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Champions League - How good is Fergie?Alex Ferguson won the battle of managerial wits to secure his second Champions League triumph, but just how good a gaffer is he? Eurosport takes a look back over his remarkable career.
Ferguson spoke in disbelief after Manchester United's Champions League win over Chelsea on penalties, saying it was "the first shoot-out I've won in a big game".
The Glaswegian has collected so many major honours he clearly has scant regard for his three Community Shield shootout wins - two of those coming against Chelsea.
Ferguson, or Sir Alex since receiving a knighthood for his first European Cup victory in 1999, has achieved unparalleled success in the British game during his 21 years at the helm at Old Trafford.
He has never made a secret of his passion for European football, and his buoyant mood in the build-up to continental matches is often in contrast to his dour exterior as he goes about his domestic business.
For all his multiple league and cup doubles, the 66-year-old has always strived to emulate the European Cup final he saw at Hampden Park in 1960, when a Real Madrid side at the peak of their powers beat Eintracht Frankfurt 7-3.
His first taste of European success came at the expense of the Spanish giants, during his time as boss of Aberdeen, when he his side beat them 2-1 to lift the 1983 European Cup Winners Cup.
He also temporarily broke the Old Firm's stranglehold on Scottish football, winning the league title three times during his eight-year tenure at Pittodrie.
In 1986 he joined United, but it took him four years to deliver silverware, something that in today's managerial merry-go-round would surely have seen him sacked.
But, after winning the FA Cup in 1990, and marking British football's return to Europe the following year by grabbing his second Cup-winners' Cup, the trophies just kept on coming.
The league title returned to Old Trafford in 1993, and that was followed by the double in the following season.
Throughout the 1990s, United were the dominant force in English football, with two more doubles. In doing so, Ferguson assembled a young side of homegrown talent that featured Ryan Giggs, Paul Scholes, David Beckham and Gary Neville, as well some of the best foreign players in the world in Peter Schmeichel and Eric Cantona.
After Arsene Wenger's Arsenal side made their own claim for greatness by capturing the double in 1998, Ferguson went one better with the unprecedented, and still unmatched, treble of league, FA Cup and European Cup the following year.
The fiery Scot has always staunchly refused to back down from the standards he sets himself and expects of others, which has led him into many conflicts. He sold Jaap Stam, at the time arguably the best defender in the world, after the Dutchman published a book revealing his thoughts on the manager.
He sold the world's most famous footballer, David Beckham, because he felt that the showbiz lifestyle of the midfielder was affecting his football and reflecting badly on the club. And, even now, he still refuses to talk to the BBC after the corporation broadcast a documentary portraying his agent son Jason in a bad light.
After winning a seventh league title in 2001, he announced he would retire the following season, only to reverse that decision when the club fell so far behind Arsenal, who again won the double, that he could not bear to leave the club in such a state.
As Chelsea burst into the top level of the English game courtesy of their owner's millions and won back-to-back Premier League titles, Ferguson was rebuilding his side. He still retained many of the same English players that had served him so well in the mid-nineties, and combined them with a new generation of attacking talent, including Cristiano Ronaldo and Wayne Rooney.
This new side reclaimed the league in 2007, and after fending off Chelsea to retain the title again this season, Alex Ferguson's 21st year in charge at Old Trafford was capped off with their dramatic victory over the west Londoners in Moscow.
The fact that he has no new plans to retire shows the depth of character, invention and longevity that make Alex Ferguson one of the most successful managers in football history.
Below is a complete list of all of Ferguson's major honours, along with those of some of the game's other high achievers.
ALEX FERGUSON
Aberdeen (1978 - 1986)Scottish League: (3) 1979-80, 1983-84, 1984-85
Scottish Cup: (4) 1981-82, 1982-83, 1983-84, 1985-86
Scottish League Cup: (1) 1985-86
European Cup Winners Cup: (1) 1982-83
UEFA Super Cup: (1) 1983-84
Manchester United (1986 - present)Premier League: (10) 1992-93, 1993-94, 1995-96, 1996-97, 1998-99, 1999-00, 2000-01, 2002-03, 2006-07, 2007-08
FA Cup: (5) 1989-90, 1993-94, 1995-96, 1998-99, 2003-04
League Cup: (2) 1991-92, 2005-06
Community Shield: (7) 1990 (shared), 1993, 1994, 1996, 1997, 2003, 2007
Champions League: (2) 1998-99, 2007-08
European Cup Winners Cup: (1) 1990-91
Intercontinental Cup: (1) 1999
UEFA Supercup: (1) 1991-92
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BOB PAISLEYLiverpool (1974-1983)First Division: (6) 1975-76, 1976-77, 1978-79, 1979-80, 1981-82, 1982-83
League Cup: (3) 1980-81, 1981-82, 1982-83
European Cup: (3) 1976-77, 1977-78, 1980-81
UEFA Cup: (1) 1975-76
European Super Cup: (1) 1977-78
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GIOVANNI TRAPATONNIJuventus (1976-86, 1991-94)Serie A: (6) 1976-77, 1977-78, 1980-81, 1981-82, 1983-84, 1985-86
Coppa Italia: (2) 1978-79, 1982-83
European Cup: (1)1984-85
Cup Winners Cup: (1) 1983-84
UEFA Cup: (2) 1976-77, 1992-93
European Super Cup: (1) 1994
Intercontinental Cup: (1) 1985
Internazionale (1986-91)Serie A (1): 1988-89
UEFA Cup: (1) 1990-91
Bayern Munich (1994-95, 1996-98)Bundesliga: (1) 1996-97
German Cup: (1) 1997-98
Benfica (2004-05)Superliga: (1) 2004-05
Red Bull Salzburg (2006-07)Austrian Bundesliga: (1) 2006-07
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FABIO CAPELLO
Milan (1991-96, 1997-98)Serie A: (4) 1991-92, 1992-93, 1993-94, 1995-96
Italian Super Cup: (3) 1992, 1993, 1994
Champions League: (1) 1993-94
European Super Cup: (1) 1994
Real Madrid (1996-96, 2006-07)La Liga: (2) 1996-96, 2006-07
Roma (1999-2004)Serie A: (1) 2000-01
Italian Super Cup: (1) 2000-01
Juventus (2004-06)Serie A: (2) 2004-05, 2005-06 Juventus were stripped of both titles after being found guilty of match-fixing
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