, won by PSG with 3-1, but had hopes that he could achieve the remontade in front of his fans in the return duel. It turned out that he had enough arguments to hope for this, turning fabulous and giving up, generally, score 4-5.
The atmosphere was electrifying before the start of the duel on Tuesday, with a full stadium that made its presence in Birmingham. But it was not a promising start from those responsible for the audio system of the stadium, who committed it seriously, making everyone present and ask questions.
After the teams went out on the ground, they aligned in front of the main stand, preparing to play the Champions League anthem, a classic moment before the starting whistle.
Only … he didn't sound. Instead, the Europa League anthem was played, a competition in which Aston Villa has not played for almost 15 years, the last participation being in the 2010-2011 season.
The players of both teams remained standing, witnesses of an embarrassing moment, while the wrong music was heard.
Vitinha was seen on the transmission while making jokes with colleagues around him, and Tielemans and Ezri Konsi were visibly struggling to hide their laughter before the protagonists greet themselves at the center of the field.
“Someone failed with the Champions League anthem“Said the commentator Amazon Prime, Jon Champion, while the music was heard. “It's not what we expected to hear.”
Later, he added: “better later than ever,” after the correct anthem was finally played. Meanwhile, the fans did not end up showing their dissatisfaction and has been arranged for the Europa League.
All these painful moments happened under Prince William's eyespresent in one of the stadium lodges.
