The David versus Goliath angle is used far too often in sports, but sometimes it's there kicking you in the face, and you can't ignore it. This year's Champions League final is one of those times. In one corner, we have Real Madrid, possibly the most successful soccer club in the planet's history.
Real Madrid won La Liga for the 36th time this season and will now try to win the Champions League for the 15th time. No other club has won more than seven (AC Milan). Hell, Real Madrid have more Champions League finals (three) than all but seven other clubs have won in this competition's history.
In the other corner, Borussia Dortmund. Now, the David analogy isn't perfect for Dortmund because it's not as though this is some tiny club without history. Dortmund won the Champions League in 1997 and lost a Champions League final to Bayern Munich in 2013.
That said, Dortmund haven't won the Bundesliga since 2012 and finished fifth in the league this season. So, it's the greatest club in the history of the world versus the fifth-place team in Germany. It's a wild matchup that nobody would've predicted at the beginning of the competition, but I don't want to diminish Dortmund's accomplishments.
For all their problems at home, Dortmund advanced out of the "Group of Death" in group play, winning Group F over PSG, AC Milan and Newcastle United. It then got through Atlético Madrid and PSG again in the knockout stages. It's not here by accident, but can it pull off the unthinkable? Saturday,.
